Cyata

Security for AI acquired

Market readinessHow well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence. Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
DefensibilityHow well the company holds its position if competitors catch up on features, scored across seven dimensions against public evidence. Exposed: Defensibility of 12 or below. The position is exposed as AI lowers the cost of building commodity software.
Founded 2024
Funding $8.5M
Last updated 2026-07-11

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Executive Summary

Cyata's product finds the AI agents at work across a customer's cloud, software-as-a-service, and identity systems, shows what each one does, and limits what each is allowed to touch. Its founders previously worked at Check Point, Cellebrite, and the Israeli military-intelligence Unit 8200. Its researchers had published flaws in agent tooling, including a critical bug in LangChain, software used to build AI applications. About seven months after Cyata's public launch, Check Point bought the company in a set of acquisitions estimated at around 150 million dollars in total. Cyata's public customer proof is one eCapital case study and practitioner testimonials on its homepage. The request-a-demo link on Cyata's homepage now routes to Check Point's contact page.

Sourced Details

Description Cyata is a control plane for AI agent identity. It helps organizations discover every AI agent across their environment, explain what each agent did and why, and enforce policies that control agent behavior. [f1]
Acquisition Check Point Software Technologies, announced 2026-02-12 [f2]
Founded 2024 [f3]
HQ Tel Aviv, Israel [f4]
Funding $8.5M total [f5]
Latest funding Seed, $8.5M led by TLV Partners (2025) [f5]
Deployment SaaS [f6]

Products

Product What it does
Cyata Cyata: Agentic identity control plane that discovers AI agents across SaaS and cloud environments, records each agent interaction for forensics, and enforces least-privilege access policies.

Matrix Coverage

AI Defense Matrix

GovernIdentifyProtectDetectRespondRecover
AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain.
AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices.
AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD.
AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic.
AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes.
Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning.
Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history.
AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools.

Cyata is an agentic identity control plane that discovers AI agents across SaaS and cloud environments, records each agent interaction for forensics, and enforces least-privilege access policies. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f7]

Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

Established 25 /40 Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
Dimension Score
Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. 3/5
Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. 3/5
Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. 3/5
Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. 4/5
GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. 3/5
Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. 3/5
Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. 3/5
Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. 3/5

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Business Risks
Problem & Market
Product Capabilities
Competitive Positioning
Go-to-Market & Traction
Team & Credibility
Trust Readiness
Competitors

Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how defensible it is against market forces and examining the eight areas behind it.

Defensibility

Exposed 12 /21 Exposed: Defensibility of 12 or below. The position is exposed as AI lowers the cost of building commodity software. pivot urgently

Dimension Score
Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. 1/3
Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. 2/3
Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. 1/3
Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. 3/3
Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. 2/3
Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. 2/3
Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. 1/3

