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Data Intelligence โ€ข Security โ€ข Privacy โ€ข AI

The Data Intelligence Company Built for the AI Era.

BigID helps organizations know their data, understand their risk, govern access, protect sensitive information, and confidently use enterprise data and AI.

From discovery and classification to DSPM, privacy automation, identity security, AI security, and AI governance, BigID connects the context organizations need to move from visibility to action.

About BigID

What Does BigID Do?

BigID is a data intelligence platform that helps organizations discover, classify, secure, govern, and manage enterprise data and AI. BigID connects data sensitivity with identity, access, activity, lineage, ownership, policy, and business context so teams can reduce risk, automate compliance, strengthen privacy, and safely adopt AI.

Discover Find sensitive, regulated, confidential, proprietary, and AI-connected data across the enterprise.
Understand Connect data to identities, permissions, activity, lineage, ownership, models, agents, and business context.
Protect Prioritize exposure, enforce least privilege, monitor activity, and automate risk remediation.
Govern Operationalize privacy, compliance, lifecycle management, and AI governance with auditable controls.

The BigIDea That Changed Everything

Data-First From the Start. Built for What Came Next.

BigID began with a simple idea: security, privacy, and governance should start with the data itselfโ€”not only with networks, endpoints, or compliance checklists.

2016

Start With the Data

BigID was founded to give organizations a deeper understanding of what data they have, whose data it is, where it lives, how it is used, and why it matters.

A new foundation

Privacy, security, and governance informed by data context.

Pioneer

Identity-Aware Discovery

BigID introduced data discovery and classification that connected sensitive information with identity, ownership, usage, and enterprise context.

More than location

Understand what data means and who it affects.

Expand

From Insight to Action

BigID expanded beyond discovery to help organizations automate privacy, manage compliance, reduce excessive access, protect data, manage retention, and remediate risk.

Actionable intelligence

Find risk, prioritize it, and take governed action.

Today

Connect Data, Identity, and AI

BigID now helps organizations discover AI assets, govern the data behind AI, secure human and non-human identities, reduce AI access risk, enforce policy, and support trusted AI adoption.

Enterprise AI trust

Visibility, accountability, control, and evidence across data and AI.

BigID Today

One Intelligence Layer Across Data, Identity, and AI.

BigID brings discovery, security, privacy, governance, identity context, and AI intelligence together so organizations can understand what matters and act on risk with confidence.

01

Know

Discovery and Classification

Discover and classify structured, unstructured, cloud, SaaS, on-premises, hybrid, developer, and AI-connected data with context for sensitivity, identity, ownership, lineage, and business value.

Explore Discovery and Classification โ†’
Complete data visibility

Understand what data exists, where it lives, and why it matters.

02

Protect

Data and Identity Security

Connect sensitive data to human users, machine identities, service accounts, applications, APIs, and AI agents to identify exposure, excessive access, risky activity, and toxic permission combinations.

Explore Identity Security โ†’
Risk with context

Prioritize the identities and permissions that expose critical data.

03

Automate

Privacy and Compliance

Automate data mapping, privacy rights, consent, assessments, retention, deletion, policy enforcement, evidence collection, and regulatory reporting from a shared data intelligence foundation.

Explore Privacy Management โ†’
Operational governance

Replace fragmented manual processes with governed workflows.

04

Govern

AI Security and Governance

Discover models, agents, copilots, prompts, datasets, vector stores, pipelines, and shadow AI. Connect AI systems to sensitive data, identities, permissions, lineage, ownership, policy, and risk.

Explore AI Security and Governance โ†’
Trusted AI adoption

Move from AI principles to enforceable controls and evidence.

Our Mission

Help Organizations Protect What Matters and Unlock What Is Possible.

BigID exists to help organizations earn trust, protect sensitive information, reduce risk, and responsibly unlock the value of data and AI.

That means giving security, privacy, compliance, data, identity, and AI teams a shared intelligence layerโ€”one that replaces disconnected findings with context, accountability, automation, and action.

01
Start With Data

Trust begins by understanding the information an organization collects, creates, shares, and uses.

02
Connect the Context

Data becomes actionable when it is connected to identity, access, activity, ownership, lineage, policy, and AI.

03
Move From Insight to Action

Visibility should lead to prioritized remediation, policy enforcement, measurable control, and evidence.

Our Executive Team

Leadership Built for Enterprise Data and AI.

