Seeing Clearly in the Age of Intelligent Data: How Bytes and Cyera Are Powering Secure AI Transformation
Wednesday 7th January 2026
As enterprises accelerate toward an AI driven future, one truth is becoming impossible to ignore: data is no longer just an asset, it is the fuel, the foundation, and increasingly the risk surface of modern innovation.
AI has evolved from a supporting tool into the nervous system of the digital enterprise, automating decisions, enhancing customer experiences, and unlocking new operational efficiencies. But with this shift comes a critical challenge facing every leadership team today:
How do we embrace AI’s potential without losing control of the data that powers it?
This question sits at the centre of the partnership between Bytes and Cyera, a collaboration designed to give organisations the clarity, context, and control they need to innovate securely.
The Data Visibility Crisis
The 2025 Cyera State of AI Data Security Report highlights a stark reality:
- 83% of enterprises already use AI
- Only 13% have clear visibility into where their sensitive data resides or how AI interacts with it
Despite years of investment in DLP, CASB, and data catalogues, most organisations still lack a complete picture of their data landscape. Traditional tools simply weren’t built for today’s environment, where:
- Data lives across cloud apps, SaaS platforms, shadow databases, and AI systems
- It moves constantly between humans, machines, and automated workflows
- It evolves faster than rule based classification can keep up
This is where Bytes and Cyera step in, delivering visibility and governance at the speed modern enterprises require.
Fixing Broken Data Discovery and Classification
One global enterprise spent a full year deploying a legacy discovery tool, installing agents, writing regex, tuning rules only to gain little meaningful insight.
Cyera changed that in 48 hours.
Its agentless DSPM platform scanned the environment and automatically identified 160 data classes, including 100 unique to the organisation’s intellectual property. The result wasn’t just speed, it was clarity.
When Bytes integrates these insights into its Zero Trust architecture and managed governance services, organisations gain:
- Audit readiness in weeks, not months
- Up to 80% reduction in manual classification costs
- 50% more sensitive data uncovered compared to legacy tools
As one CISO put it in the 2025 Cyera Report: “You can’t protect what you can’t see. If you don’t know what data your AI is running on, you’re not innovating, you’re gambling.”
Ending the DLP Alert Fatigue Crisis
Alert fatigue remains one of the biggest operational burdens for security teams. One enterprise running Microsoft Purview DLP was drowning under 13,000 false positives per month.
Cyera’s intelligent orchestration changed the equation, automatically testing, tuning, and optimising DLP policies. False positives dropped by 90%, leaving around 100 actionable alerts.
Bytes’ Managed Security Services then operationalised these improvements, embedding them into a dynamic governance model aligned to Zero Trust principles.
The impact:
- Thousands of analyst hours reclaimed annually
- Savings equivalent to 2–3 full‑time analysts
- 70–90% fewer false positives within the first month
In a market defined by talent shortages and rising threats, this efficiency becomes a strategic advantage.
AI Without Governance: A Growing Enterprise Risk
Every organisation wants to deploy Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Salesforce Einstein, and other AI platforms. But few fully understand the data exposure these tools can create.
Cyera’s research shows:
- 61% of enterprises have already experienced sensitive data being accessed by AI models without proper governance
- The average cost per incident: $4.3 million
One global organisation faced this exact challenge as it prepared to scale Copilot. By combining Cyera’s DSPM capabilities with Bytes’ deep Microsoft Modern Work and Security expertise, they:
- Classified and restricted which data AI could access
- Governed human and non‑human identities (models, bots, automations)
- Safely scaled Copilot from 1,000 to 30,000 employees with zero incidents
The result: innovation without compromise.
Why Bytes + Cyera?
Together, Bytes and Cyera bridge the gap between data intelligence and operational enforcement.
- Cyera provides the visibility - discovering, classifying, and understanding data everywhere it lives
- Bytes provides the knowledge - applying project experience in delivering Zero Trust, identity governance, continuous monitoring, and expert advice to support enforcing policy at scale
The outcome is secure acceleration: the ability for enterprises to move faster, smarter, and safer as they embrace AI powered transformation.
Ready to Bring Clarity to Your AI Strategy?
Discover how the Cyera & Bytes Data Assessment can give you the visibility and control needed to innovate securely.
If you’re looking to accelerate AI adoption while strengthening data governance, Bytes and Cyera can help you move with confidence. To explore how we can support your organisation’s secure AI transformation, reach out to [email protected].
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