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Symmetry Systems wins 2026 SC Award for Best Data Security Solution. Recognition follows strategic partnership with Rapid7 and launch of Symmetry AIGuard, validating Symmetry's position as the leading Data+AI security platform. SAN MATEO, Calif., March 26, 2026 - Symmetry Systems, the Data+AI security company, today announced it has been named the winner of the 2026 SC Award for Best Data Security Solution. Presented by SC Media and CyberRisk Alliance at RSAC 2026, the SC Awards are the cybersecurity industry's most prestigious awards program. Winners were selected by an independent panel of 39 judges from close to 500 nominations across 33 categories. "This year's winners demonstrate clear results, from reduced risk and stronger resilience to better user outcomes," said Kelley Damore, Chief Content Officer, CyberRisk Alliance. "Their achievements reflect what security teams and buyers value most: evidence, execution, and impact." SC Awards judge Aritra Pal, Senior Manager, Strategic Monitoring and Analytics for First Citizens Bank, highlighted what sets Symmetry apart: "[This is] a one-of-a-kind novel product with user intuitive dashboards and unique visualizations. The unique feature that sets it apart from competitors lies in its ability to perform an identity-based data access review." "I'm honored to accept this award on behalf of the entire Symmetry team," said Claude Mandy, Chief Evangelist at Symmetry Systems. "This recognition reflects the tireless work of our engineers, researchers, and customer-facing teams who are building something genuinely different in data security. Coming on the heels of our Rapid7 partnership and the launch of AIGuard, it's a proud moment for everyone at Symmetry." Award caps period of rapid innovation. The 2026 SC Award marks Symmetry's second consecutive year as an SC Awards honoree, following its 2025 finalist selection in the same category. The company was also recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Data Security Posture Management. It also follows a period of significant momentum. In February 2026, Symmetry launched Symmetry AIGuard, a standalone AI security and governance product delivering complete visibility, governance, and control across an organization's entire AI ecosystem - from shadow LLM usage and enterprise copilots to autonomous agentic identities. In March 2026, Symmetry announced a strategic partnership with Rapid7, integrating Symmetry DataGuard's sensitive data and AI intelligence directly into Rapid7 Exposure Command. The strategic reseller and integrated experience makes enterprise-grade data security posture management accessible to a much broader range of organizations. Identity-First, data-centric - built for securing AI. Symmetry takes an identity-first, data-centric approach to security - linking every identity, whether human user, service account, or autonomous AI agent, to the sensitive data it can reach through a continuously updated data access graph. This architecture is uniquely well suited for securing AI. As organizations deploy models, copilots, and agentic systems that consume vast datasets and connect multiple systems through delegated permissions and APIs, Symmetry maps the blast radius of every AI identity and enforces least-privilege access before exposure becomes a breach. Key capabilities include fine-grained access mapping, real-time risk scoring, fully air-gapped deployment, and automated remediation through DataEnforce - which remediates misconfigurations and revokes excess permissions without requiring separate DLP or PAM tools. Press contact. Claude Mandy Symmetry Systems [email protected] Recent blogs. About Symmetry Systems. Symmetry Systems is the Data+AI security company, providing organizations with the industry's only comprehensive Data + AI Security Platform that discovers, classifies, protects, and monitors sensitive data across. Born from award-winning DARPA-funded research at UT Austin, its AI-powered platform delivers comprehensive Data+Ai security across all major cloud environments, SaaS applications, on-premise data stores, legacy systems, and airgapped environments. Its "get everywhere" philosophy continuously expands connector coverage to secure data wherever it lives - in all major cloud environments, SaaS applications, and on-premise data stores-including mainframes, legacy systems and airgapped environments By uniquely merging both identity and data context, Symmetry provides what other DSPM vendors cannot: complete visibility where data exposure meets agentic identities. Organizations use its platform to eliminate unnecessary data, remove excessive permissions, accelerate compliance and cloud migration, and reduce attack surfaces - while safely enabling agentic AI systems with the identity-aware data context they require. Innovate with confidence with Symmetry Systems.