BigIDโ€™s leadership team brings experience across cybersecurity, identity, data management, privacy, cloud, enterprise software, and customer success.

Dimitri Sirota, CEO of BigID

Dimitri Sirota

CEO

eTunnels, Layer 7 Technologies, CA Technologies
Nimrod Vax, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of BigID

Nimrod Vax

Co-Founder and CPO

Business Layers, Netegrity, CA Technologies
Avi Aronovitz, Chief Financial Officer of BigID

Avi Aronovitz

CFO

Marc DeGaetano, Chief Revenue Officer of BigID

Marc DeGaetano

Chief Revenue Officer

Symantec, Tanium, Rubrik
Sarah Hospelhorn, Chief Marketing Officer of BigID

Sarah Hospelhorn

Chief Marketing Officer

Varonis, MakerBot
Eyal Sacharov, Senior Vice President of Research and Chief Architect at BigID

Eyal Sacharov

SVP Research & Chief Architect

CA Technologies, Eurekify
Scott Sunday, Chief Customer Officer of BigID

Scott Sunday

Chief Customer Officer

Collibra, Talend
Mahesh Chukkapali, Chief Operating Officer of BigID

Mahesh Chukkapali

Chief Operating Officer

Palo Alto Networks, HackerOne, Google

Board of Directors

Strategic Leadership for Enterprise Data and AI.

BigIDโ€™s board brings experience across cybersecurity, enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, data management, financial services, investment, and company growth.

Jay Leek, BigID board member

Board Member

Jay Leek

Managing Partner SYN Ventures
Cybersecurity Strategy

Experience supporting cybersecurity companies, security innovation, enterprise risk management, and technology growth.

Ariel Tseitlin, BigID board member

Board Member

Ariel Tseitlin

Partner Scale Venture Partners
Cloud and Enterprise Software

Experience in cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, cybersecurity, and scaling technology companies.

Gil Beyda, BigID board member

Board Member

Gil Beyda

Managing Partner Genacast Ventures
Technology and Innovation

Experience in early-stage technology, enterprise software, digital innovation, and strategic company development.

Ed Sim, BigID board member

Board Member

Ed Sim

Partner BOLDStart Ventures
Enterprise Technology

Experience building and supporting enterprise software, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and developer-focused companies.

Alex Ferrara, BigID board member

Board Member

Alex Ferrara

Partner Bessemer Venture Partners
Cloud and Cybersecurity Growth

Experience supporting cloud, infrastructure, security, and enterprise software companies through long-term growth.

Sigal Zarmi, BigID board member

Board Member

Sigal Zarmi

Technology Executive Morgan Stanley
Enterprise Technology Leadership

Experience across global technology operations, digital transformation, financial services, governance, and enterprise risk.

Our Investors

Backed by Leaders in Enterprise Technology.

BigID is supported by global technology investors with experience building and scaling category-defining companies across cybersecurity, cloud, data, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

Company Resources

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Careers

Join BigID

Explore opportunities to help shape the future of data security, privacy, identity, and AI governance.
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News

BigID in the News

Follow company announcements, product innovation, recognition, and industry developments.
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About BigID

BigID Frequently Asked Questions.

What is BigID?

BigID is a data intelligence platform that helps organizations discover, classify, secure, govern, and manage enterprise data and AI across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, hybrid, structured, and unstructured environments.

What problems does BigID solve?

BigID helps organizations identify sensitive data, reduce data and identity risk, automate privacy and compliance, govern access, manage the data lifecycle, discover AI systems, secure AI access, and operationalize AI governance.

How is BigID different?

BigID starts with the data and connects it to identity, access, activity, ownership, lineage, policy, business context, and AI. This gives teams the context needed to prioritize risk and move from discovery to enforcement and remediation.

Does BigID support AI security and governance?

Yes. BigID helps organizations discover AI assets and shadow AI, govern the data behind AI, map AI lineage, secure AI identities and access, assess AI risk, enforce policies, and generate audit-ready evidence.

Where can BigID discover and govern data?

BigID supports enterprise data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, hybrid, structured, unstructured, collaboration, developer, and AI environments.

See BigID in Action

Know Your Data. Understand the Risk. Take Action.

See how BigID connects data, identity, access, activity, lineage, policy, and AI to help your organization reduce risk, automate governance, protect sensitive information, and confidently use data.

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