BigID

BigID is data discovery and classification software for enterprise security, privacy and AI governance teams, sold by quote in three tiers.

BigID is data discovery and classification software for enterprise security, privacy and compliance teams that need to know where sensitive data sits across cloud, SaaS and on-premises sources. It is made by BigID Inc., a company based in New York and founded in 2016. The platform finds and classifies sensitive data in structured, semi-structured and unstructured sources, then ties the findings to access, remediation and privacy work. BigID presents it as one data security platform that covers DSPM, risk remediation, DLP, access, privacy, labeling and deletion. Discovery runs through connectors to 100s of sources, and the deployment is described as agentless and cloud native. Scanning reads tables, files, documents, PDFs, images and logs, and OCR extracts text from scanned documents and image-heavy files. Differential and metadata scanning keep results current without repeated full rescans. Custom classifiers go beyond basic RegEx imports, and NLP-based classification models can be customized and fine-tuned. Access Intelligence shows groups and users with open or extensive access to sensitive data, and Data Access Governance and Activity Monitoring extend that view. Delegated Remediation lets data owners work through findings on their own systems. Pre-trained, AI-supervised classifiers span 100+ languages and cover the cardholder data types listed in PCI DSS. BigID suits security teams running data security posture management, privacy teams that automate data subject access, deletion and portability requests, and governance teams preparing data for AI programs. It is built for large organizations. The Express tier is meant for a focused first project, Business for a growing data and AI security program, and Enterprise for the whole estate at petabyte scale. BigID is bought by quote: a BigID specialist returns with pricing, and the pricing page offers a demo and a risk assessment rather than a trial. BigID sits between the systems that hold data and the tools that act on it. Findings can flow to data catalogs such as Alation, Collibra, Informatica, Atlan and Unity, and to security tools such as Wiz and Splunk. Sensitivity labeling works with Microsoft Purview, including ahead of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Typical jobs include locating regulated data before an audit, closing overshared access, deleting redundant, obsolete and trivial data, and assessing the risk of AI programs and the data behind them.