Organizations face mounting pressure to establish consistent governance across their data and AI assets. Meeting these complex requirements while enabling innovation challenges even the most sophisticated enterprises. In response, Databricks recently open-sourced Unity Catalog, providing an open governance foundation that supports both current operations and future innovation.

BigID extends Unity Catalog’s capabilities through advanced data discovery and classification. This integration enables organizations to automatically identify sensitive data, apply granular controls, and enforce consistent policies throughout their data pipeline. The combined solution delivers efficient, automated governance that scales with enterprise needs.

Automated Data Intelligence Meets Unified Governance

BigID’s integration with Databricks Unity Catalog delivers bi-directional metadata synchronization, delivering three core benefits:

Efficiency Through Automation

  • Deploy automated data discovery and classification across workspaces
  • Reduce manual governance tasks and resource drain
  • Establish automated security controls that scale

Confidence in Data Access

Consistency Across Systems

  • Create a single source of metadata truth
  • Enrich enterprise catalogs with deep data context
  • Unify governance processes enterprise-wide

Comprehensive Data Pipeline Protection

BigID Databricks Integration Application

BigID and Unity Catalog secure data throughout its lifecycle by identifying risks, synchronizing metadata, and enforcing policies automatically. The integration protects data at three critical stages:

Secure Data at Ingestion

  • Scan incoming data for sensitivity and risk exposure
  • Identify and eliminate redundant, obsolete, and trivial data (ROT)
  • Ensure clean data flows into staging environments

Protect After Transformation

Control Data Consumption

  • Push policy execution such as RBAC through Unity Catalog
  • Apply column masking and row filtering with the BigID Governance & Security App for Databricks
  • Maintain consistent policies throughout the data lifecycle
BigID Databricks Connector Supports Unity Catalog

Future-Ready Governance

The BigID Governance & Security App for Databricks now includes enhanced enterprise-scale features and tag-based governance capabilities. Future releases will support attributes-based access control (ABAC) automation when this feature becomes generally available from Databricks.

Advancing Data and AI Governance

BigID and Databricks deliver comprehensive data protection from ingestion to consumption. This unified approach combines automated data discovery, security policy enforcement, and centralized governance across workspaces. Organizations require robust data security and governance to mitigate risks as they accelerate traditional data projects and AI initiatives.
BigID protects data throughout the AI development lifecycle. The platform scans training datasets, monitors vector databases, and examines external repositories like Hugging Face to identify and safeguard sensitive data information. Advanced classification capabilities provide organizations clear visibility and control over sensitive information through AI development processes.

Organizations build reliable AI models with automated discovery and data protection while maintaining strong security and compliance standards. BigID and Databricks together drive AI innovation forward while maintaining strong governance controls.

Experience Automated Data Governance

Book a 1:1 demo with our team to see how BigID and Databricks streamline governance across data and AI initiatives. The interactive session will showcase automated classification, policy enforcement, and Unity Catalog integration capabilities in action.