Is Cyera a competitor to Metomic?

Partially. Cyera's core product is DSPM, data security posture management for cloud, SaaS, and database stores. Metomic is an MCP Gateway built to govern AI agent traffic in real time. Cyera has recently added AI and agent-facing features, so the two now overlap on AI agent risk specifically, even though their core architectures started from different places.

Does Cyera have an MCP Gateway?

Cyera does not market a standalone MCP Gateway. It has Agent Guardian, which tracks tool calls, MCP interactions, and database queries and can intercept some of that traffic through integration points like an AI Gateway plugin and Cyera Endpoint. Cyera also ships its own MCP server, which exposes Cyera's data security findings to AI assistants such as Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor, which is Cyera's data flowing out to an agent, not a gateway inspecting an agent's requests to other tools.

What is the difference between DSPM and an MCP Gateway?

DSPM scans data at rest on a schedule, in cloud storage, SaaS apps, and databases, to build a picture of where sensitive data lives and how it's exposed. An MCP Gateway sits in the live request path between an AI agent and the tools it calls, inspecting and acting on each request as it happens. They answer different questions: DSPM asks where your risk sits today, a gateway asks what this specific agent request is doing right now.

Can Cyera Agent Guardian replace an MCP Gateway?

Agent Guardian adds real-time, agent-facing controls on top of Cyera's DSPM foundation, including inline interception through specific plugin and endpoint integration points. Whether it replaces a purpose-built MCP Gateway depends on how much of your agent traffic actually runs through those integration points versus running through MCP servers Cyera doesn't sit in front of. Worth confirming directly against your own agent stack during evaluation.

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August 6, 2026

By Jessica Hansmann

Metomic vs Cyera: MCP Gateway vs DSPM for AI Agent Risk

Cyera built its name in DSPM and is extending into AI agent security. Metomic built the MCP Gateway from day one. Here's how the two approaches actually differ, and which one closes the gap first.

Cyera and Metomic solve adjacent problems that increasingly overlap. Cyera made its name in DSPM, data security posture management: scanning cloud, SaaS, and database stores to find and classify sensitive data at rest. Metomic was built as an MCP Gateway from the start: a control point that sits between AI agents and the tools they call, inspecting every request as it happens. Cyera has since extended into AI and agent security with products like AI Guardian and Agent Guardian. This guide compares what each platform actually does today, so you can work out which gap you’re closing first.

The short version

Cyera’s foundation is DSPM: agentless, continuous scanning of data at rest across cloud, SaaS, DBaaS, and on-prem stores.
Cyera’s AI-facing products, AI Guardian and Agent Guardian, launched in August 2025 and track tool calls, MCP interactions, and database queries, with inline interception available through specific integration points such as an AI Gateway plugin and Cyera Endpoint.
Cyera also ships its own MCP server, which lets AI assistants like Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor query Cyera’s findings. That’s Cyera’s data going out to an agent, a different job from a gateway that inspects an agent’s requests to other tools.
Metomic is a purpose-built MCP Gateway: it sits in the request path for MCP-connected agents from day one, with no agents on endpoints, and governs traffic through five capabilities, discover, approve, control, redact, and prove.
The two are strongest in different places: Cyera for broad data security posture, Metomic for real-time governance of agent-to-tool traffic.

What does Cyera actually do?

Cyera’s core platform is DSPM. It scans cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, database-as-a-service stores, and on-prem data, without agents, to build a continuous view of where sensitive data lives, how it’s classified, and how it’s exposed. That’s a mature, well-established category, and Cyera is one of its best-known vendors.

Cyera’s move into AI and agent security is newer. AI Guardian, launched in August 2025, combines an AI-SPM component (an inventory of AI assets across the business) with AI Runtime Protection (real-time monitoring of AI data risk). A related product, Agent Guardian, goes further into agent-specific territory: it tracks tool calls, MCP interactions, and database queries, and Cyera describes it as able to intercept interactions inline, blocking dangerous tool calls and redacting sensitive records before a payload reaches an unauthorized destination. That inline behavior runs through specific deployment points, among them an AI Gateway plugin, Cyera Endpoint (a local agent that scans workstation activity, including MCP servers, in real time), and EDR/MDM plugins.

Separately, Cyera ships its own MCP server, announced around RSAC 2026. It lets security teams connect Cyera’s own data security findings directly into AI assistants and agents they already use, such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor. That’s a useful capability, but it runs in the opposite direction from an MCP Gateway: it’s Cyera’s insights flowing out through MCP to an assistant, not a gateway inspecting and governing an agent’s live requests to other tools and data.

What does Metomic’s MCP Gateway do?

Metomic sits in the path of MCP-connected agents themselves, wherever your business uses Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or another agent that calls tools over the Model Context Protocol. It’s hosted and preconfigured, with no agents to install on endpoints, and it works through five capabilities that have to function together to hold up under audit:

Discover. Map every agent, MCP server, copilot, and browser AI tool touching company data, approved or not.
Approve. Keep a living registry of the agents and tools your teams are cleared to use, each scoped to least privilege.
Control. Decide every request inline, in milliseconds: allow it, redact it, hold it for a person, or block it.
Redact. AI Judge weighs what a request actually carries and strips the sensitive part out before it reaches an external model, rather than blocking the whole request over one field.
Prove. Keep a full, streamable record of every agent action, ready for an auditor or a regulator, streamed straight to your SIEM.

