BigID Reviews

Data discovery is the strongest use case for BigID.

Data classification is highly effective due to its automatic capabilities. One of the best features of BigID is its strength in data discovery and governance.

BigId is a Data Security Posture Management and Data Loss Prevention solution that scans data systems across the enterprise for passwords, secrets, and PII information. 

It offers significant benefits in data discovery, privacy, and security. 

We primarily use it to scan structured and unstructured data across our cloud systems, which consist of 100K+ storage buckets. It is a comprehensive data intelligence platform that helps organizations discover, classify, and manage their data effectively while ensuring data privacy, compliance, and governance.

It helped our organization to find and protect where sensitive data and data discovery, privacy, security, and governance, making it a valuable tool for businesses dealing with large volumes of sensitive information across different data systems.

Before using BigID, maintaining an accurate inventory of data stored in our AWS S3 buckets was challenging due to the data's sheer volume and distributed nature. 

BigID’s advanced scanning capabilities have provided a comprehensive view of all our data assets across S3 buckets, identifying structured and unstructured data. This has given us a clear understanding of our data landscape, enabling better management and utilization of data.

I have used BigID to scan for data discovery, data protection, analyze where the data is found, data classification, and data mapping. I integrated BigID with Microsoft Purview to expand the scope of Purview, especially for scanning Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Drives in a multi-cloud environment.

BigID has allowed for expanded data discovery and classification, particularly in multi-cloud environments. This integration helped automate the business processes when used in combination with Microsoft Purview.

I'm an implementing consulting partner for BigID. Initially, the clients used the solution for compliance with GDPR and CCPA. However, more recently, the software has evolved significantly to be useful for data governance and areas such as security posture and related aspects.

One of the most valuable things in a data-focused world is a tool, a technology that's data-centric, not trying to master data management or whatever else. 

It's a source of truth for what data an organization holds, giving it the ability to catalog, categorize, and understand its data in a way that other technologies like Alation, Collibra, or Informatica didn't afford. So, that's probably the biggest value in the data center.

I work in an area focused on data protection. Currently, in my practice, more than five to six projects use BigID.

In the client's data source, there may be sensitive information. Each country has its own data protection laws and encryption standards. We scanned every database using BigID, both structured and unstructured. 

After scanning, we could properly categorize the data and identify sensitive information. BigID has built-in functions that show where the data is. We sent this information to the client with suggestions for suitable encryption standards for their specific data, whether it's plain text or encrypted.

My organization had a joint venture with BigID, which is the main reason we chose it. Another reason is the support from the BigID team. BigID has frequent updates compared to other products and provides a dedicated support team for developers. 

We can integrate any new product via API connection into ticketing, even if the product is not well-known or brand new. We can also easily update to the latest version or choose an older version if needed. 

These updates can be done independently, without relying on a standard technician or developer. BigID is flexible, so we can upgrade our services as needed, allowing consultants to manage the tasks.

Data discovery capabilities:

BigID offers different scan types for data discovery. The most powerful one is the full scan, which scans both data and metadata. However, the metadata scan is faster in comparison. 

For instance, if a scan is estimated to take three or four days, and it lags behind on the second day, we can skip that module and resume with other modules without disrupting the ongoing scan.

Even if the scan is 90% complete, we can export the data and begin our process. The e-discovery feature has been very useful for us.

My company works with BigID since it serves as a data governance and security management tool. My company currently has a customer for BigID in the pipeline for whom we configured the product's PoC phase recently, so we are planning to close the deal in the first quarter of the upcoming year. While selling BigID to our customers, my company discovered that the product does not solve the problems of its users. The product is meant to help users with the areas related to data and data splits, and users may expect it to cover areas like data masking, data encryption, and DLP. BigID gives users visibility over where a particular data resides in their environment, like whether it is stored in the cloud, on-premises, Google Drive, or whatever other locations are there, after which the product gives its users control of the data. With BigID, users can decide what to do with their data and check whether a particular piece of data has duplicates in several places within their environment, after which users can leave just a copy of such data. In general, BigID gives the user complete control over where a particular data resides. BigID is also involved in the area of compliance. When discussing GDPR, especially EU GDPR, the product helps users remain compliant with the required type of laws since BigID understands the need to do so for the financial sector, especially for the ones that issue ATM cards, where the solution can offer help and cover. BigID does not take care of the security aspects, because of which it does not take care of areas like encryption, data masking, and DLP. What BigID can do for its users is integrate with all the solutions of its users that take care of all the security functions. BigID can help its users by offering its seamless integration capabilities with other security solutions. Considering the aforementioned details, my company has started to provide some sort of a bundled offer to our customers. When we speak with our company's customers about BigID, we also speak to them about Nutanix, which can help handle the security aspect.

BigID's scanning feature is its most valuable component. The scanning feature of the product is used maybe at least every week. BigID doesn't have the ability to store data on a flash drive. The product should also include the attributes to cover or scan flash drives, external drives, and all such areas. It doesn't matter where the data is stored to BigID, as it is going to scan the data and files and show them to the users, after which they can decide what to do with the data. I think that an important feature of BigID is its ability to deal with structured and unstructured data. BigID has the ability to identify which data is personal and has identifiable information. Users of BigID need not worry too much when it provides them with false positives or when some of the scanned data is not accurate. BigID itself is intelligent enough to say that the data it scanned does not contain any sensitive information, so there is no need to worry about anything. BigID also figures out the data that has been duplicated elsewhere, after which it gives users a choice on whether to keep it or delete it. BigID also points out the data that is in somebody's email, after which it asks what its user wants to do with the data. With Big ID, a user can also do something around DLP. BigID asks its users if they want to prevent people from spilling their company's information by copying such information to a flash drive or if they want to get information if somebody has tried copying and pasting the company's information. The aforementioned areas are very important to consider when it comes to trying to achieve organizational security goals or to help with whatever strategy a company follows. The tool helps protect data, making it a product that provides value to the organization.

I like BigID's in-depth discovery and scanning capabilities, especially for unstructured data. This feature is a standout compared to competitors. 
The tool's data classification capabilities are impressive. It offers custom classifiers and a blend of regular exploration and artificial intelligence, making it a next-generation solution. This enhances data security, and its security posture management is straightforward and user-friendly.

Organizations lack a holistic view of their data. They have structured, unstructured, semi-structured, and cloud data spread across various sources. Over the past five to ten years, companies have amassed a significant amount of data, with around twenty to thirty percent being unnecessary. This leads to storage wastage, compliance issues, audit findings, and vulnerability gaps. BigID is the tool that helps identify and provide a holistic view of the data, enabling organizations to take proper control.

Improvement could be made in data consent management and data privacy impact assessment.