Making Security Data-Aware with New Integration from Cato Networks and Cyera

Executive Summary

Today, Cato Networks announced an integration of Cato XOps with the Cyera AI-native Data Security Platform Management (DSPM). The integration brings Cyera’s data security telemetry directly into Cato XOps, giving security teams visibility into the sensitivity and exposure of data involved in security events.

In today’s distributed environments, data lives across the cloud, SaaS, endpoint, and network. Traditional security tools monitor activity, but rarely understand data sensitivity or the potential business impact.

Security teams are overwhelmed with alerts yet often lack the most critical piece of context: whether sensitive data is at risk. An anomaly is detected. A user behaves suspiciously. A workload is exposed. But key questions remain:

• Is sensitive data involved?
• Are crown jewels at risk?
• Is this a minor policy violation or a material business threat?

By ingesting Cyera’s data security telemetry into Cato XOps, organizations gain near real-time data intelligence within detection, investigation, and response workflows.

The Value of the Cato-Cyera Integration

Cato Networks and Cyera: Unified Data and Operational Security

Cyera, a data security leader, discovers, classifies, and prioritizes sensitive data at rest across cloud, SaaS and on-premises environments. It identifies data exposure findings, maps data access paths, and highlights crown jewels across the enterprise. Crown jewels are an organization’s most critical and sensitive information assets, such as intellectual property, customer data, and core systems, whose compromise would result in severe financial, operational, or reputational impact.

Cato XOps unifies security and network operations by combining Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and Artificial Intelligence for AI Operations (AIOps) into a single operations framework. It correlates security and network telemetry from across the Cato SASE Platform to surface the most critical threats and operational issues, turning raw events into prioritized, actionable insights that accelerate detection and response.

Through the integration, Cyera’s data classification, sensitivity labels, findings, and access mappings are ingested directly into Cato XOps. This allows Cyera’s data security telemetry to be correlated with Cato’s endpoint security, cloud security, and network security telemetry in Cato XOps.

The result is clear and powerful: security decisions are driven by data sensitivity and business impact, not just activity signals.

Data-Aware Threat Detection & Response

Cato’s anomaly detection engine is now enriched with Cyera’s data sensitivity and crown jewel context. Security teams no longer ask only what happened. They understand what data was involved and the potential business impact. Alerts involving regulated data or high-value assets are automatically prioritized. Investigations immediately reveal the sensitivity of affected data and its business relevance. Detection evolves from signal-based analysis to risk-based detection informed by data sensitivity.

Identity Risk Meets Data Blast Radius

Cato continuously calculates user risk scores based on behavior across network, endpoint, SaaS, and cloud activity. By incorporating Cyera’s data access mapping, Cato correlates user risk with data sensitivity and permissions. Security teams can identify high-risk users with access to critical data and detect over-permissive access paths before they are exploited.

Instead of evaluating identity risk in isolation, organizations gain visibility into the potential blast radius and business impact. Identity risk management becomes directly aligned with data protection priorities.

Zero Trust Guided by Data Sensitivity

Cyera’s data access path analysis provides deep insight into who can access sensitive data and where exposure exists. Cato translates that intelligence into enforceable Zero Trust controls through the Cato SASE Platform. Organizations can segment sensitive data stores, restrict lateral movement, and reduce over-permissive access through consistent, cloud-delivered enforcement. Zero Trust becomes measurable, enforceable, and guided by data sensitivity and risk, rather than static policy assumptions.

Unified Investigation and One-Click Remediation

When an incident occurs, security analysts see the complete story in one place: network, cloud, and endpoint security telemetry from Cato and third-party sources, plus data security telemetry from Cyera. This unified view accelerates decision-making and reduces investigation time.

With enforcement embedded in the Cato platform, remediation is immediate. Security analysts can identify potential data security risks and take direct action, without the need to pivot across multiple security tools:

• Restrict risky users from accessing crown jewels
• Remove excessive access
• Enforce segmentation
• Block suspicious traffic

Conclusion

This integration marks the beginning of a broader shift toward data-aware security operations. By embedding data classification and exposure intelligence directly into operational workflows, Cato and Cyera enable organizations to protect their most valuable assets with greater precision and confidence.