This summer has been big for Nightfall. From launching Nyx, our AI copilot for DLP, to expanding our detection capabilities across more platforms, we’re making it easier than ever for security teams to protect sensitive data without slowing down work.
In this update, you’ll find new AI-driven features and platform enhancements designed to make your DLP workflows smarter, faster, and more precise. Also, you’re invited to our upcoming webinar on August 19 for security leaders who want to learn about managing shadow AI safely and without slowing down innovation.
Here’s the latest news and updates from Nightfall at a glance:
- Meet Nyx: AI-powered DLP copilot for faster incident response and forensic insights.
- What’s new in Nightfall’s AI Platform: improved PHI detection and a lot more.
- Data Detection and Response for SharePoint Online: extend Nightfall DLP coverage into SharePoint sites.
- Quick hits on new and enhanced Nightfall features: expanded Slack Canvas coverage, Jira ticket history redaction, and enhanced activity logs.
- Webinar: Designing Trust: Embedding Privacy & Security Into Enterprise AI on August 19.
Read on for an in-depth look into each of our new features and updates.
Meet Nyx: Your AI Copilot for Smarter, Faster DLP

Meet Nyx, Nightfall’s new AI-powered DLP copilot built to help SecOps teams work smarter, respond faster, and cut through the noise. Nyx connects the dots across exfiltration events—users, domains, devices, data types, file names, and more—surfacing patterns instantly. Through her natural language conversation interface, you can ask questions, drill into findings, and get forensic insights, reports, and recommended actions in seconds.
Smarter AI, Smoother Workflows: What’s New in Nightfall’s AI Platform


We’re rolling out several enhancements to make your sensitive data detection more accurate and effortless:
- Improved PHI Detection (+10% Precision): Our latest update delivers more reliable Protected Health Information detection across your environment.
- Thumbs Up / Down Feedback: Now you can provide feedback on each finding instantly with a simple thumbs up or down—help us fine-tune detection with fewer clicks.
Coming Soon:
- File Classifier: Detect and classify 20 intellectual and confidential documents types such as customer lists, internal source code, contracts, resumes, finance, etc. (Figure 2)
- Prompt-Based Entity Detector: Define entity detectors in plain language - no regex, context aware. (Figure 3)
- Prompt-Based File Classifier: Build your own AI-powered file classifiers with natural language prompts.
Contact brian@nightfall.ai to join the limited beta for Nightfall’s AI platform, or to help us build Nyx’s roadmap with your feedback.
Data Detection and Response for SharePoint Online is now available
Protect your sensitive data in Microsoft SharePoint Online with Nightfall's latest integration. Our AI-powered detection now extends to SharePoint sites, providing:
- Real-time sensitive data detection in files across SharePoint sites. Filter by permissions, sites, folder paths, and more.
- Automated remediation with support to change permissions, delete files, and more.
- Seamless integration in minutes with your existing Microsoft 365 environment.
- Comprehensive visibility into sensitive data exposure across all SharePoint sites.
Quick hits on new Nightfall features
Slack Canvas
Extend DLP coverage to Slack's collaborative canvas feature. Monitor, detect, and remediate sensitive data shared within Canvas documents, ensuring comprehensive protection with real-time scanning and automated remediation to redact content, delete attachments, and user notifications.
Redaction of history in Jira tickets
Nightfall now supports redaction of content in Jira ticket history. Requirements: Atlassian Guard Premium subscription and re-authorization of Jira via the Nightfall console.
Enhanced activity logs for remediation failures
Nightfall now provides detailed activity logs for remediation failures across Google Drive, OneDrive, and SharePoint Online, including the specific details on why an action failed and improved event status tracking for better operational visibility. Any events where a remediation action failed is updated with an Action Failed status.
Webinar: Designing Trust: Embedding Privacy & Security Into Enterprise AI with Yunique Demann
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Everyone in your organization is asking about AI: how to use it safely, which tools are allowed, and maybe even questions you aren’t hearing or seeing. Are you ready to answer their questions?
On August 19, join us for our discussion on how data security leaders can navigate the tension between AI innovation and risk with Nightfall Head of Product Anant Mahajan and Yunique Demann, VP of InfoSec at TPx.
Hear directly from these two experts as they share real-world insights and strategies from the front lines. And bring your questions for our live Q&A at the end of the discussion.
Don’t get caught unprepared. Join the conversation here.