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Cyberhaven

Review what this vendor says publicly, the security topics those statements may support, what remains unverified, and factual company context. This is not an assessment of product effectiveness or fit.

Use-case context

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Company scale

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A descriptive band derived from retained public revenue, workforce, ownership, or funding signals.

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  • $100M known funding
  • 50-250 employees

Company context

Private independent company; reviewed Cyberhaven-controlled pages list Cyberhaven, Inc. without an acquisition or parent-company claim

Cyberhaven positions its AI and data security platform across data security posture management (DSPM), data loss prevention (DLP), insider risk, and AI security for endpoints, cloud, on-prem, software as a service (SaaS), and AI tools

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Vendor statements
19 records
Source-checked records
15
Evaluation requirements
19 in this research model
Unresolved requirements
4

Company intelligence

Who is behind the product

Company facts provide evaluation context. Each signal is kept separate because tenure, workforce, funding, and hiring answer different questions.

Founded2018
HeadquartersMountain View, California
OwnershipPrivate independent company; reviewed Cyberhaven-controlled pages list Cyberhaven, Inc. without an acquisition or parent-company claim
Employees50-250
Capital and scaleIndependent company

Cyberhaven

Known funding
$100M

SERIES_C_PLUS · $100M · 2025-04

Operating scale
Cyberhaven positions its AI and data security platform across DSPM, DLP, insider risk, and AI security for endpoints, cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and AI tools
Backing context
Vendor-controlled pages reviewed did not provide investor or funding ownership details
Founders and leadership1 person listed
  • Dr. Volodymyr Kuznetsov

    Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

    Current role listed
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Company tenure
2018
Workforce scale
50-250
Hiring activity
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Open research questions
  • A current hiring source is not available, so the count is not shown.
Company sources and research limits5 linked public sources

Only company facts supported by retained public sources are shown. Missing values remain unknown, and company scale does not establish product effectiveness.

Company sourceCyberhaven AI Security product pageCyberhaven describes enterprise AI security controls for autonomous agents, AI apps, prompt/response data flow, MCP servers, and AI connectors.Company sourceCyberhaven homepageCyberhaven says its AI and data security platform unifies DSPM, DLP, Insider Risk, and AI Security across endpoints, cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and AI tools.Company information sourceStored company websiteSupports the company facts shown in this profile.Company information sourceCyberhaven current leadership pageSupports the company facts shown in this profile.Company information sourceCyberhaven co-founder product briefingSupports the company facts shown in this profile.

Solution areas

These areas describe how the vendor approaches enterprise AI security. They do not establish product quality or fit.

Sensitive-data discovery and accessCore product focusAI data protectionCore product focusEmployee AI access and usage controlsCore product focusBrowser and extension controlsRelated coverageAction-taking agent safeguardsRelated coverageAI asset and configuration securityRelated coverageEndpoint AI application controlsRelated coverageCoding-agent and developer workstation securityRelated coverageAI gateway and tool-connection controlsRelated coverage

Buyer context

  • Treat Cyberhaven as a data-lineage, data loss prevention (DLP), insider-risk, and AI data-security platform extension with strong data-flow controls into generative and agentic AI.
  • Public evidence supports approved and unapproved AI app inventory, prompt/response data-flow controls, browser/endpoint/CLI/integrated development environment (IDE) agent inventory, Model Context Protocol (MCP) monitoring, and agent interaction lineage.
  • Public pages reviewed did not expose pricing, AI FinOps, or non-human identity (NHI)/service-account lifecycle claims.

Related frameworks

Where public vendor statements relate to framework requirements

11 related frameworks · expand when needed
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Current referenceCIS Critical Security Controls
Requirements with public support
14
Related requirements
11
References
58
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Current referenceCSA AI Controls Matrix
Requirements with public support
14
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14
References
71
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Current referenceISO/IEC 42001
Requirements with public support
14
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12
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35
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Current referenceMITRE ATLAS
Requirements with public support
14
Related requirements
12
References
71
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Current referenceNIST AI RMF Playbook
Requirements with public support
14
Related requirements
13
References
39
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Current referenceNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
Requirements with public support
14
Related requirements
12
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39
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Informative referenceOWASP Agentic AI Security Solutions Landscape
Requirements with public support
14
Related requirements
12
References
31
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Informative referenceOWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
Requirements with public support
14
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11
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27
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications
Requirements with public support
14
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13
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31
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
Requirements with public support
14
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13
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25
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Commercial Metadata
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2
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3
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Evaluation questions

What to verify beyond public claims

These questions come from security requirements with some public support. Use them as starting points for demonstrations, documentation review, customer references, or a buyer-observed pilot.