Symmetry brings Data + AI insight to exposure risk - focusing on what matters most with Rapid7. This blog was written in collaboration with Rapid7's Michael Chroney. Symmetry Systems and Rapid7 are partnering to bring enterprise-grade data security posture management to organizations of every size. By integrating Symmetry DataGuard's sensitive data and AI intelligence directly into Rapid7 Exposure Command, the partnership connects two critical but historically disconnected views - where sensitive data lives and who can reach it, and whether real-world attack paths actually lead there. The result is a unified approach to exposure risk that helps organizations reduce blast radius, prioritize remediation by business consequence, and protect what matters most before a breach disrupts the business. Protecting the world's data means reaching every organization that needs it. At Symmetry Systems, its mission is straightforward: protect the world's data. That means giving every organization - not just the largest enterprises - the visibility and intelligence they need to understand what sensitive data they have, who can reach it, and what happens if they do. Its partnership with Rapid7 is a meaningful step toward that mission. By bringing Symmetry DataGuard's sensitive data and AI intelligence into Rapid7 Exposure Command, Symmetry Systems Inc. is making enterprise-grade data security posture management accessible to a much broader range of organizations. Sensitive data defines breach impact. The average data breach now costs $4.44 million, according to IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report. In regulated industries, that figure climbs significantly higher. Behind most of those costs is a common thread: an attacker who gained access to data they should never have been able to reach. The damage any attacker can do is determined almost entirely by what data that identity can reach. Reducing blast radius - before an attacker ever gets the chance to expand it - is the most direct way to reduce breach impact. That is the outcome this partnership is designed to deliver. The rapid adoption of AI agents and copilots across cloud and collaboration platforms has introduced a new class of identity risk that affects organizations of every size. These systems operate with delegated permissions, often aggregating and surfacing data across repositories in ways that are difficult to track and easy to misconfigure. When an identity with access to AI is compromised or the AI misconfigured, the blast radius is not limited to one user's data - it can extend to everything that identity was permitted to touch. Symmetry DataGuard extends sensitive data and identity visibility to AI and machine identities, giving organizations the same clarity into what AI systems can access as they have into human accounts. As AI adoption accelerates across organizations of all sizes, that visibility is no longer a nice-to-have. Two platforms. One unified view of what's actually at risk. Symmetry DataGuard delivers the sensitive data and AI intelligence layer that makes exposure risk more meaningful. It provides: * Continuous sensitive data discovery and classification across cloud and SaaS environments * Identity and permission mapping to understand who can access sensitive data * Over-privileged, dormant, and risky access detection to reduce blast radius * Anomalous activity monitoring to surface data misuse and policy violations * Actionable data vulnerability insights to drive targeted remediation Internet-facing exposure * Identity-driven access paths * Vulnerabilities and exploitability signals * Reachability across cloud and on-prem environments Together, Symmetry's sensitive data insights surface directly within Rapid7 workflows. Teams can see not only where sensitive data lives and who can reach it, but whether real-world attack paths actually lead there. The question shifts from "what is vulnerable?" to "what sensitive data could actually get breached - and what do we fix first?" Enterprise-grade data security, accessible through Rapid7. Through this partnership, organizations working with Rapid7 can now access Symmetry DataGuard's full DSPM capability directly within Exposure Command - without needing to build a separate enterprise procurement process to get there. Sensitive data and AI insights are surfaced natively within existing Rapid7 workflows, and teams can pivot seamlessly into Symmetry DataGuard for deeper investigation, governance, and remediation when they need it. For midsize organizations in particular, this represents a meaningful shift. The same depth of sensitive data intelligence that has historically been available only to large enterprises is now within reach - integrated into a platform many of these teams are already using. The result is measurable regardless of organization size: a smaller blast radius, a stronger regulatory posture, and a remediation strategy focused on what actually matters to the business. To read Rapid7's perspective on the partnership, visit the Rapid7 blog. If you are ready to bring sensitive data and AI insight into your exposure strategy - and focus your efforts on what matters most - connect with Symmetry Systems to get started. Recent blogs. About Symmetry Systems. Symmetry Systems is the Data+AI security company, providing organizations with the industry's only comprehensive Data + AI Security Platform that discovers, classifies, protects, and monitors sensitive data across. Born from award-winning DARPA-funded research at UT Austin, its AI-powered platform delivers comprehensive Data+Ai security across all major cloud environments, SaaS applications, on-premise data stores, legacy systems, and airgapped environments. Its "get everywhere" philosophy continuously expands connector coverage to secure data wherever it lives - in all major cloud environments, SaaS applications, and on-premise data stores-including mainframes, legacy systems and airgapped environments By uniquely merging both identity and data context, Symmetry provides what other DSPM vendors cannot: complete visibility where data exposure meets agentic identities. Organizations use its platform to eliminate unnecessary data, remove excessive permissions, accelerate compliance and cloud migration, and reduce attack surfaces - while safely enabling agentic AI systems with the identity-aware data context they require. Innovate with confidence with Symmetry Systems.

