“Nyx” delivers intelligent detection investigation and policy tuning to usher in the next era of agentic AI in data protection
Nightfall unveiled Nightfall Nyx, the industry’s first autonomous Data Loss Prevention (DLP) platform that combines precision AI detection with agentic capabilities to automatically detect insider threats, investigate incidents, and continuously optimize data security policies. This new release builds on Nightfall’s vision of autonomous data protection, shifting security operations from reactive and manual to proactive, intelligent threat prevention that scales with organizational growth.
Security operations teams struggle with complex tools, legacy pattern-matching DLP, manual policy tuning, and alert fatigue. These issues slow investigations, increase overhead, and reduce security effectiveness. While traditional DLP solutions aim to tackle these challenges, they require constant human intervention, generate high false positive rates, and often miss sophisticated threats that bypass simple pattern recognition.
Nyx offers a new approach: an always-on security assistant that integrates Nightfall’s industry-leading AI detection with intelligent automation and natural language interaction. The new release eliminates the need for specialized domain expertise, and moves beyond legacy pattern-matching to AI-native detection. By autonomously tuning policies and reducing noise over time, Nyx transforms alert fatigue into focused, high-impact security actions across SaaS, endpoints, and AI tools.
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“Security teams are drowning in alerts while sophisticated insider threats slip through legacy DLP systems,” said Rohan Sathe, CEO and Co-founder of Nightfall. “When analysts spend hours investigating false positives only to discover that real threats went undetected because they didn’t match a predefined pattern, organizations aren’t just losing time—they’re losing control over their most sensitive data. Nightfall Nyx gives security teams an intelligent partner that not only catches what traditional tools miss but gets smarter with every investigation, turning weeks of manual forensics into minutes of focused response.”
Nightfall’s Nyx annotation-driven supervised learning system enables instant classification for intellectual property and confidential documents while maintaining contextual risk scoring based on content, file lineage, source and destination domains, and user behavior patterns.
Unlike traditional DLP solutions that rely on static rules and pattern matching, Nightfall‘s Nyx addresses the dynamic nature of modern data threats where sophisticated insider risks and data sprawl require intelligent, context-aware detection. The platform maintains persistent memory of investigations, allowing security teams to resume complex cases with full historical context.
Key features of Nightfall’s Nyx include:
- Built-in AI Copilot in Console: Embedded AI assistant for natural language investigation and analytics that proactively tunes detection policies.
- Real-Time Threat Detection & Risk Prioritization: AI-native detection using LLMs, transformers, and computer vision, with custom file and sensitivity classifiers that uncover movement of intellectual property and high-value documents beyond simple rules-based entity detection
- Noise Reduction through Continuous Learning: Content and file lineage understanding that reduces false positives, learns from user annotations and actions, and identifies safe workflows to suppress low-risk activity
- Cross-Platform Intelligence: Unified visibility across SaaS, endpoints, browsers, email, and Shadow AI with correlated insights that enable faster, more holistic threat response
Source: PRNewswire
