Sentra vs Cyera

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Why Enterprises Choose Sentra over Cyera

Advantage
Data Never Leaves Your Environment
>95% Classification Accuracy Using Rich Context

Scanning Across IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS, SaaS, and On-Prem

Significantly Lower Cloud Data Scanning Costs

Sentra
No Added Data Exposure

Scans and classifies data in your cloud - no data copied outside, no privacy risks, no compliance headaches.

Context-Aware = Confidence

Combines insight into the purpose of data, permissions, and access patterns to classify data with unmatched precision.

Coverage Without Compromise

Comprehensive visibility across multi-cloud and hybrid environments -$ all from a single platform.

Scales Smart, Not Expensive

10X scanning efficiency with minimal API calls = drastically lower compute and egress costs.

Cyera

Can require transferring data outside your environment for analysis.

Relies primarily on content and static rules - misses nuance, creates more false positives.

Limited on-prem and SaaS support; weaker coverage across structured and semi-structured systems.

Heavier scanning operations increase scan duration, cloud resource consumption, and infrastructure spend.

What Customers Are Saying About Sentra

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When sensitive data in our cloud data stores is duplicated or moved by engineers, we can now understand if that causes any security or compliance issues
The POC was incredible and going forward we feel this is crucial and somewhat irreplaceable for us
Agentless data classification from Sentra has been a huge help, now we can auto-classify sensitive data and prevent this data from being extracted

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Sentra's Data Security Platform

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Sentra's Data Security Platform

Sentra DSP empowers security teams to automatically classify sensitive data, assess risk, and remediate threats to every datastore and data asset across multiple cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments.

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Sensitive Data Classification Challenges

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Sensitive Data Classification Challenges

At the end of the day, you need to secure your sensitive data to prevent unintended disclosure or breaches. A simple and straightforward goal.Yet, the challenge persists – how can you accurately identify the sensitive data, its sensitivity level, data subjects residency, and gain sufficient business context to understand how it's being use

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Sentra for AI & ML

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Sentra for AI & ML

Gain visibility into AI agents and their data exposure. Automatically discover AI agents, map their knowledge sources and sensitive data connections, and track user interactions to uncover hidden risks.

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