Protect Your IP Before It Leaves the Organization
Know what sensitive data employees access, move, and take with them. Detect risky behavior before an employee leaves, protect intellectual property across every exit path, and give HR and Legal the evidence they need to act.
Why Insider Risk Is Increasingly Difficult to Detect and Control
Your Most Valuable IP Lives Where Work Happens
Source code, CAD files, deal models, formulas, client lists, research, and other sensitive data sit in the tools employees use every day. Traditional controls can tell you that a file moved, but not always what was in it, where it originated, or where it went.
Employee Departures Create a Critical Blind Spot
Offboarding often starts with a spreadsheet or a notification from HR. By the time security knows someone is leaving, an employee may already have been stockpiling sensitive data or moving it to a personal account, often weeks before their resignation is official.
Data Can Disappear from Traditional Detection
Rename a file, zip it, change its format, take a screenshot, or copy and paste the contents, and file-based controls can lose the connection. Employees can also route data through personal email and cloud storage, USB, print, chat applications, and browsers.
When IP leaves with a departing employee and there is no record of what was taken, organizations may be left without the evidence needed to investigate or respond.
How Protection Pays Off
Faster investigations
Fewer false positives
Less risky behavior
Combined value of Cyberhaven's publicly traded customers
How to Protect IP & Minimize Insider Risk with Cyberhaven
Cyberhaven traces sensitive data from creation through every move, copy, and upload, so you can spot risk before an employee leaves, protect intellectual property on every exit path, and act on clear evidence.
Detect Risk Before an Employee Leaves
Monitor workforce transitions for data hoarding and exfiltration. Employees are evaluated against their own history and relevant peer behavior, helping identify unusual stockpiling before a resignation or departure.
Follow Sensitive Data Wherever It Goes
Data stays identified as it’s renamed, zipped, converted, or copied and pasted into new files. Lineage connects that activity back to the original sensitive data instead of relying on file names or patterns alone.
Create Evidence You Can Act On
Cover every major exit path, including personal email, personal cloud, USB, print, chat applications, browsers, and IDEs. Every departure can produce a report of what the employee moved, giving HR, Legal, and security teams evidence they can investigate and act on.
Key features
The Capabilities You Need to Protect IP and Detect Insider Risk
Monitor employee behavior, understand how sensitive data moves, and investigate risky activity with context that connects people, data, and actions.
See Cyberhaven’s full capabilities→Monitor Departing Employees for Data Hoarding and Exfiltration
Identify unusual data activity before an employee leaves.
Risk scoring can flag stockpiling months before a resignation, while a reviewed report shows what each departing employee moved. This gives security teams a way to investigate potential insider risk before data reaches a competitor or personal account.
Catch Exfiltration Even When Files Are Obfuscated
Follow sensitive data by lineage, not by file name or pattern.
Renaming, zipping, reformatting, screenshotting, or copying data does not break its lineage. This helps detect attempts to move sensitive information even when the original file is no longer recognizable.
Protect Sensitive Data Across Every Exit Path
Stop exfiltration through personal email, personal cloud, chat applications, USB, print, browsers, and other common channels.
One agent covers Mac, Windows, VDI, and browser environments, helping organizations apply sensitive data protection across the ways employees work and share information.
Protect IP During Layoffs, Acquisitions, and Contractor Ramps
Workforce transitions can create additional insider risk. Monitor activity during layoffs, acquisitions, contractor ramps, and other periods of organizational change.
Detect risky activity while the person still works there and create evidence that HR, Legal, and other authorized teams can use.
Detect Sensitive Data New Hires Bring with Them
Identify sensitive data that new employees bring from former employers before it enters internal workflows.
Data lineage identifies where information originated and who introduced it, helping organizations understand external origin and ownership before potentially sensitive information becomes part of the corporate environment.
Identify Data-to-User Mismatches
Flag sensitive data employees retain without a legitimate business need.
Role-aware analysis helps identify mismatches between the data a person has and their current role. Lineage maps copies back to their owner and current role, giving security teams context to remediate unnecessary access or retention.
Explain Risk with Data Context
Identify risky behavior without constant rule tuning or black-box scoring.
Tie behavior to specific sensitive data and explain why the activity is risky. Data context makes detections explainable, giving security teams a clearer basis for investigation and response.
“Anyone who is seriously doing an evaluation of this area really ought to be looking at Cyberhaven.”
Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise
Cyberhaven Flow traces the full lifecycle of data and adapts protection to changing context
Protect Your IP. Minimize Insider Risk.
Know what employees access and move, detect risky behavior before sensitive data leaves, and give your security, HR, and Legal teams the evidence they need to act.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can Cyberhaven help detect data exfiltration before an employee leaves?
Cyberhaven monitors employee activity for patterns associated with data hoarding and exfiltration. Risk scoring can identify unusual behavior relative to an employee's history and relevant peers, helping security teams investigate potential risk before a resignation or departure.
Cyberhaven also connects employee activity to the sensitive data involved, helping teams understand what was accessed, moved, or retained.
How can organizations secure intellectual property?
Effective methods to protect intellectual property include identifying sensitive data, understanding who can access it, monitoring how it moves, protecting common exit paths, and maintaining evidence when suspicious activity occurs.
Cyberhaven uses data lineage to connect sensitive information to its origin, movement, and destination, helping security teams protect proprietary IP and trade secrets throughout the employee lifecycle.
How can organizations protect IP during employee offboarding?
Effective IP protection during employee offboarding requires visibility before the employee leaves, not just an investigation afterward.
Cyberhaven monitors workforce transitions for unusual data activity, covers common exfiltration paths such as personal email, personal cloud, USB, print, and chat applications, and provides a reviewed report of what a departing employee moved.
How does Cyberhaven support insider threat detection?
Cyberhaven combines employee risk monitoring with data context and lineage. This allows security teams to connect a person's behavior to the sensitive data involved, identify unusual activity, and understand where data originated and where it moved.
The result is actionable context for investigating potential insider threats.
How do you detect insider threats without relying on black-box scoring?
Cyberhaven ties behavior to specific sensitive data and uses data context to explain why activity is considered risky. Role-aware analysis can also identify mismatches between an employee's role and the sensitive data they access or retain.
This gives security teams evidence they can investigate rather than relying solely on an opaque risk score.
What features should businesses expect in insider risk management software?
Organizations evaluating insider risk management software should consider visibility into employee data activity, risk detection during workforce transitions, sensitive data identification, data lineage, coverage across common exfiltration paths, role-aware analysis, and evidence that can support HR and Legal investigations.
Cyberhaven combines these capabilities to connect employee behavior with the sensitive data involved.
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