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Cyera vs Segment comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cyera
Ranking in Data Governance
24th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (12th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (9th), AI Data Analysis (20th), AI Security (12th), Data Security Platforms (DSP) (3rd)
Segment
Ranking in Data Governance
11th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Web Analytics (2nd), Customer Data Platforms (CDP) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Cyera is 2.3%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Segment is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Segment0.8%
Cyera2.3%
Other96.9%
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2795301 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Compliance at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
Data discovery has accelerated and now drives faster classification and compliance mapping
The best features Cyera offers include agentless discovery and sampling as well as AI ML-based classifications. I find myself relying on the sampling the most, which makes everything really fast, but also the auto-classification and ML-based functionalities. The main thing that stands out to me and my team about the features is the speed of integration and how fast it does the discovery on the data. Once it discovers the data, it also maps it back to a ton of compliance frameworks and best practices that I can use to operationalize. Cyera has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to identify the highest risk areas but also provide better classification of data, which then leads to better data pillar maturity. Cyera has accomplished all three outcomes: saving time, reducing risk, and improving compliance scores, as the speed at which it discovers data was significantly faster.
Thiago Vernizzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Engenheiro de Software at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Behavioral insights have powered personalized investor journeys and data-driven campaigns
I have not used Segment for more than a year, so I am not aware of its current evolution, but I know there was a migration from Segment to Adobe as a strategic decision by XP bank, which pointed out unified databases as an improvement area compared to Segment, where they effectively utilized AI for creative marketing campaign generation. The necessary improvements in Segment based on my experience focus on providing more tools for the marketing team, particularly using AI to create campaigns through images and short videos, enhancing communication with end customers via offer banners in a more automated and effective manner.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I like how they model the data. They find data in different places that we didn't know, and they can give us a good idea if it's sensitive or not. They understand whether or not something is in the right region because, with the cloud posture management tool, we could see certain things in the infrastructure, but the way they dig into the data is what we like."
"Cyera has an inbuilt set of policies implemented towards data security, especially cohering with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)."
"Cyera has positively impacted my organization because we have become more compliant."
"The data discovery, data classification, and CSPM features are most valuable."
"Cyera has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to identify the highest risk areas but also provide better classification of data, which then leads to better data pillar maturity."
"I like the straightforward way of connecting with various data sources and destinations. That's the most valuable feature. It has built-in integrations for a lot of them, so the overall effort required for integrations is relatively low."
"With Segment, we were able to clean the data and also break the data into different classes to reach specific targets with a specific message, and the outcome was very superb."
"Segment has improved our data quality and our ease of collection, and most importantly, it has saved us time by not having to maintain a custom tool for server-side tracking."
"Segment allowed for the organization of the entire source of all audiences, making it a very robust tool where the cost pays for itself through return on investment, highlighting the tool's cost-benefit ratio as a major differentiator."
"On the one hand, Segment has saved marketing costs, which has allowed me to use that investment elsewhere, and on the other hand, it has allowed me to do much more personalization than I could do manually."
"Segment has positively impacted my organization by enabling my client to improve their marketing and understanding of their customers through the use of Segment without needing IT as a bottleneck."
"Customer support is fantastic."
"Segment's scalability is amazing, and it's fully capable of handling all of the different use cases that we have in our company and we have a very complicated company."
 

Cons

"The licensing initially was tricky because it is based on storage as well as user count."
"As a startup company, there is a long way for them to go in terms of scalability."
"There is room for improvement in making Cyera more user-friendly. Some parts were difficult to navigate, especially for those new to the IT industry."
"They need to add a few things in the UI from an enterprise perspective. It's more along the lines of being able to self-service, have integrations, build alerts, and things like that. Outside of that, they work with us on the API and getting alerts into our SIEM and things like that. There's always a way to do something, and they're always available, which is nice."
"I would advise others looking into using Cyera to not do so."
"The only challenge was the session functionality."
"The design of the website is such that you lose context when clicking around (e.g. when clicking on docs)."
"I think Segment can improve in terms of identity management, possibly in some of the protocols by adding more flexibility."
"As data volumes, event tracking, and integrations increase, the platform can become expensive for growing organizations."
"I chose a rating of eight out of ten because these video tutorials would really illustrate how to use the tool to its full potential, and perhaps some more hands-on support from the Segment team would push it to a ten."
"Segment could be improved by allowing community-based integrations, particularly for integrations available only via webhook that are not natively available, such as those from attribution platforms."
"The challenge is the lack of flexibility in the SDKs, given the capabilities of the destinations."
"The cost is very high, but it is worth it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know how much exactly it costs, but I know that it's a yearly thing. It's something that will cost money for any company because they're storing all this information. They're doing all this machine learning, and there are a lot of services on their backend that they got to pay for. I'm sure it gets translated back to the customers unless you have everything completely on-prem. If you're not doing much in the cloud, then I could see how it'd be cheaper, but if you have anything that's cloud-hosted and does all the work for you, there's going to be a cost associated with it."
"Compared to the competitors, they are very reasonable."
"The pricing was on the higher side but it wasn't excessively high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cyera ?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cyera was that the licensing initially was tricky because it is based on storage as well as user count. I use Cyera to actually identify ho...
What needs improvement with Cyera ?
I think Cyera can improve by expanding beyond Israel.
What is your primary use case for Cyera ?
My main use case for Cyera is security. A quick specific example of how I use Cyera for security is scanning drives for secure information that shouldn't be there. Cyera helps with scanning drives ...
What needs improvement with Segment?
I think Segment can improve in terms of identity management, possibly in some of the protocols by adding more flexibility. I also see the need for more free-form searches such as regex or condition...
What is your primary use case for Segment?
My main use case for Segment is as a CDP to create a centralized view of the customer and help integrate the activation of audiences to downstream services. A specific example of how I use Segment ...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Cyera's customers include the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (Cboe), Granicus, Takeda, LifeLabs, United Talent Agency, ACV Auctions, and Armis
Nokia, rdio, Bonobos, LiveNation, Atlassian
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