Data security and governance often operate in isolation. Security teams focus on identifying and reducing risk. Governance teams manage access, policy, and accountability. Without shared context, sensitive data gets overlooked, misclassified, or left exposed.
The pressure is growing. AI is driving rapid data use, regulations are evolving, and the volume of sensitive data keeps climbing. Most teams still rely on disconnected tools, static policies, and manual workflows. That leaves blind spots and delays, especially when sensitive data moves across systems.
BigID and Atlan are solving this together. By bringing BigID’s classification and risk intelligence into Atlan’s Metadata Lakehouse, we’re helping organizations take faster action, improve governance, and embed security into every step of the data lifecycle.
What’s New
BigID is the first Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution available in the Atlan Marketplace. This integration provides organizations with a new level of control by combining BigID’s deep data insights with Atlan’s collaborative metadata lakehouse.
This unified approach enables governance teams to manage sensitive data more effectively, with reduced manual effort and greater impact.
How It Works
The integration centers on BigID’s ability to discover, classify, and tag sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Those metadata tags, along with policy violations and risk signals, flow directly into Atlan to support automated governance workflows.
Key capabilities include:
Automated Metadata Tagging
BigID automatically classifies sensitive data across your environment and syncs metadata tags into Atlan’s Lakehouse, so governance teams can immediately act on high-risk data with context-rich insights.
Policy Violation Alerts
BigID flags issues like PII exposure, regulatory violations, or unapproved data locations, then pushes alerts into Atlan’s data catalog as asset announcements to enable in-context remediation.
Automated Policy Enforcement
Tags from BigID can initiate workflows in Atlan to decertify data products, assign remediation tasks, or apply access controls, without relying on manual intervention.
Lineage-Based Tag Propagation
When BigID tags sensitive data, those tags follow the data through Atlan’s lineage graph. This enables rule-based actions like decertifying downstream assets or flagging data products for review.
In-Workflow Context for Business Users
With Atlan’s Embedded Experience, business users see BigID tags and alerts directly inside tools like Tableau or Power BI, increasing data trust without leaving their daily workflows.
Figure 1: BigID policy violations surfaced in Atlan’s Data Catalog
Why It Matters
This integration changes how teams govern sensitive data from a manual, reactive process into a continuous, intelligence-driven one. It brings together the strengths of both platforms:
- Governance teams gain visibility into live risks, enabling them to prioritize and enforce policy with confidence.
- Security teams gain lineage-aware insights and governance context to help accelerate response.
- Business users gain trusted, contextualized data — exactly where they work.
With BigID and Atlan, organizations can finally unify governance and security into a single, collaborative ecosystem, reducing risk, improving compliance posture, and scaling policy enforcement across the data lifecycle.
Figure 2: BigID tags embedded in Atlan Data Lineage Graph
Solving Industry-Wide Challenges
This joint solution helps tackle key data governance and security pain points:
- Siloed governance and security platforms
- Lack of visibility into where sensitive data lives
- Manual, slow, or incomplete policy enforcement
- Limited context for analysts and data consumers
- Disconnected lineage, metadata, and response workflows
A First in the Atlan Marketplace
BigID is the first DSPM partner featured in the Atlan Marketplace, a milestone that reflects the growing demand for connected governance and security.
The integration is now available in public preview. Organizations can deploy in self-hosted or SaaS environments and immediately begin surfacing sensitive data classifications, alerts, and governance signals into Atlan for action.
Together, BigID and Atlan deliver a smarter, more automated way to govern sensitive data across the enterprise.
Learn More
- Explore the Integration on Atlan Marketplace
- Book a Demo
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