Cyera, the fastest-growing data security company, announced the launch of Cyera Research Labs on September 25, 2025, a dedicated arm providing data-driven guidance at the AI-data security intersection. Coinciding with this is the release of its flagship 2025 State of AI Data Security Report, surveyed with CyberSecurity Insiders among 900+ IT/security leaders, exposing a stark readiness gap: 83% of enterprises use AI, yet only 13% have strong visibility into AI-sensitive data interactions.
The report, aligned to OWASP LLM risks, reveals AI's rapid integration outpacing safeguards: While 83% deploy AI, visibility lags critically, with 76% viewing autonomous agents as the toughest to secure and 21% defaulting to broad data access. Incidents are common—66% detected over-access—but remediation is rare, with only 11% auto-blocking and 16% treating AI as a distinct identity class. Governance immaturity persists: Just 7% have dedicated committees, and 11% feel prepared for regulations like EU AI Act.
A poignant anecdote: A sales manager flagged an AI copilot "magically" accessing a pricing deck—not a breach, but unchecked default access highlighting prompt-layer blind spots.
“These findings confirm what we’ve been hearing in the field from CISOs, CDOs, and other security professionals: AI adoption is outpacing governance, visibility, and controls,” said Shiran Bareli, VP of Research at Cyera. “Too often, the discussion centers on the power of AI and the benefits it brings to the organization without equal focus on the data it consumes and exposes. With Cyera Research Labs, we want to bring data to the forefront of these conversations and highlight the pressing challenges security teams are grappling with every day.”
As data security markets grow from $150.4B (2024) to $505B (2032), Cyera's $6B valuation (June 2025) and $1.3B funding position it to lead AI-native protection. The report's takeaways—covering adoption to governance—offer a pragmatic roadmap, urging CISOs to prioritize visibility and controls amid 78% organizational AI use (McKinsey 2025).
At Cyera Research Labs, we focus on the story data tells. Our team of researchers, scientists, and cloud experts analyzes how data is created, accessed, and shared to uncover emerging threats and AI-driven risks. Every insight we publish blends rigorous analysis with practical guidance, empowering organizations to protect and govern their data with confidence.
Cyera is the world’s leading AI-native data security platform, giving organizations a complete view of where their data lives, how it’s used, and how to keep it safe, so they can reduce risk and unlock the full value of their data, wherever it is. Cyera is backed by more than $1.3 billion in funding from top-tier investors including Accel, Coatue, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia. The company’s unified data security platform helps businesses discover, secure, and leverage their most valuable asset - data - and eliminate blind spots, cut alert noise, and protect sensitive information across the cloud, SaaS, databases, AI ecosystems, and on-premise environments. Recent innovations like Cyera’s AI Guardian solution and Omni DLP extend this platform with adaptive, AI-native data loss protection, bringing real-time intelligence and contextual understanding to how data moves and is used across the enterprise.
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