Relyance AI today announced the commercial availability of Lyo, the industry’s first autonomous data defense engineer designed to monitor and secure how AI agents interact with enterprise data.
Lyo emerges at an inflection point for the cybersecurity industry as autonomous AI agents spread across enterprise environments-gaining access to sensitive data, triggering workflows, provisioning infrastructure, and calling APIs at machine speed. The challenge is no longer locating sensitive data, but understanding how it is being used in real time; something legacy scanning tools, built to show where data lives, were never designed to do. Without context-identity, purpose, flow, and behavior-security teams are left with a dangerous blind spot and a false sense of control. Gartner predicts that by 2027, more than 40% of AI-related data breaches will stem from improper GenAI use alone.
Lyo was built to address this new reality. Powered by Relyance’s AI Data Journeys™, Lyo continuously monitors and attaches business and behavioral context to data activity across code, cloud infrastructure, MCP servers, SaaS applications, identities, third parties, and AI agents.
Meet Lyo: 24/7 Autonomous Data Security
AI agents introduce specific failure opportunities: overprivileged access, hidden non-deterministic data flows, poisoned inputs, third-party model exposure, ephemeral infrastructure, and unpredictable data behavior. Powered by Relyance’s Data Exposure Graph, Data Journeys, Lyo simultaneously monitors an entire data ecosystem, with the following capabilities:
- Unified AI and Data Visibility: Provides comprehensive visibility into both AI and non-AI assets, creating a complete map of your technology stack showing how AI systems and data assets interact.
- Identity-to-Data Intelligence: Maps relationships between AI agents and data assets to identify risky combinations. Identifies when AI agents have overprivileged access to sensitive data.
- Enhanced Contextual Data Classification: Categorizes data sensitivity levels and tracks data flows. Identifies which assets house highly sensitive data and monitors how AI agents interact with that data.
- 24/7 Monitoring & Policy Alerts: Continuously monitors for threats with proactive alerting for security policy violations with unified risk intelligence across data, identity, AI, and behavior
- Conversational Investigation (Ask Lyo): Answers questions via a natural language query interface to help teams prioritize which issues require immediate action, what has the most potential damage/impact, and provides context for security decisions.
- Third-Party Vendor Risk Management: Identifies and monitors vendor-supplied AI components to manage vendor security risks, including third-party MCP servers.
Relyance AI will be demonstrating Lyo and its full platform at RSAC 2026, March 23–26, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. To schedule a meeting or request a demo, visit relyance.ai.
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Relyance AI Announces The Commercial Availability of Lyo
Relyance AI today announced the commercial availability of Lyo, the industry’s first autonomous data defense engineer designed to monitor and secure how AI agents interact with enterprise data.
Lyo emerges at an inflection point for the cybersecurity industry as autonomous AI agents spread across enterprise environments-gaining access to sensitive data, triggering workflows, provisioning infrastructure, and calling APIs at machine speed. The challenge is no longer locating sensitive data, but understanding how it is being used in real time; something legacy scanning tools, built to show where data lives, were never designed to do. Without context-identity, purpose, flow, and behavior-security teams are left with a dangerous blind spot and a false sense of control. Gartner predicts that by 2027, more than 40% of AI-related data breaches will stem from improper GenAI use alone.
Lyo was built to address this new reality. Powered by Relyance’s AI Data Journeys™, Lyo continuously monitors and attaches business and behavioral context to data activity across code, cloud infrastructure, MCP servers, SaaS applications, identities, third parties, and AI agents.
Meet Lyo: 24/7 Autonomous Data Security
AI agents introduce specific failure opportunities: overprivileged access, hidden non-deterministic data flows, poisoned inputs, third-party model exposure, ephemeral infrastructure, and unpredictable data behavior. Powered by Relyance’s Data Exposure Graph, Data Journeys, Lyo simultaneously monitors an entire data ecosystem, with the following capabilities:
Relyance AI will be demonstrating Lyo and its full platform at RSAC 2026, March 23–26, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. To schedule a meeting or request a demo, visit relyance.ai.
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