  1. 01
    Unapproved AI use discovery

    An unmanaged AI app used by a test user appears in discovery inventory with user, app or domain, and timestamp.

  2. 02
    Unapproved AI use discovery

    The test user's AI usage activity can be filtered or exported with AI-specific context.

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    AI-feature discovery in business applications

    A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

  4. 04
    AI-feature discovery in business applications

    The inventory shows which users, data classes, integrations, or providers are associated with the AI-enabled software as a service (SaaS) app.

  5. 05
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Approved AI workspace activity appears with user, workspace or tenant, model or provider, and timestamp.

  6. 06
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Prompt, model, or admin activity can be exported or correlated for the selected approved AI platform.

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    Controls for unapproved AI use

    A policy blocks, coaches, redirects, or contains a test interaction with an unapproved AI destination.

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    Controls for unapproved AI use

    The control event records policy reason, user, destination, action, and timestamp.

Detailed security-requirement research18 evaluation items · supporting evidence and open research are shown separatelyExpand
Security requirementPublic supportRelated frameworksWhat to verify
AI-feature discovery in business applications

Inventory software as a service (SaaS) applications that embed AI features, expose enterprise data to AI capabilities, or create AI-driven data movement.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

Browser and business-application controls

Apply session-level controls in browser and software as a service (SaaS) workflows, including uploads, downloads, copy/paste, sharing, and identity-aware access decisions.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A session-level policy controls upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission in a browser or software as a service (SaaS) workflow.

Generative AI application security

Protect enterprise-built large language model (LLM) applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, prompts, application programming interfaces (APIs), model calls, tools, and production runtime behavior.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.

AI governance, risk, and compliance

Inventory AI systems and owners, translate policy and regulatory obligations into governed workflows, assess risk, manage approvals and exceptions, and retain audit evidence across the AI lifecycle.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test AI system is registered with owner, intended use, risk tier, lifecycle state, and applicable obligations.

AI assurance and adversarial testing

Test models, applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and agents before release and continuously thereafter using adversarial probes, evaluation suites, attack simulation, and security release gates.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A controlled test campaign exercises an AI model, application, or agent against named AI attack classes.

AI model and supply-chain security

Discover, inventory, scan, validate, and monitor models, datasets, model artifacts, registries, dependencies, and AI development assets for tampering, unsafe serialization, provenance gaps, or malicious content.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test model or AI artifact appears in inventory with origin, version, hash or provenance, and deployment context.

AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controls

Mediate model, agent, tool, application programming interface (API), connector, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic through an enforcement point that applies identity-aware policy, content controls, routing, rate limits, and auditable allow or deny decisions.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A model, agent, tool, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) request passes through a named policy enforcement point.

Non-human identity and service-account security

Inventory, least privilege, credential hygiene, monitoring, and lifecycle management for non-human identities, workloads, service accounts, application programming interface (API) keys, and machine credentials.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test service account, agent identity, or non-human identity appears in inventory with owner and privileges.

AI agent identity and permissions

Register AI agents as accountable identities, bind them to owners and delegating users, authorize task- and tool-level access, issue short-lived credentials, review access, and revoke or suspend agent authority.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test agent is registered with a unique identity, accountable owner, purpose, and permitted resources.

AI coding-agent and workstation security

Discover and govern AI coding agents, integrated development environment (IDE) assistants, command-line agents, skills, hooks, extensions, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, filesystem access, commands, network activity, secrets, and software-supply-chain actions on developer workstations and build environments.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test coding agent and its skills, hooks, extensions, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools appear in an attributable inventory.

Licensing model

Publicly discoverable commercial model such as per user, per seat, per app, per token, per integration, or enterprise platform license.

No supporting claim found
Commercial MetadataCSA AI Controls Matrix

The vendor can map the sourced commercial model to per-user, per-seat, per-app, per-token, per-integration, or platform packaging.

Public sources

Vendor statements and quoted evidence

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AI governance, risk, and complianceSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims continuous inventory of AI agents, applications, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, multidimensional AI risk scoring, data-lineage chain of custody, behavioral telemetry, and policy enforcement for autonomous systems.

Continuous, automatically maintained inventory of every AI agent, GenAI application, and MCP server across your environment.
AI assurance and adversarial testingNo supporting claim found

Cyberhaven AI Security materials reviewed did not provide a public product claim for automated adversarial testing, repeatable attack suites, model or agent red teaming, or release-gate evaluation.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI model and supply-chain securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims continuous inventory of agents, local models, plugins, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and tools plus AI Risk IQ scoring that includes model integrity and tracks component and version changes through endpoint and data lineage context.

