Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Dec 19, 2025
BigID's main use case is connecting to various data sources to perform the data discovery process, classify the data within those systems, and identify sensitive information across various structured and unstructured databases. When connectors are not readily available within BigID, I develop custom connectors to connect to those data sources and complete the data discovery process. I connect to various data sources using BigID, which can be structured databases such as SQL or Oracle, or unstructured databases like OneDrive and SharePoint. In my scenario, the client was using an older version of SharePoint, and since BigID's connector did not support that version in the client environment, I developed a custom connector with support from the BigID team. We deployed it and connected to the client's SharePoint environment to complete the data discovery exercise.
Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Nov 27, 2025
My main use case for BigID includes data discovery and classification, DSAR automation, and data remediation. I use BigID for data discovery and classification in my work by identifying where personal information lies within organizations, which often don't know where their personal information is stored. Organizations may be using or storing client data or any data of their users. When we do data discovery and classification, we get an actual picture of where there's personal data, and sometimes we find places where personal data shouldn't be, raising compliance issues. Regulatory compliance can be costly for organizations, and doing data discovery and classification helps us identify where most of this personal data is located. In addition to data discovery and classification, I can also use BigID for data DSAR automation. Whenever somebody requests their data to be deleted, it's a quicker process than manually retrieving all the information about where their personal data lies, allowing DSAR automation requests to be fulfilled within 72 hours or so.
BigID is part of our data governance project. We onboard data sources in our environment and scan for specific sensitive data sets, such as SSN numbers, passport numbers, and medical information, while working with a US client.
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 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.
Associate at a training & coaching company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Apr 30, 2024
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.
I use the solution to discover sensitive data. I use it when the company I am part of is unable to provide locations of specific data. The goal of the tool is to find data and help companies make a better decision in regards to privacy laws.
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.
Managing Director, Data Governance & Compliance at Ernst & Young
Real User
Dec 12, 2023
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.
Data Governance Operations Consultant/Program Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Jan 7, 2021
In terms of primary use cases for BigID, since I'm a data architect, I get the specific data that is necessary for the client use-case. Then I'll try and do a scan. I do a scan on them, and the scan has parameters. So I set up the scan with some assistance from the admin, and run the scan. When we get the result, it gets populated in the BigID tool. Then I'll go into the BigID tool where there are something like files, I forgot the specific name. I'll look through the files to understand them and try to bring some of them to do an analysis. I can do my analysis in Excel with the data. The way BigID is set up, it's not easy to get all the data straight. To be able to get all the data elements I have to download it somewhere since I'm not in front of the machine.
BigID Next offers advanced data discovery, classification, and governance tools, streamlining compliance with privacy laws while integrating seamlessly with Microsoft platforms.BigID Next provides comprehensive data management through machine learning-enhanced capabilities, supporting data discovery and classification for both structured and unstructured data. By simplifying processes for GDPR and CCPA compliance, and facilitating data scanning and mapping across databases, it optimizes data...
BigID's main use case is connecting to various data sources to perform the data discovery process, classify the data within those systems, and identify sensitive information across various structured and unstructured databases. When connectors are not readily available within BigID, I develop custom connectors to connect to those data sources and complete the data discovery process. I connect to various data sources using BigID, which can be structured databases such as SQL or Oracle, or unstructured databases like OneDrive and SharePoint. In my scenario, the client was using an older version of SharePoint, and since BigID's connector did not support that version in the client environment, I developed a custom connector with support from the BigID team. We deployed it and connected to the client's SharePoint environment to complete the data discovery exercise.
My main use case for BigID includes data discovery and classification, DSAR automation, and data remediation. I use BigID for data discovery and classification in my work by identifying where personal information lies within organizations, which often don't know where their personal information is stored. Organizations may be using or storing client data or any data of their users. When we do data discovery and classification, we get an actual picture of where there's personal data, and sometimes we find places where personal data shouldn't be, raising compliance issues. Regulatory compliance can be costly for organizations, and doing data discovery and classification helps us identify where most of this personal data is located. In addition to data discovery and classification, I can also use BigID for data DSAR automation. Whenever somebody requests their data to be deleted, it's a quicker process than manually retrieving all the information about where their personal data lies, allowing DSAR automation requests to be fulfilled within 72 hours or so.
BigID is part of our data governance project. We onboard data sources in our environment and scan for specific sensitive data sets, such as SSN numbers, passport numbers, and medical information, while working with a US client.
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 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.
We use the solution for database scanning and data protection.
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.
I use the solution to discover sensitive data. I use it when the company I am part of is unable to provide locations of specific data. The goal of the tool is to find data and help companies make a better decision in regards to privacy laws.
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.
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.
In terms of primary use cases for BigID, since I'm a data architect, I get the specific data that is necessary for the client use-case. Then I'll try and do a scan. I do a scan on them, and the scan has parameters. So I set up the scan with some assistance from the admin, and run the scan. When we get the result, it gets populated in the BigID tool. Then I'll go into the BigID tool where there are something like files, I forgot the specific name. I'll look through the files to understand them and try to bring some of them to do an analysis. I can do my analysis in Excel with the data. The way BigID is set up, it's not easy to get all the data straight. To be able to get all the data elements I have to download it somewhere since I'm not in front of the machine.