We had the chance to discuss data security with Cyera as part of the Davos 2026 Campaign.
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to execution. Across industries, AI models, copilots, and autonomous agents are now embedded in everyday business operations, shaping decisions, workflows, and customer experiences. As adoption accelerates, organizations face a critical challenge: how to unlock AI’s full potential while protecting the data that powers it.
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Questions asked in this interview
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0:47I mean, where's the pressure coming from in terms of the data landscape?
1:24Now, you're essentially a security company. Is that fair?
1:27What made you come up with the idea to start this company and what are you trying to fix?
3:35Is that the kind of what it does as a byproduct of being such a free system?
4:26What kind of clients are starting to see the downside to their AI platforms?
5:30Is this how you operate and what does it mean?
Organizations are in danger of drowning in their own data. As cloud adoption accelerates and AI advances, managing that data has become one of the defining security issues of our time. Data security company Cyera sits at the heart of this shift, offering a data-centric platform that automatically maps, classifies, and protects information across the spectrum. We're here in Davos to discuss insights and ideas with business leaders from around the world. Today, it's Cyera CEO and founder Yotam Segev.
So, of course, this time the conversation is all about new tech and a new world. I mean, where's the pressure coming from in terms of the data landscape?
Oh, the pressure is absolutely coming from the AI adoption. If you think about AI, it runs on two things. It runs on chips and we're seeing Nvidia lead the charge on that. And it runs on data and it's making data more valuable than it ever was before. And for many of the big organizations that are coming here into this conference, it's making their proprietary data the next business advantage they have. And leveraging it with AI is the talk of the day.
We had our own experience trying to protect data in a very different landscape in the defense sector in Israel and we realized that in the new world of cloud and AI, you're not going to be able to lock the data up in a vault anymore to protect it. It's going to be in all of these new systems. It's going to be processed in all of these new ways. And that is the way to make value out of it. At the same time, you have to find the right balance. You have to build the right brakes for the car in order to be able to go fast with these systems and have control.
And I suppose you could describe the kind of technological transformation era that we're in now as a kind of gold rush, things moving ahead, people trying to catch up with what they want to do. And so things get out of sync, I suppose, in a way.
Yeah, I think there's definitely a significant gap and significant friction within these companies. On the one hand, you know, the whole world is telling us AI is going to run our lives and every company is rushing to adopt AI as fast as they can. At the same time, these are traditional businesses that are highly profitable. They have a lot to lose and this is a tectonic shift. They don't want to be the dinosaurs that went extinct, but they also don't want to be the risk-takers that were foolish and, you know, shot themselves in the foot trying to use the new weapon.
Oh, absolutely. I think there's a lot of pressure in the enterprise ecosystem today. A lot of companies are feeling that their fundamental business model is under attack and they're trying to find ways to reposition themselves and modernize.
Segev, Y. (2026, January 24). Cyera in DAVOS 2026 | Building Trust in the Data Era [Interview transcript]. Acumen Stories. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/671747/
MLA
Yotam Segev. "Cyera in DAVOS 2026 | Building Trust in the Data Era." Acumen Stories, 24 Jan. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/671747/.
BibTeX
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author = {Yotam Segev},
title = {Cyera in DAVOS 2026 | Building Trust in the Data Era},
howpublished = {Interview transcript, Acumen Stories. CEOInterviews.AI},
year = {2026},
month = {jan},
url = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/671747/},
note = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
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