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Cyberhaven has emerged as a strong player in the data security space, known for its ability to trace data back to its origins and enforce protections across endpoints, SaaS, cloud, AI, email, and more.
Its agent-based platform delivers real value in scenarios like monitoring uploads, downloads, and endpoint activity, giving organizations an added layer of visibility into how data moves.
These strengths make Cyberhaven a compelling choice for businesses with specific endpoint-centric needs.
At the same time, when applied to SaaS and Cloud environments, it can create some unnecessary friction - lacking the context needed to take effective action without disrupting business workflows and operations.
For organizations that need scalable, context-aware, and user-friendly security, Cyberhaven has some limitations.
In the following sections, we’ll explore three of the most pressing challenges facing organizations as they secure data across SaaS and cloud environments. These are areas where traditional, agent-based approaches often fall short - and where modern, API-driven strategies are proving to be far more effective.
We’ll then highlight how DoControl addresses these gaps, and how our approach differs from legacy solutions still trying to force endpoint-centric models into SaaS-first environments.
Industry Challenge → Agents Are Too Rigid for Modern SaaS Operations
As organizations continue shifting to SaaS and cloud-first environments, the traditional reliance on endpoint agents is phasing out. Agents were initially designed for a world where data primarily lived on devices, not spread across a web of interconnected SaaS platforms.
While they can still provide value at the endpoint level, they often struggle to scale across dynamic, distributed ecosystems. The result is increased friction for employees, higher false positive rates, and limited adaptability to the rapid pace of SaaS collaboration.
What modern enterprises need are agentless, API-driven approaches that provide real-time visibility and control without slowing down business operations.
Cyberhaven’s Approach
Cyberhaven relies on endpoint agents to track and enforce data security. While this can provide visibility into uploads, downloads, and endpoint activity, it comes at a cost. Agents are notoriously rigid, often slowing down devices, generating false positives, and disrupting workflows.
This black and white approach severely hinders business productivity. With a lack of granular access controls for unique scenarios, this rigidity frustrates employees and disrupts basic operations. In SaaS and cloud applications that require quick collaboration, it's a set back.
DoControl’s Advantage
DoControl removes this rigidity through a scalable, API-first, event-driven architecture that operates without agents. Events are identified in real time, with security controls and remediations executed immediately after – keeping pace with the speed of modern business.
Our model delivers comprehensive visibility and control while enabling flexible, user-aware actions – all without slowing down operations or disrupting workflows. DoControl’s customizable policies and workflows seamlessly align with existing business processes, ensuring security enhances operations rather than obstructing them.
DoControl’s API-Driven Architecture > Cyberhaven’s Agent-Based Rigidity
Industry Challenge → Security Without End-User Engagement Hinders Productivity
For modern organizations, security can’t operate in a vacuum - it needs to work hand in hand with the business. This means involving managers or security officers quickly and seamlessly when sensitive actions take place, not just simply blocking everything that seems risky.
By engaging the right people at the right time, security teams gain visibility into everything happening, approvals can be granted just-in-time when needed, and policies stay granular and flexible - enabling the business and allowing for operations to run smoothly while following security guardrails.
Beyond just enabling the business to move faster, this approach also encourages users to stay informed and educated, building a culture where security becomes second nature rather than an obstacle..
Cyberhaven’s Approach
A shortcoming of Cyberhaven is its limited ability to involve end users in data security decisions. Without engaging managers or security officers for specific approvals, organizations often face rigid policies that just simply block the action all together.
What does this lead to? → set backs in productivity, disrupted collaboration, and resentment amongst teams. Security becomes an obstacle rather than an enabler, and tech as well as security adoption suffers.
DoControl’s Advantage
DoControl flips this model by embedding approval workflows directly into everyday business processes. Security teams can set scalable, automated no-code workflows with approval processes that engage managers or specific security officers via Slack or Email only when needed. These critical players are included in making real-time decisions on a case-by-case basis – whether that means approving file sharing, granting access, or confirming sensitive actions.
These just-in-time approval processes not only maintain productivity, but also build a culture of shared security responsibility. Department managers become active participants in safeguarding data, leading to a stronger overall security posture.
DoControl’s Flexible Approval Processes > Cyberhaven’s Limited End-User Engagement
Industry Challenge → Organizations Need Context to Accurately Detect Risk, and Historical Remediation To Swiftly Respond
As data sprawls across countless SaaS applications and cloud repositories, security teams face two major challenges: accurately assessing just how risky an action truly is, and addressing the historical exposure of sensitive data.
Without rich context from sources like HRIS, IdP, and EDR systems, it’s nearly impossible to distinguish between harmless business activity and actual threats, as nuanced as they may be. This is why organizations need a solution that uses context to enrich detection and response.
At the same time, failing to remediate legacy data exposure leaves organizations with blind spots that attackers can exploit. Modern enterprises require both real-time intelligence and the ability to retroactively secure past exposures in order to truly minimize risk.
Cyberhaven’s Approach
Cyberhaven’s security engine lacks deep integration with HRIS, IdP, and EDR systems. This absence of contextual data makes it harder to assess user intent, prioritize risk accurately, and get a true picture of what's actually happening in the environment. Additionally, Cyberhaven can’t retroactively go back and remediate historical data exposure, leaving organizations vulnerable to legacy risks hidden across SaaS repositories and shared files.
DoControl’s Advantage
Here, DoControl provides the intelligence and coverage Cyberhaven lacks. By integrating with HRIS, IdPs, and EDR platforms, DoControl enriches every security decision with valuable context – who the user is, what actions they’re taking, whether or not those actions make sense in relation to their role at the company, and if their actions are truly risky or not.
Our Data Classification engine, combined with our Google Labels scanning capabilities accurately tag sensitive data within files, ensuring precise risk detection. Most importantly, DoControl is uniquely able to remediate historical data exposure, addressing both current and previous risks.
This ensures complete holistic, long-term coverage – making remediation proactive, not just reactive!
DoControl’s Enriched Context and Coverage > Cyberhaven’s Lack of Context and Historical Remediation
Conclusion
Cyberhaven has carved out its niche with endpoint visibility and AI-driven detection. But, in today’s flexible and collaborative SaaS and cloud-first environments, its rigidity, lack of context, and limited user engagement leave gaps for organizations seeking robust, modern, scalable security.
When evaluating data security solutions, every organization must consider its own unique needs, priorities, and operating environment.
While there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, what is clear is that modern enterprises need security platforms that can adapt quickly, integrate seamlessly, and support the way people actually work. Rigid, endpoint-centric tools often struggle to keep up with today’s SaaS- and cloud-driven businesses, creating gaps in visibility, context, and collaboration.
That’s why the industry is moving toward API-driven, context-rich solutions that combine real-time monitoring with flexible workflows and the ability to remediate both current and historical risks.
This is exactly where DoControl stands apart. With its API-first architecture, user-empowered approval processes, and comprehensive coverage, DoControl is purpose-built for the realities of the modern enterprise.
For organizations seeking to scale securely without sacrificing productivity, DoControl isn’t just an alternative to Cyberhaven – it’s the future of SaaS and data security.
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