Cybersecurity startup Cyata today emerged from stealth mode with a platform that tackles the risk of AI agents gaining unrestricted access to enterprise environments.
Amid broad adoption of AI agents to boost productivity, the Tel Aviv-based company seeks to address a security gap and deliver governance, oversight, and identity management for these agents.
Cyata’s platform identifies, monitors, and controls AI agents operating across enterprise environments outside traditional identity and access management frameworks.
The company’s solution continuously scans desktop and SaaS environments for AI identities and their permissions, and creates detailed audit trails of their activity, including by requiring them to justify reasoning in real time.
Covering AI copilots, chatbots, and task-driven agents, Cyata also enforces granular access controls for these digital identities, maintaining human-in-the-loop approvals for sensitive operations.
The company launched today with $8.5 million in a seed funding round led by TLV Partners, with additional support from multiple angel investors.
Cyata was founded by industry veterans Shahar Tal (CEO), Dror Roth (VP R&D), and Baruch Weizman (CTO), who held leading roles at Cellebrite, Check Point, and Israel’s cyberwarfare unit 8200, and has a team of 12 cybersecurity professionals in Tel Aviv, over half of them coming from Cellebrite.
“AI agents represent the biggest leap in enterprise technology since the cloud – a self-scaling, sleepless workforce that codes, analyzes, and executes in seconds,” Cyata CEO and co-founder Shahar Tal said.
“We focus on the actors, not the LLMs – because agents, not models, are the ones making decisions and triggering risk. Cyata gives security teams identity-grade controls built specifically for AI agents, so they can unlock their power – without losing control,” Tal added.
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