Ownership
Every exposure gets an accountable owner
Surf resolves the accountable human for each data finding from identity, HR, and system-of-record context, so nothing waits in an unowned queue.
Cyera and Surf AI
Turn Cyera data exposures into closed, owned remediations.
Cyera shows you where sensitive data is exposed. Surf AI gives each exposure an accountable owner and drives it to a verified fix, so the risks that matter get closed and stay closed, and the backlog stops growing.
- Accountable ownership
- Closed at the source
- A backlog that shrinks
CyeraData exposures are found. Closing them is the hard part.
Cyera discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem, then links it to identity and access so you can see real exposure. Finding the risk that matters is half the battle.
The other half is operationalizing a fix within an enterprise. Who owns the datastore, what are the ripple effects from revoking access, which compliance considerations exist, and what systems of record need to be updated. Today, that work is manual, so high-severity exposures sit open while new ones stack behind them and the backlog grows.
Cyera shows you where sensitive data is exposed. Surf AI gives each exposure an owner and drives it to a verified fix.
What changes
From a growing queue to a backlog that shrinks.
Closure
Closed and verified, not just ticketed
Surf drives each exposure to a verified fix and writes the outcome back, turning a ticket into a closed, recorded loop.
Backlog
The backlog shrinks and stays down
Recurring access and classification issues are fixed at the source and stop coming back, so hygiene improves and holds instead of resetting each cycle.
The Scenario
Sensitive customer data is overexposed in production.
CyeraData Security
Data exposureHigh
Customer PII store with excessive access
Cyera flags a production datastore holding customer PII that is reachable by too many identities, including stale service accounts. On its own it is a high-signal finding. Closing it means knowing who owns the data, what removing access breaks, and how to prove the fix.
- Store
- customers-db · prod-us-east-1
- Sensitivity
- PII · GDPR / CCPA in scope
- Exposure
- Over-permissioned identities
- Access count
- 47 principals · 12 unused 90d
- Owner record
- Stale · last updated 14 mo ago
- Risk
- Exfiltration path · high confidence
What happens next is where the two paths diverge.
Two paths
Same data exposure. Two outcomes.
Without Surf AI
Backlog grows.
High-severity data exposures sit open while newer findings stack behind them.
The exposure is visible. Ownership, impact, and change policy are not.
- Find the data ownerManual
- Assess the blast radiusUnclear
- Clear complianceBlocked
- Escalate and approveAd hoc
- Fix and closeReopens
With Surf AI
Backlog shrinks.
Owned, closed, and verified. Sensitive-data exposures stay closed.
Cyera discovers the exposure. The Context Graph helps operationalize a fix.
- Resolve ownershipAutomated
- Model and guardModeled
- Route to the ownerOne tap
- Close and write backVerified
High data exposure
Criticalcustomers-db · CYERA-2291. Customer PII with 12 unused principals over 90 days, including stale service accounts on a path to exfiltration.
Surf AI via Cyera · Approve & Remediate
How it works
From finding to verified closure.
Bring in the findings
Ingest
Cyera findings flow into Surf with full context, so every exposure enters the loop ready to act on rather than waiting in a queue.
Own it and model it
Resolve
The Context Graph names the accountable owner and models ripple effects, compliance scope, and availability across identity, HR, cloud, data, and IT systems.
Remediate and write back
Close
The owner gets a one-tap action. One approval drives the fix through your change workflow, and Surf writes the verified outcome back to Cyera.
All of it runs inside the Context Graph, a continuously updated knowledge graph that links identity, cloud, data, HR, and IT systems.
Context Graph
Capabilities that turn Cyera findings into closed, owned work.
Subject defragmentation
A person or service is scattered across identity, HR, code, and cloud systems under different handles. The Context Graph resolves them into one subject, so ownership points to a real, accountable human even when the record is stale.
Ripple Effect modeling
Before recommending action, Surf simulates downstream impact across services, entitlements, and data access, so teams know what a fix will and will not break, and which option is safest.
Compliance embedding
Regulated scope, change-approval rules, and policy are properties of every node, resolved alongside ownership rather than chased separately.
Availability awareness
Leave status, on-call schedules, and identity activity determine who can act, not just who is listed as the owner on paper.
Bidirectional lifecycle closure
Surf writes remediation outcomes back to Cyera with action and approver, so the finding becomes a verified closure with a complete audit trail on both sides.
Across domains
One graph, every domain
Because the graph spans identity, HR, ITSM, and SaaS, Surf assigns an accountable owner even when a finding never maps cleanly to a single cloud asset, the cross-domain reach most remediation tools lack.
Partners
Built together for closed-loop data risk remediation.
About Surf AI
Surf AI is an agentic operations platform that helps enterprises operationalize security programs with AI. By connecting context across identity, cloud, data, HR, and IT systems, Surf closes the gap between understanding risk and acting on it. Surf's AI-native platform uses specialized agents to drive action with human oversight, guardrails, and auditability built in. Surf is backed by Accel, Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures, and trusted by global companies including Fortune 500 enterprises.
www.surf.aiAbout Cyera
Cyera is an AI-native data security platform that discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Built for enterprise scale, Cyera links data to identity and access context so teams can see where sensitive and proprietary data lives, who can reach it, and how exposure builds, then act with confidence.
www.cyera.comCyera and Surf AI
Turn Cyera findings into closed, owned work.
See how Surf gives every data exposure an owner, a safe path to closure, and a complete audit trail.