When Incidents Happen, Data Clarity Makes the Difference
When a potential breach happens, time matters – but clarity matters even more.
Security teams are immediately under pressure to answer hard questions:
- What data was exposed?
- Where does it live?
- Who’s impacted — and how bad is it?
The reality is that most incident response efforts slow down at the same point: data breach impact assessment. Even when you know where an incident occurred, understanding what data was actually at risk is far harder than it should be.
At BigID, we don’t wait for an incident to figure this out. We use our own platform internally to continuously understand our data landscape – so when something goes wrong, we can respond with confidence instead of guesswork.
In Episode 7 of Customer Zero Chronicles, Kyle Kurdziolek walks through how BigID uses its own data visibility and context to power faster, clearer, and more accurate impact assessment of a potential breach.
This episode shows what changes when breach response starts with data – not spreadsheets.
What We Uncovered
By using BigID for breach impact assessment internally, we uncovered just how much friction traditional response processes create:
- Limited visibility into what sensitive data actually existed in affected systems
- Difficulty determining whether the data was accessed or simply present
- Manual investigations stitched together with spreadsheets
- Disconnected security and data tools slowing everything down
- Delays in containment, notification, and remediation decisions
We learned that the hardest part of breach response isn’t detection – it’s understanding impact.
What You’ll See (Without Spoilers)
In Episode 7, you’ll get a look at:
- How continuous discovery and classification power faster breach impact assessments
- How BigID surfaces sensitive data types, owners, and locations instantly
- How exposure is correlated with access and activity to understand blast radius
- How impact assessment shifts from days to minutes
- How data-driven context helps prioritize remediation with confidence
Instead of scrambling after the fact, BigID enables a structured, repeatable breach impact assessment workflow — because the insights already exist before an incident occurs.
If you’ve ever been stuck trying to answer “what data was actually exposed?” under pressure, this episode will feel very familiar.
Watch Episode 7: Breach Assessment with BigID
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