Cyberhaven vs Digital Guardian
A side-by-side comparison on deployment model, data residency, licensing basis and security coverage. Structural facts are verifiable against vendor documentation; the scored dimensions are our assessment.
Cyberhaven
Cyberhaven
7.1
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- SaaS only
- Licensing
- Per user
- Time to value
- Medium
- Segment
- Mid-market / enterprise
- G2
- —
Digital Guardian
Fortra
7.5
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Hybrid
- Licensing
- Per endpoint or managed service
- Time to value
- Complex
- Segment
- Enterprise
- G2
- —
Score by dimension
| Dimension | CH | DG |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency control | 3 | 7.5 |
| Pricing value | 6 | 5 |
| Detection accuracy | 8.5 | 9 |
| Response speed | 8 | 8 |
| Ease of setup | 7.5 | 6 |
| Management UX | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| Integration depth | 7.5 | 8 |
| Security coverage | 8 | 9 |
Cyberhaven
- +Traces data lineage rather than only matching content, so it catches transformed and renamed files
- +Materially fewer false positives than pattern-matching approaches
- +Investigation workflow shows the full path a file travelled
- −Cloud-delivered with no self-hosted deployment
- −Younger vendor with a smaller install base and less independent analyst coverage
Best for Organisations where intellectual property leaves via transformation rather than obvious copying
Watch out Assess vendor maturity and support depth alongside the technology
Digital Guardian
- +Tracks data lineage at the endpoint, so it can follow a file through copies and renames
- +Available as on-premises, hosted or managed service
- +Particularly strong for intellectual property protection rather than only regulated data
- −Agent footprint and tuning effort are heavier than most alternatives here
- −Pricing sits at the enterprise end, and the managed option adds materially to it
Best for Manufacturers and research organisations protecting intellectual property
Watch out Pilot the agent on real workloads before rollout — performance is the usual complaint
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Data last verified 2026-09-16. nPro publishes this comparison. Where nPro appears as one of the platforms listed, its card is marked and its scores are our own assessment. Third-party review scores are sourced from public vendor profiles. Structural facts — deployment model, licensing basis, residency — are verifiable against each vendor's documentation.