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Operationalize the NIST Privacy Framework with BigID

BigID aligns with the NIST Privacy Framework, enabling organizations to identify, govern, control, communicate, and protect privacy and mitigate risks across all data.

NIST Privacy Overview

The NIST Privacy Framework was created to help organizations improve their data privacy posture with proactive risk management through a single unified framework that is scalable and adaptable to emerging challenges across data privacy and protection regulations. The NIST Privacy Framework focuses on five core functions: Identify, Govern, Control, Communicate, and Protect.

BigID helps organizations align with NIST to safeguard personal data, demonstrate accountability, and future-proof privacy programs.

How BigID Aligns with the NIST Privacy Framework

Identify

Automatically discover and classify personal, sensitive, and regulated data across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments to manage risk. To comply with this function, build an accurate and dynamic data inventory and map processing activities across your entire data landscape.

Govern

Create and establish a governance structure to better prioritize and manage risk. Enforce data policies across the data lifecycle via retention, minimization, and access controls aligned with regulatory and compliance requirements.

Control

Apply processing policies (purpose, retention, lawfulness) to control high-risk data. Manage, monitor, and map data and enforce controls to align with internal policy and regulatory requirements.

Communicate

Generate identity-aware reports that communicate what data is being processed and why, establish data transparency for data collection, and track data sharing. Prioritize privacy and security risks, and put controls in place to manage data requests and breach notification.

Protect

Protect high-risk data against cybersecurity events and potential privacy violations. Manage data risk throughout the data lifecycle – classify sensitive data, remediate overexposed and overprivileged data, and minimize the potential attack surface.

Built for Privacy, Trusted by Leaders

Global enterprises trust BigID to:

  • Elevate privacy from a compliance requirement to a strategic advantage.
  • Consolidate fragmented data silos into unified governance.
  • Automate risk-based policies and ensure regulatory alignment.
  • Scale confidently, anticipating future frameworks like C2PA, AI Risk Rules, and beyond.

Whether you’re scaling privacy programs, managing risk, or preparing for new regulations, BigID makes compliance impactful and sustainable.

For Security, Privacy & Compliance Teams Alike

Security & Risk Teams

  • Detect risky data flows and access anomalies
  • Enforce zero-trust controls for personal data
  • Monitor threats affecting privacy posture

Privacy Teams

  • Automate privacy risk assessments
  • Map consent and purpose for processing
  • Fulfill DSARs and build audit logs

Compliance Teams

  • Generate dashboards aligned to NIST core functions
  • Produce regulator-ready evidence: RoPAs, policies, breach logs
  • Streamline assessments and audits

See How BigID Aligns with NIST

Schedule a personalized demo to explore how BigID operationalizes the NIST Privacy Framework—transforming privacy from policy into practice.

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