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Team & Execution Capability

Sources

Company Detail Sources (7)
Id Source Tier Accessed
f1 Cyata: The Control Plane for Agentic Identity official 2026-07-09
f2 CTech on Check Point acquiring Cyclops and Cyata press 2026-06-10
f3 Globes on Check Point acquiring three Israeli startups press 2026-06-14
f4 Times of Israel on Check Point acquisitions press 2026-06-14
f5 Calcalist on Cyata emerging from stealth with seed funding press 2026-06-13
f6 AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry other 2026-06-10
f7 AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping other 2026-06-23
Profile Analysis Sources (15)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Cyata homepage, control plane for agentic identity
“Cyata helps you discover, explain, and control every AI agent in your organization”
official 2026-06-13
s2 Cyata research and blog index
“Cyata Research: LangGrinch Vulnerability in LangChain”
official 2026-06-13
s3 Cyata research on LangGrinch in LangChain Core CVE-2025-68664
“marker-based serialization, untrusted model output, and later deserialization is a recurring risk shape”
official 2026-06-13
s4 Calcalist on Cyata emerging from stealth with $8.5M seed
“Cyata, a cybersecurity startup founded by alumni of Unit 8200, Cellebrite, and Check Point, has launched from stealth with $8.5 million in Seed funding led by TLV Partners.”
press 2026-06-13
s5 Calcalist on Check Point acquiring Cyclops and Cyata
“Check Point to acquire Cyclops and Cyata for $150 million in strategic Israeli cyber push”
press 2026-06-13
s6 SecurityWeek on Check Point trio of acquisitions
“Check Point Announces Trio of Acquisitions Amid Solid 2025 Earnings Beat”
press 2026-06-13
s7 SiliconANGLE on Cyata's LangGrinch langchain-core disclosure
“A new report out today from artificial intelligence security startup Cyata Security Ltd. details a recently uncovered critical vulnerability on langchain-core”
press 2026-06-13
s8 The Hacker News on the critical LangChain Core serialization injection
“Critical LangChain Core Vulnerability Exposes Secrets via Serialization Injection”
press 2026-06-13
s9 Cyata homepage eCapital case study and customer logo wall
“Case study Securing AI Agents at eCapital Stefan Lesaru VP, Technology & Compliance, eCapital Corp, beside logo wall img src wp-content/uploads/2026/02/mercury.svg, nayax.svg, trigo.svg, and seemplicity.svg”
official 2026-06-16
s10 Cyata homepage footer SOC 2 Type II and NVIDIA Inception badges
“img src wp-content/uploads/2025/07/soc_2.svg, empty alt, in block-footer image-logo block beside the NVIDIA Inception program badge”
official 2026-06-16
s11 NVD CVE-2025-68664: LangChain Core serialization injection (LangGrinch)
“Prior to versions 0.3.81 and 1.2.5, a serialization injection vulnerability exists in LangChain's dumps() and dumpd() functions. The functions do not escape dictionaries with 'lc' keys when serializing free-form dictionaries.”
regulatory 2026-06-29
s12 CVE-2025-6000: arbitrary remote code execution in HashiCorp Vault via plugin catalog abuse
“A privileged Vault operator within the root namespace with write permission to {{sys/audit}} may obtain code execution on the underlying host if a plugin directory is set in Vault's configuration.”
other 2026-06-29
s13 Israel Corporations Authority registry record: Cyata Security Ltd (company 516994662)
“CYATA SECURITY LTD, company number 516994662, Israeli private company, status active, incorporated 06/06/2024, Tel Aviv-Yafo.”
regulatory 2026-06-29
s14 The Hacker News on Cyata's Vault Fault disclosures in CyberArk and HashiCorp secret managers
“The 14 vulnerabilities, collectively named Vault Fault, affect CyberArk Secrets Manager, Self-Hosted, and Conjur Open Source and HashiCorp Vault, according to a report from an identity security firm Cyata.”
press 2026-06-29
s15 The Hacker News on Cyata's three flaws in Anthropic's official Git MCP server
“A set of three security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in mcp-server-git, the official Git Model Context Protocol (MCP) server maintained by Anthropic, that could be exploited to read or delete arbitrary files and execute code under certain conditions.”
press 2026-06-29
Deep-Dive Sources (9)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 Cyata homepage: control plane for agentic identity
“See every agent in your organization. Instantly. Turn on the lights. In moments, you have full visibility of every agent across your environment, even those hiding behind tokens, ephemeral session, or SaaS apps.”
official 2026-06-18
s2 Cyata homepage FAQ on agent discovery and policy enforcement
“Cyata automatically discovers AI agents by scanning your SaaS, cloud, and identity infrastructure. It analyzes behavioral signals, such as tool usage, API activity, and MCP interactions, to detect active and latent agents. This includes orphaned, shadow, and overly privileged agents.”
official 2026-06-18
s3 Cyata homepage eCapital case study and field testimonials
“Case study Securing AI Agents at eCapital Stefan Lesaru VP, Technology & Compliance, eCapital Corp. Robert Burns Chief Security. Ryan Fritts CIO at Everon. Liat Hayun VP Product Management & Research, Cloud Security at Tenable.”
official 2026-06-18
s4 Cyata homepage footer SOC 2 and NVIDIA Inception badges
“img src cyata.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/soc_2.svg (empty alt) beside cyata.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/nvidia-inception-program-badge-rgb-1c-blk-for-screen-1.svg and 2025/10/OWASP_Tier.svg”
official 2026-06-18
s5 Calcalist on Cyata emerging from stealth with seed funding
“Cyata, a cybersecurity startup founded by alumni of Unit 8200, Cellebrite, and Check Point, has launched from stealth with $8.5 million in Seed funding led by TLV Partners.”
press 2026-06-17
s6 Calcalist on the agent oversight gap (CEO Shahar Tal)
“a new class of digital worker has begun executing code, querying sensitive databases, and triggering automated workflows. But these agents often operate outside traditional identity frameworks, lacking the controls, traceability, and accountability applied to humans or service accounts.”
press 2026-06-17
s7 CTech on Check Point acquiring Cyclops and Cyata
“Among the targets are Cyclops Security and Cyata. The valuation of the deals was not disclosed but is estimated at around $150 million in total, with around $85 million going towards the purchase of Cyclops, according to estimates.”
press 2026-06-17
s8 Globes on Check Point acquiring three Israeli startups
“The second acquisition is of Cyata, which was founded in 2024 by CEO Shahar Tal, who formerly worked for Check Point, together with CTO Baruch Weitzman, and VP R&D Dror Roth.”
press 2026-06-17
s9 SiliconANGLE on Cyata LangGrinch langchain-core disclosure
“A new report from Cyata Security Ltd. details a critical vulnerability on langchain-core, tracked as CVE-2025-68664 and dubbed LangGrinch, with a CVSS score of 9.3. The vulnerability can allow attackers to exfiltrate sensitive secrets and could potentially escalate to remote code execution.”
press 2026-06-17

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