Symmetry Systems launches Symmetry AIGuard: the industry's most comprehensive AI Security and governance platform. Feb 25, 2026, 13:50 ET Symmetry's new stand-alone product delivers unified visibility, governance, and security across external LLMs, enterprise copilots, internal AI services, and agentic AI identities. SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Symmetry Systems, the Data+AI security company, today launched Symmetry AIGuard, a standalone AI security and governance product that gives organizations complete visibility, governance, and control across their entire AI ecosystem - from shadow LLM usage to autonomous agentic identities and the ability to act on what they find, regardless of which team owns it. Symmetry AIGuard shifts parts of Symmetry's proven Data+AI Security product line into a standalone product that secures AI across four critical dimensions. "Organizations are deploying AI faster than they can secure it," said Dr. Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems. "Executives across Technology, Legal, Data and Security need one place to answer: What AI is running? Who's using it? What data can it access? Is it sanctioned? What is it doing? Whether it's a corporate copilot, a shadow LLM, an internal model, or an autonomous agent - Symmetry AIGuard answers all of that - whether it's a corporate copilot, a shadow LLM, an internal model, or an autonomous agent." Four Pillars of AI Security "The question isn't just 'what AI do we have?' - it's 'what can that AI access, and should it? This requires understanding of the intent behind each agent.'" said Mustapha Kebbeh, Chief Security Officer at UKG. "Symmetry is bringing together AI inventory, identity governance, data access intelligence, and compliance monitoring in a single product for the CTO, CIO, CISO, Legal, and Data leaders to use. No other solution currently connects all four." Through Symmetry's innovative approach to merging identity and data context, Symmetry AIGuard delivers what other AI security solutions cannot: complete visibility where AI activity meets the sensitive data it can access. Agentic AI Governance Symmetry AIGuard treats agent identities as first-class security principals, with the same rigor applied to human and service accounts. The platform delivers a complete agent identity inventory: total count, type classification (Copilot Studio, MCP-based, custom frameworks), and registry to keep track of who created each agent and why. For every agent, Symmetry AIGuard maps its permissions, data scope, and blast radius and enforces its policy. A built-in sanctioning workflow tracks approval status and lifecycle state, ensuring no agent operates without authorization. Symmetry AIGuard automatically surfaces high-risk agents: over-privileged agents with excessive permissions, agents accessing sensitive data, agents with destructive capabilities (deleting data, creating user accounts), orphaned agents with no identifiable owner, and dormant agents retaining permissions despite inactivity. "Agentic AI is the next frontier of enterprise risk," added Dr. Tiwari. "These agents act autonomously, access sensitive systems, and make decisions.Yet most organizations have zero visibility into them. If you wouldn't let an employee operate without oversight and access controls, you shouldn't let an AI agent do so either." AI Services Security & Governance Enterprises aren't just consuming AI products - they're building them and deploying them internally into all manner of applications. Symmetry AIGuard inventories every internal AI service by type (predictive, generative, and RAG-based) and by specific environment and instance. For each service: Is it sanctioned? Who owns it? What data does it access? Are there overexposure, regulatory, or data residency issues? This gives security teams the same governance rigor over internal AI that they apply to data infrastructure. Security and data teams can take action on overexposure and access issues from within the same platform - no ticket required. Corporate Copilot Security Building on Symmetry's industry-leading Microsoft Copilot security capabilities, Symmetry AIGuard extends the same proven approach to other enterprise copilots.Unified dashboards answer the questions every copilot deployment raises: Who has licensing and who's active? What data can the copilot access and what exposure needs fixing? Are there compliance gaps, geographic access issues, or users consistently breaking the rules? Overexposed data can be remediated directly, closing the gap between identifying a risk and resolving it. External LLM Governance Symmetry AIGuard monitors both sanctioned and unsanctioned external LLM usage through proxy integrations. As employees adopt ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other services - shadow AI risk grows unchecked. Symmetry AIGuard identifies which models are in use, who is using them, what data is being shared in prompts, and whether usage violates corporate policy. Real-time prompt and response monitoring surfaces violations as they happen. Built on Symmetry's Data-Centric Foundation Symmetry AIGuard is built on the same data and identity graph behind Symmetry DataGuard - with 400+ sensitive data identifiers and 500+ semantic data types. That foundation means AI Guard doesn't just monitor AI activity. It connects every model, agent, service, and user to the sensitive data they can reach - and gives organizations the controls to act on what they find. Availability About Symmetry Systems Symmetry Systems is the Data+AI security company, providing organizations with the industry's only comprehensive Data + AI Security Platform that discovers, classifies, protects, and monitors sensitive data across. Born from award-winning DARPA-funded research at UT Austin, our AI-powered platform delivers comprehensive Data+Ai security across all major cloud environments, SaaS applications, on-premise data stores, legacy systems, and airgapped environments. Our "get everywhere" philosophy continuously expands connector coverage to secure data wherever it lives - in all major cloud environments, SaaS applications, and on-premise data stores (including mainframes, legacy systems and airgapped environments). By uniquely merging both identity and data context, Symmetry provides what other DSPM vendors cannot: complete visibility where data exposure meets agentic identities. Organizations use our platform to eliminate unnecessary data, remove excessive permissions, accelerate compliance and cloud migration, and reduce attack surfaces - while safely enabling agentic AI systems with the identity-aware data context they require. Innovate with confidence with Symmetry Systems.