Cyberhaven assigns an AI Risk IQ score across five dimensions: data sensitivity, model integrity, compliance adherence, user access, and security infrastructure.
AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controlsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims endpoint-resident runtime observability and policy enforcement across agent files, application programming interfaces (APIs), Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tools, outputs, and sensitive-data movement using behavioral context and data lineage.

The third pillar is runtime policy enforcement.
AI agent identity and permissionsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims user and device attribution, user-access risk scoring, agent activity chain of custody, and visibility into agents operating with user permissions.

Security teams can see which files were accessed, how data moved, and whether sensitive content traveled to an unexpected destination.
AI coding-agent and workstation securitySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims endpoint inventory and full execution-lifecycle reconstruction for local coding agents across browsers, CLIs, integrated development environments (IDEs), files, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, application programming interfaces (APIs), generated outputs, and sensitive-data movement.

Continuously inventories AI agents running across endpoints, browsers, command-line interfaces, and IDEs.
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Unapproved AI use discoverySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims it automatically inventories approved and unapproved AI apps as they appear across an organization.

Cyberhaven automatically inventories sanctioned and unsanctioned AI apps as they appear across the organization, from mainstream SaaS generative AI applications to endpoint coding assistants, open-source agent frameworks, and MCP servers.
AI-feature discovery in business applicationsSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims it inventories mainstream software as a service (SaaS) generative AI applications as part of AI app discovery.

Cyberhaven automatically inventories sanctioned and unsanctioned AI apps as they appear across the organization, from mainstream SaaS generative AI applications to endpoint coding assistants, open-source agent frameworks, and MCP servers.
Approved AI usage monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims usage and adoption insights categorize AI applications as approved, unapproved, tolerated, or restricted.

Usage and Adoption Insights Surfaces AI adoption trends across the enterprise, categorizing applications as Sanctioned, Unsanctioned, Tolerated, or Restricted to support governance decisions.
Controls for unapproved AI useSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims runtime guardrails block high-risk data movement, redirect users to approved tools, and coach employees.

Enforces runtime guardrails at the prompt and response level, blocking high-risk data movement, redirecting users to sanctioned tools, and coaching employees with plain-English policy explanations.
Sensitive-data protection for generative AISource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims prompt- and response-level guardrails block high-risk data movement.

Enforces runtime guardrails at the prompt and response level, blocking high-risk data movement, redirecting users to sanctioned tools, and coaching employees with plain-English policy explanations.
Browser and business-application controlsSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims Shadow AI Discovery inventories AI agents across endpoints, browsers, CLIs, and integrated development environments (IDEs).

Continuously inventories AI agents running across endpoints, browsers, CLIs, and IDEs, including tools that cloud-only security solutions cannot see.
Generative AI application securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims prompt- and response-level runtime guardrails with block, redirect, and coaching controls.

Enforces runtime guardrails at the prompt and response level, blocking high-risk data movement, redirecting users to sanctioned tools, and coaching employees with plain-English policy explanations.
Action-taking agent monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims Agentic AI Visibility reconstructs agent interaction lifecycles with tool calls, data access, and multi-turn conversation context.

Reconstructs the full execution lifecycle of every agent interaction, capturing tool calls, data access, and multi-turn conversation context in a single view.
Agent-to-agent communication securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims it discovers and monitors Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and AI connectors across the enterprise.

Discovers and monitors Model Context Protocol servers and AI connectors across the enterprise, surfacing risk from integrations that operate outside traditional security controls.
Non-human identity and service-account securityNo supporting claim found

Cyberhaven materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for non-human identity (NHI), service-account, credential lifecycle, or AI-agent identity governance.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI cost and usage controlsNo supporting claim found

Cyberhaven materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for AI spend attribution, model cost routing, budget enforcement, rate limits, or token spend controls.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Licensing modelNo supporting claim found

Cyberhaven materials reviewed did not provide a public per-user, per-seat, platform, usage-based, or enterprise pricing model.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Approved AI platform contextSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Cyberhaven claims its AI and data security platform protects data across endpoints, cloud, on-prem, software as a service (SaaS), and AI tools.

Cyberhaven’s AI & data security platform unifies DSPM, DLP, Insider Risk, and AI Security to protect data wherever it lives and goes across endpoints, cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and AI tools.