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Cyberhaven Addresses Critical AI Security Gap with New Visibility and Protection Platform
Industry's first comprehensive solution delivers unprecedented AI usage visibility and data flow controls as AI adoption surges 61x over 24 months
PALO ALTO, CA — April 29, 2025 — Cyberhaven, the leader in data security, today announced the launch of Visibility and Protection for AI, cementing its pioneering position in securing enterprise data in the AI era. The new release represents a major platform expansion designed to transform how organizations harness AI. Cyberhaven now provides security teams with next-generation tools to identify grassroots AI innovation, scale successful AI workflows enterprise-wide, evaluate AI tools based on customizable risk criteria, and implement granular controls over both data entering AI systems and AI-generated content flowing through business operations.
This launch comes at a critical time, as new research from Cyberhaven Labs reveals workplace AI usage has skyrocketed 61x over the past 24 months. More concerning, 71.7% of AI tools fall into high or critical risk categories, with 83.8% of enterprise data flowing to these risky tools rather than enterprise-ready alternatives. The volume of sensitive corporate data shared with AI tools has more than tripled in just two years, from 10.7% to 34.8%.
“AI is revolutionizing how businesses operate, but this rapid adoption creates new security blind spots,” said Howard Ting, CEO of Cyberhaven. “Our Visibility and Protection for AI solution gives organizations the confidence to embrace AI's benefits without compromising data security. We're helping customers see, understand, and control how their data interacts with AI, turning a potential risk into a competitive advantage.”
Cyberhaven’s Visibility and Protection for AI combines four powerful capabilities:
- Shadow AI Discovery – identifies all AI tools in use across the organization, building a comprehensive registry that finds dedicated AI applications, embedded AI within SaaS platforms, and AI accessed through both corporate and personal email accounts.
- AI Usage Insights – provides a central console to monitor AI activity across tools, users, and data, helping security teams identify concerning patterns and enabling IT teams to recognize AI champions within the organization.
- AI Risk IQ – delivers detailed risk profiles for over 700 of the top AI tools, scoring each across five dimensions including data sensitivity, model security risks, and compliance considerations.
- AI Data Flow Control – enforces risk-based policies on data moving to and from AI tools, triggering actions such as blocking or warning when sensitive data movement is detected.
"Traditional security approaches can’t see which AI tools employees are using or know how these tools put sensitive data at risk,” said Nishant Doshi, Chief Product and Development Officer of Cyberhaven. "Our solution stays ahead of the evolving AI application landscape, maintaining a registry of existing and emerging tools as employees adopt them.”
The solution directly addresses key business challenges, including uncovering shadow AI, stopping sensitive data leaks to unsanctioned AI tools, limiting AI’s exposure of confidential information, and enabling secure AI adoption across the enterprise.
Cyberhaven Visibility and Protection for AI is available now.
About Cyberhaven
Cyberhaven is the AI-powered data security company revolutionizing how companies detect and stop the most critical threats to their most important data. Until now, data security products were limited to scanning data content and looking for specific user actions. Our AI technology analyzes billions of workflows to understand every piece of data within an organization, when it's at risk, and takes action to protect it. It's like nothing that's come before and protects data like nothing else.
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Cyberhaven
Cyberhaven is the AI-powered data security company revolutionizing how companies detect and stop the most critical threats to their most important data. Until now, data security products were limited to scanning data content and looking for specific user actions. Our AI technology analyzes billions of workflows to understand every piece of data within an organization, when it's at risk, and takes action to protect it. It's like nothing that's come before and protects data like nothing else.
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