As the calendar turns to 2025, BigID wants to reflect on a big year of innovation and growth in 2024. This past year saw BigID accelerate investment in development and AI across five geographic sites. Here’s a look back at the milestones that propelled BigID to the forefront of the industry.

1. Breaking Records: The First DSPM to Cross $100M in Revenue

BigID became the first Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) provider to achieve $100M in revenue—a milestone that cements its position as both a Unicorn and a Centaur. This financial achievement underscores BigID’s unparalleled leadership and momentum in the DSPM category.

2. Making History: The First 4-Peat on Deloitte Fast 500 and Inc. 5000

For the fourth consecutive year, BigID earned a spot on the prestigious Deloitte Fast 500 and Inc. 5000 lists. No other data security vendor has matched this streak, showcasing BigID’s consistent growth and dominance in the sector.

3. Analyst Darling: A Leader in Three Major 2024 DSPM Reports and more

In 2024, BigID achieved an unprecedented trifecta, being named a leader in every major analyst report on DSPM. This recognition highlights BigID’s comprehensive approach and excellence across the board. In 2024, BigID was named a leader in privacy management, deduplication, data access governance, and more.

4. Revolutionizing Cloud-native Scanning: Patent-Pending Secure Snapshot Technology

BigID transformed cloud-native DSPM scanning with the first Snapshot Scanning technology that overcomes the supply chain risk and lack of actionability of current implementations. Collaborating with Amazon, BigID eliminated the need for elevated permissions, ensuring compliance with corporate stringent privacy and security controls. This patent-pending innovation not only protects data but also enables actionable remediation for the first time.

5. Driving Customer ROI. Pioneering Data Retention and Minimization Functionality 

BigID introduced the industry’s first end-to-end data retention and minimization solution for comprehensive data lifecycle management. From detecting stale, duplicate, and ROT (redundant, obsolete, trivial) data to managing retention schedules and executing data deletion with legal hold and referential integrity safeguards, BigID empowers organizations to streamline their data lifecycle while ensuring compliance and data integrity.

6. AI First: Global Recognition for AI Excellence

BigID won the first international competition for data classification accuracy in AI, judged by Intuit, setting a new benchmark for AI-driven innovation in data security with quantifiable results demonstrating the fastest and most accurate data classification capabilities across 20 of the leading DSPM and DSP vendors. 

7. Data-Driven Privacy: BigID Launched the 1st AI-Powered, Data Dynamic Privacy Suite

BigID unveiled the first true data-driven, AI-powered privacy add-ons on top of its core discovery, classification, and DSPM. The reimagined modules move privacy management past manual, process-based privacy tools to deliver a unified AI augmented and Data adaptive set of modules across privacy assessments, RoPA, consent management, cookies, DSR, preference management, business level data mapping, vendor management, risk register and more.

8. Certified Leadership in Cloud Data Management

BigID became the first DSPM and compliance solution certified by the EDM Council in the CDMC Cloud Data Management Framework. This certification, achieved in collaboration with industry leaders like AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, and Microsoft, reaffirms BigID’s leadership in cloud adoption and governance. And this builds on BigID’s continued cloud certification leadership with the first DSPM cloud to receive HIPAA, FIPS, PCI certification. 

9. AI Powered AI Governance 

BigID added new category-first capabilities in data preparation for AI including curation, categorization, cleansing and compliance for AI-ready data. BigID also expanded its identity access capabilities to LLMs with new functionality for automatically discovering models and assets, mapping data access lineage to models, management of sensitive data in RAG and documenting AI risk.

10. Deepening Leadership in Access Security

2024 saw a flurry of groundbreaking launches, including access activity monitoring that goes beyond Data Detection and Response (DDR), a new access compliance dashboarding, AI-guided access security controls, and access controls for Microsoft Copilot. These innovations continue to set new standards in the industry

Looking Ahead to 2025

2025 is shaping up to be BigID – we’ve got some big things on the horizon, and looking forward to an even bigger and brighter 2025.