Practice Data Minimization by Only Collecting, Processing, and Storing Necessary Data
Reduce your data attack surface by eliminating redundant, obsolete, and unnecessary data across environments.
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Eliminate Unnecessary Data Storage
Failure to delete redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data creates significant and unnecessary risks and costs. Cyera helps you continuously spot and securely eliminate the data that no longer serves a business, regulatory, or operational purpose.
Discover & Classify ROT Data at Scale
Identify redundant data across cloud and on-prem systems at scale so you can confidently remove what’s unnecessary and meet regulatory requirements.
Enforce Retention & Defensible Deletion
Automatically flag data retention issues to enforce defensible deletion and minimize unnecessary storage.
Retain Only Relevant, Compliant Data
Reduce data security and privacy risks by ensuring only relevant and compliant data is retained.
Data Minimization is a Modern Imperative
Most organizations retain far more data than they need, increasing vulnerability and cost, and contributing to a 12% loss in potential revenue. Cyera spots unnecessary data, helping you reduce your attack surface, enhance compliance, and optimize storage costs.
Only Backup Data That Matters
Focus backups on the data that truly matters. Identify outdated, irrelevant, or orphaned backups and remove what no longer serves a business or compliance purpose, reducing blind spots and unnecessary storage costs.
Find Dark Data in Unmanaged Drives
Locate, secure, and remove mismanaged cloud storage and personal drives containing sensitive or unnecessary data. Enforce policies that prevent data sprawl and reduce costs by retiring unused or misconfigured storage.
Optimize Spend by Identifying Unused VMs and Databases
Reduce storage and infrastructure costs by identifying unused resources you no longer need. Remove decommissioned systems and ensure only essential resources remain active to strengthen governance and lower spend.
FAQs
Cyera automatically scans cloud and on-prem data stores using agentless discovery and AI-powered classification. It analyzes content, context, sensitivity, and usage patterns to surface ROT data—including redundant files, stale records, orphaned backups, and unused instances—so you can confidently remove what’s unnecessary.
Yes. Cyera maps data assets to your organizational and regulatory retention requirements, flags violations, and recommends defensible deletion actions. This helps teams consistently remove unnecessary data while maintaining compliance with frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and internal governance policies.
Cyera uncovers data stored in unmanaged drives, personal storage, orphaned systems, and misconfigured cloud environments. By illuminating where sensitive or unnecessary data lives, Cyera enables you to remediate risk, eliminate shadow storage, and prevent new sources of data sprawl.
Cyera connects with your backup systems, data warehouses, ticketing tools, and security stack to streamline remediation and lifecycle management. It highlights unnecessary or outdated backups, identifies sensitive data stored in unmanaged copies, and helps align your retention policies with operational and regulatory requirements.
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