As corporate data continues to grow year over year, it is rapidly becoming a large portion of most organizations’ attack surface. By 2025, global data will reach 181 zettabytes, spread across cloud platforms, private networks, SaaS and generative AI applications. Through error, targeted attacks, or malicious intent, users are often a key factor in data loss.

To address these problems, Island is partnering with Cyera, the AI-Native Data Security Platform, to develop capabilities combining protection directly within the Enterprise Browser with AI-driven data protection.

“Together, Cyera and Island are working to deliver end-to-end data security, from discovery to the browser built for business," said Guy Gertner, VP of Product at Cyera. "By combining Cyera’s intelligence with Island’s Enterprise Browser, organizations can protect sensitive data at the point of user interaction without disrupting how work gets done.”

Cyera provides deep AI-driven insights and protection into organizational data across your entire environment while Island provides a window for users to interact with that data, including data loss prevention, enterprise communications, access controls, and other forms of policy enforcement. The combination of these two innovative technology providers advances data protection like never before. 

Cyera AI-Native Data Security Platform

Cyera is at the forefront of data security, offering an AI-native data security platform designed to provide comprehensive protection for an organization's most sensitive data assets in motion and at rest. This sophisticated platform enables companies to gain complete visibility and control over their data, regardless of where it resides within their diverse digital landscape.

The platform's unified DSPM and DLP capabilities extend across a wide array of environments where critical data is stored, including:

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): This encompasses cloud computing services where organizations can provision and manage their own computing resources, such as virtual machines, storage, and networks. Cyera ensures that data within these flexible and scalable environments remains secure.
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): With the increasing adoption of cloud-based applications, organizations rely heavily on SaaS solutions. Cyera provides a vital layer of security for data stored and processed within these third-party applications, addressing the unique challenges of shared responsibility models.
• Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS): Modern applications frequently leverage managed database services. Cyera extends its protective reach to these specialized environments, safeguarding the integrity and confidentiality of structured and unstructured data held within.
• On-premises Data Stores: Despite the shift to cloud, many organizations still maintain significant data assets within their own physical data centers. Cyera ensures consistent data security policies and controls are applied to these traditional environments, providing a unified approach to data protection.

Once data is identified and cataloged across these varied locations, Cyera's intelligent engine takes over. It meticulously classifies the data with 95%+ precision, assigning appropriate context based on its type and content. This classification then informs the crucial step of determining its sensitivity, recognizing the varying levels of risk associated with different data types—from publicly available information to highly confidential intellectual property or personally identifiable information (PII).

The Island Enterprise Browser

The Island Enterprise Browser marks a paradigm shift in how organizations approach application delivery and user experience. It's not merely a browser with added features; it redefines the very foundation of the modern workplace's application delivery. By serving as the critical "last mile" of enterprise control, it empowers organizations with unprecedented levels of control, visibility, productivity, and governance as users engage corporate applications. This revolutionary approach is achieved while meticulously preserving the familiar, intuitive, and seamless Chromium-based browser experience that users have come to expect and depend on in their daily work. This user-centric design ensures a smooth transition and rapid adoption, minimizing disruption while maximizing security and efficiency.

What sets the Island Enterprise Browser apart from its consumer-oriented counterparts is its fundamental architectural difference: it embeds access and security policies directly within the user experience. This control point is critical, as it's precisely at this juncture—the browser itself—where users, applications, and sensitive corporate data converge. This intersection is where critical business operations unfold, and where the greatest challenges often lie. By integrating control directly into the experience, organizations gain an unparalleled command over how users interact with, modify, and transmit data.

This granular control extends to a comprehensive suite of security and governance capabilities. Organizations can precisely control access to specific web applications, ensuring that only authorized individuals can reach sensitive resources. Leveraging application boundaries, Island can ensure data remains within the appropriate corporate application footprint without spilling into places it shouldn’t. Comprehensive monitoring of user activity provides invaluable insights into digital workflows and potential risks, allowing for proactive intervention. Furthermore, the browser can actively inspect for sensitive content within downloads or uploads, and mitigate the risks associated with malware, intellectual property theft, and non-compliance. This deeply integrated approach is a robust, adaptive, and pervasive security posture that transcends the limitations of traditional, perimeter-based defenses. Instead of relying solely on network boundaries, protection is extended directly to the user and their every interaction within the browser, creating a secure and controlled environment for the modern enterprise.

Island and Cyera: Protecting Organizational Data Where the User Works

The collaboration between Cyera and Island delivers a powerful partnership that redefines data security by combining Cyera’s deep contextual understanding of data with Island’s unique “last mile” visibility and policy enforcement at the point of user interaction. Together, they create a seamless and highly effective security model that addresses the complexities of modern digital environments. 

By leveraging Cyera’s AI-native data classification and monitoring capabilities alongside Island’s Enterprise Browser, which embeds security policies directly within the browser, organizations can achieve unparalleled control over their data estate. This partnership ensures that sensitive information is protected at every stage of its lifecycle, from discovery to user interaction, while maintaining a fluid and user-friendly experience that supports productivity without compromising security.

As we work together, the combination of Island and Cyera further enables a range of data protection options designed to enhance security for mutual customers. 

Potential integrations include:

• Using Island to enforce policies based on Cyera’s data classifications, triggering controls within the browser to safeguard data
• Preventing users from transferring sensitive data to unapproved applications, such as AI chatbots, by utilizing Cyera’s classifications to inform Island’s real-time controls
• Empowering end users to actively contribute to security efforts by delivering real-time alerts and remediation options through Island when risks are detected, reducing IT overhead and fostering a proactive data management culture
• Strengthening cloud environment security by automatically applying customized policies to platforms identified as sensitive by Cyera, ensuring comprehensive protection across diverse digital landscapes

Summary

Data sprawl across various systems—both company-controlled and third-party—is a common and increasingly complex challenge for organizations of all sizes. This decentralized landscape makes it incredibly difficult to gain a comprehensive understanding of where sensitive data resides within the company's ecosystem. Identifying the precise location of data, understanding its sensitivity level, and subsequently establishing robust controls over it are not only challenging tasks but also absolutely crucial for maintaining a strong security posture. Without clear visibility and stringent controls, organizations are highly vulnerable to data breaches, compliance violations, and significant reputational damage. Therefore, addressing data sprawl is a foundational step towards achieving true data security.

Island and Cyera offer complementary and robust data protection capabilities that address these modern security challenges. Island provides granular control over how users can view and interact with corporate data, ensuring that sensitive information remains within defined boundaries and is only accessible to authorized individuals. This proactive approach helps prevent data exfiltration and misuse, even when data is accessed from various devices or locations. On the other hand, Cyera delivers vital data insights by continuously discovering, classifying, and monitoring data across the entire enterprise, regardless of its location or format. Together, Island and Cyera are committed to developing a comprehensive, end-to-end data security solution. This integrated approach ensures the protection of your most critical data assets from discovery to interaction, providing unparalleled visibility and control over the entire data lifecycle.

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The Island Enterprise Browser fundamentally transforms how the world’s leading organizations work by embedding enterprise-grade IT, security, network controls, data protections, app access, and productivity enhancements directly into the browser itself, enabling secure access to any application, protecting sensitive data, streamlining IT operations, and delivering a superior end-user experience while actually boosting productivity.

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