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Metomic vs Cyera: feature comparison

	Metomic MCP Gateway	Cyera
Core architecture	Purpose-built inline gateway for MCP-connected agent traffic	DSPM: agentless, continuous scanning of data at rest, extended by newer AI/agent products
Data at rest (cloud, SaaS, DBaaS)	Covered through SaaS/collaboration integrations (Slack, Drive, Jira, Confluence, Notion, and more)	Core strength; Cyera’s original product category
Real-time MCP/agent traffic inspection	Core product, live in the request path from day one	Available via Agent Guardian’s integration points (AI Gateway plugin, Cyera Endpoint, EDR/MDM), launched August 2025
Content-aware redaction	AI Judge redacts sensitive content inline before it reaches an external model	Agent Guardian describes inline redaction of sensitive records through its integration points
MCP server direction	Governs third-party agent requests to tools and data	Also ships its own MCP server exposing Cyera’s own findings to AI assistants
Deployment	Hosted, preconfigured, no endpoint agents, live in minutes	Agentless for DSPM; Agent Guardian’s real-time layer uses endpoint and plugin components
Audit trail	Full agent-action record streamed to your SIEM	Findings and posture data available through the DSPM platform
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II (AICPA)	Not covered in this comparison; confirm directly with Cyera

When Cyera is the right choice

Cyera is a strong choice if your priority is broad, mature data security posture management across cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and database stores, and you want AI-agent controls as an extension of that same platform. If your organization is already standardized on Cyera for DSPM, Agent Guardian and the Cyera MCP server are a natural next step to evaluate before adding a separate vendor.

When Metomic is the right choice

Metomic is the better fit when your priority is a control point purpose-built for MCP-connected agents specifically: something that sits in the request path from day one, needs no endpoint agents, and gives you discover, approve, control, redact, and prove as one product rather than a set of integration points layered onto a posture-management platform. It’s also the stronger fit if deep, agentless coverage across everyday collaboration tools, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Microsoft 365, matters as much as the agent-traffic layer itself.

Key takeaways

Cyera’s foundation is DSPM: continuous, agentless scanning of data at rest across cloud, SaaS, and database stores.
Cyera’s AI and agent security products, AI Guardian and Agent Guardian, launched in August 2025 and add real-time, agent-facing controls through specific integration points.
Cyera’s own MCP server exposes its findings to AI assistants, which is a different job from a gateway that inspects an agent’s live requests to other tools.
Metomic is a purpose-built MCP Gateway: discover, approve, control, redact, and prove, live in the request path from day one, with no endpoint agents.
Many security teams end up running both categories: posture management for data at rest, a gateway for agent traffic in motion.

If you want to see what your own MCP-connected agents are already touching, book a demo of Metomic. For the underlying category question, see What is an MCP Gateway?, and for the CISO-level view of the risk itself, see our MCP Security guide.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Cyera a competitor to Metomic?: Partially. Cyera's core product is DSPM, data security posture management for cloud, SaaS, and database stores. Metomic is an MCP Gateway built to govern AI agent traffic in real time. Cyera has recently added AI and agent-facing features, so the two now overlap on AI agent risk specifically, even though their core architectures started from different places.
Does Cyera have an MCP Gateway?: Cyera does not market a standalone MCP Gateway. It has Agent Guardian, which tracks tool calls, MCP interactions, and database queries and can intercept some of that traffic through integration points like an AI Gateway plugin and Cyera Endpoint. Cyera also ships its own MCP server, which exposes Cyera's data security findings to AI assistants such as Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor, which is Cyera's data flowing out to an agent, not a gateway inspecting an agent's requests to other tools.
What is the difference between DSPM and an MCP Gateway?: DSPM scans data at rest on a schedule, in cloud storage, SaaS apps, and databases, to build a picture of where sensitive data lives and how it's exposed. An MCP Gateway sits in the live request path between an AI agent and the tools it calls, inspecting and acting on each request as it happens. They answer different questions: DSPM asks where your risk sits today, a gateway asks what this specific agent request is doing right now.
Can Cyera Agent Guardian replace an MCP Gateway?: Agent Guardian adds real-time, agent-facing controls on top of Cyera's DSPM foundation, including inline interception through specific plugin and endpoint integration points. Whether it replaces a purpose-built MCP Gateway depends on how much of your agent traffic actually runs through those integration points versus running through MCP servers Cyera doesn't sit in front of. Worth confirming directly against your own agent stack during evaluation.
Which is better for a CISO managing AI agent risk: Cyera or Metomic?: If your priority is a mature, broad data security posture across cloud, SaaS, and database stores, with AI-agent controls as a newer addition, Cyera's DSPM heritage is a real strength. If your priority is a control point purpose-built for MCP-connected agents, live in minutes with no endpoint agents, Metomic is built specifically for that job. Many security teams end up running both: posture management for data at rest, a gateway for agent traffic in motion.