What Atlan crawls from Cyera
Once you have crawled Cyera, you can use connector-specific filters for quick asset discovery. This document provides details on the metadata and assets that Atlan crawls from Cyera.
Snowflake is the only Cyera Datastore type presently supported for Atlan integration.
Cyera enriches metadata at the table and column level: classifications, custom metadata, and sensitivity context are applied to table and column assets in Atlan that correspond to assets Cyera has scanned and classified. Security issue findings are applied at the database level.
Asset types
Cyera enriches Snowflake assets in Atlan. The table below maps what Cyera tracks to the corresponding Atlan asset types.
| Cyera source | Atlan asset type | Enrichment applied |
|---|---|---|
| Table | Table | Cyera tags and Cyera custom metadata |
| Column | Column | Cyera tags and Cyera custom metadata (classified columns only) |
| Database | Database | CyeraIssues custom metadata |
Classifications
Atlan maps Cyera data classifications discovered during scans to Atlan Tags on the associated table and column assets. Tags are named using the format {Classification Name} (Cyera Data Class) (for example, a Cyera classification of Address becomes the Atlan tag Address (Cyera Data Class)).
Regional suffixes in Cyera classification names (for example, Address California or Postal Code Texas) are stripped so that a single tag represents the base classification. The original classification names are preserved in the tag's source ID for reference.
Both system-assigned and user-assigned classifications in Cyera are sourced and applied as Atlan Tags, which can then be propagated like regular Atlan Tags. Because they behave like any other Atlan Tag, Cyera-sourced tags can also be used as filter criteria in Atlan Playbooks to drive automated governance actions—for example, automatically marking columns tagged with Credit Card Number (Cyera Data Class) as requiring review.
Assigning values for Cyera-sourced Tags on Atlan and reverse-sync of those values back to Cyera is currently not supported.
Custom metadata
Atlan stores Cyera-discovered scan attributes in two custom metadata sets. The fields below are Atlan-side representations of Cyera-enriched metadata: field names reflect how the data appears in Atlan rather than the originating Cyera API response field names.
Cyera (table and column assets)
The Cyera custom metadata set contains classification and data sensitivity attributes discovered by Cyera scans. These are applied to both Table and Column assets. Table rows always include metadata (even when a table has no table-level classifications), while column rows are created only for columns with at least one classification.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cyera UID | Text | Unique identifier of the asset in Cyera |
| Cyera URL | URL | Direct link to view the asset in the Cyera platform |
| Sensitivity | Text | Sensitivity level assigned by Cyera (for example, Sensitive, NotSensitive) |
| Identifiability | Text | Identifiability context for the classified data |
| Classification Group | Text | Classification group assigned by Cyera (for example, Personal Information) |
| Data Category | Text | Data category assigned by Cyera for detected classifications |
| Role | Text | Role context associated with the classification |
| Geo Locations | Text | Geographic context values associated with the classified data |
| Data Subject Age | Text | Data subject age context from Cyera classification |
| Business Context | Text | Business context labels from Cyera classification |
| Collections | Text | Collections attached to the Cyera classification |
| Custom Collections | Text | Custom collections attached to the Cyera classification |
| Last Classified At | Text | Timestamp of the most recent Cyera classification update |
| Record Count | Integer | Total number of records in the table as reported by Cyera |
| Sensitive Record Count | Integer | Number of records containing sensitive data |
| Identified | Boolean | Whether Cyera marks the value as identified |
| Tokenization | Boolean | Whether the data is tokenized (True) or in plain text (False) |
| Synthetic | Boolean | Whether the data is synthetic (True) or real (False) |
| Sensitivity Facet | Options | Filter-friendly sensitivity value synced from Cyera |
| Classification Group Facet | Options | Filter-friendly primary classification group from Cyera |
| Data Category Facet | Options | Filter-friendly primary data category from Cyera |
| Identifiability Facet | Options | Filter-friendly primary identifiability value from Cyera |
CyeraIssues (database assets)
The CyeraIssues custom metadata set contains security issue findings detected by Cyera, aggregated at the Database level. Issues are grouped by datastore and applied to the corresponding database asset in Atlan.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Issue Count | Integer | Total number of Cyera issues for this database |
| Critical Count | Integer | Number of critical-severity issues |
| High Count | Integer | Number of high-severity issues |
| Medium Count | Integer | Number of medium-severity issues |
| Low Count | Integer | Number of low-severity issues |
| Open Issues | Integer | Number of currently open (unresolved) issues |
| Top Issues | Text | Summary of the top issues by severity (up to 5), with links to each issue in Cyera |
| Remediation Advice | Text | Recommended remediation steps from Cyera for the most critical issues |
| Last Updated | Text | Timestamp of the most recently updated issue |
| Cyera Datastore URL | URL | Direct link to view the parent datastore in the Cyera platform |
| Frameworks | Text | Compliance frameworks associated with the issues (for example, PCI DSS, SOC2, NIST) |
| Highest Severity | Options | Highest severity among unresolved Cyera issues |
| Framework Facet | Options | Primary filter-friendly framework derived from Cyera |
You can filter assets by either custom metadata set using the Custom Metadata Filters panel on the Assets page.
See also
- How Atlan connects to Cyera: Connection protocols, authentication, and security
- Set up Cyera
- Crawl Cyera