Cyera launches tools to secure enterprise AI agents
Tue, 4th Aug 2026 (Today)
Cyera has launched Agent Guardian and Cyera Endpoint, products aimed at securing AI agents used across enterprise systems.
The launch comes amid a rise in non-human identities inside large organisations, which Cyera said increased by 480% in Fortune 500 companies over the past six months.
Agent Guardian is designed to identify AI agents operating across cloud services, software-as-a-service platforms and employee devices, including tools security teams may not know are in use. It also maps the data each agent can access and monitors actions taken between a user prompt and a system response.
Cyera Endpoint extends the same controls to employee devices, where local AI tools can operate outside standard network monitoring. It is intended to cover developer-focused products such as Claude Code and Cursor, which may handle sensitive work without crossing a corporate network boundary.
Growing exposure
The launch comes as companies expand their use of autonomous software tools that act with inherited permissions from human users. Cyera argues this creates a distinct security problem because agents can move through systems and data stores more quickly than employees while remaining hard to track with existing controls.
Agent Guardian is built around four functions: discovery of agents across environments, governance of what they are allowed to do, real-time protection against risky actions, and validation of controls through testing and reporting. Cyera said the system can operate inline during execution to block unauthorised data transfers, intercept tool calls and quarantine compromised agents before they run.
The product can also produce compliance reporting aligned with frameworks such as the EU AI Act. This reflects a wider push to show that AI systems can be governed in ways that meet security and regulatory requirements.
"AI agents have become a new class of enterprise identity. But the fundamental shift isn't that organizations have more identities; it's that the gap between permission and execution has disappeared," said Tamar Bar-Ilan, Co-founder and CTO of Cyera.
"Agent Guardian and Cyera Endpoint give organizations the visibility and runtime control to govern this new reality, enabling them to accelerate AI adoption without putting sensitive data at risk," Bar-Ilan said.
Platform coverage
The new products are intended to work across a broad set of AI environments, including enterprise software platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce and Snowflake Cortex AI, as well as cloud-based deployments on AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry and Vertex AI.
Policy enforcement can take place through platform application programming interfaces, AI gateways, browser extensions, framework hooks and remote scans of employee devices. The approach reflects the fragmented way AI agents are now being deployed inside companies, with some running centrally and others locally on laptops and workstations.
Security providers have increasingly focused on AI governance as businesses move from testing generative AI tools to embedding agents that can retrieve data, trigger actions and connect with other applications. Unlike chatbots limited to conversation, these systems can often query databases, move files or use third-party tools, raising concerns over unauthorised access, data leakage and privilege escalation.
Cyera, which focuses on data security, said the new products are intended to provide a single control layer across cloud, SaaS and endpoint environments. This would help security teams understand which agents are present, what information they can access and whether their behaviour matches their intended role.
Snowflake is among the companies referenced by Cyera in connection with the launch, highlighting the role of data platform providers in the wider AI security chain.
"AI is only as trustworthy as the data behind it," said Mayank Upadhyay, Chief Security and Trust Officer at Snowflake.
"Working with Cyera lets Snowflake customers see every Cortex AI agent in use and understand exactly what data it can access, so they can adopt agentic AI with the same confidence they place in their data," Upadhyay said.
Cyera said enterprises including Paramount, Chipotle and Valvoline use its platform. The company said it is valued at USD $12 billion and has raised more than USD $2.3 billion from investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed and Sequoia.