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Microsoft 365 • Data Discovery • Classification

Discover and Protect Sensitive Data Across Microsoft 365.

BigID connects securely to Microsoft 365 using agentless APIs to discover, classify, and contextualize sensitive data across SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, files, messages, and attachments.

Identify regulated and confidential content, understand sharing and permission exposure, align classifications with Microsoft security controls, and extend consistent governance across your enterprise.

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How Does BigID Protect Data in Microsoft 365?

BigID uses secure, agentless Microsoft 365 APIs to inspect actual content across SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, files, messages, email bodies, and attachments. It classifies sensitive information, identifies sharing and permission exposure, and connects findings to enterprise security, privacy, compliance, and governance workflows.

Content-Level Discovery Analyze actual files, messages, emails, attachments, and data values—not only names or metadata.
Sensitive Data Classification Identify personal, financial, employee, regulated, confidential, and custom-defined information.
Access Exposure Find external sharing, public files, guest access, inherited permissions, and broadly accessible content.
Unified Governance Align Microsoft 365 findings with enterprise policies, labels, reporting, and remediation workflows.

Coverage Across Microsoft 365

Discover Sensitive Data Across Collaboration and Communication.

BigID scans structured and unstructured Microsoft 365 content without requiring endpoint agents or disrupting how employees collaborate.

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Collaboration

SharePoint Online

Discover and classify sensitive information across SharePoint sites, document libraries, folders, shared workspaces, and collaboration content.

Visibility into

Documents, permissions, ownership, sharing, exposure, and content sensitivity.

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Cloud Files

OneDrive for Business

Identify regulated, confidential, personal, and business-critical data stored in individual and shared OneDrive environments.

Visibility into

Sensitive files, external sharing, broad access, stale content, and user-owned information.

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Communication

Microsoft Teams

Extend discovery across Teams-shared files, collaboration workspaces, conversations, and chat-related content where supported.

Visibility into

Team files, channel content, sensitive messages, collaboration exposure, and connected SharePoint data.

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Email

Exchange Online

Analyze mailbox content, email bodies, attachments, and embedded documents to identify sensitive or regulated information.

Visibility into

Email content, attachments, personal data, financial information, confidential records, and policy risk.

The BigID Advantage

Go Beyond Native Visibility With Data-Aware Context.

BigID connects Microsoft 365 content discovery with classification, access exposure, privacy, security, lifecycle, and governance workflows.

Content Intelligence

Analyze What the Data Contains—not Just Where It Is Stored.

BigID inspects actual content and data values across documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, emails, messages, and attachments to identify sensitive information accurately.

Deep Content Inspection Detect sensitive content inside files, messages, email bodies, embedded documents, and attachments.
Custom Classification Identify personal, financial, employee, industry-regulated, confidential, proprietary, and organization-specific information.
Sharing Risk Context Connect sensitive data to external sharing, guest access, public exposure, group permissions, and inherited access.
Microsoft Label Alignment Support Microsoft Information Protection labels and Purview-based classification and governance strategies.
Enterprise-Wide Policies Apply consistent classification across Microsoft 365, cloud platforms, SaaS systems, storage, databases, and AI environments.
Actionable Governance Use discovery results for exposure reduction, reporting, retention, privacy, remediation, and compliance workflows.

Technical Advantages

Scalable Microsoft 365 Coverage Without Endpoint Agents.

BigID provides secure, API-based discovery designed for modern, distributed Microsoft 365 environments.

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Content-Based Scanning

Inspect documents, email bodies, messages, attachments, and collaboration artifacts for sensitive-data detection.

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Agentless Integration

Connect securely through Microsoft 365 APIs without endpoint agents, infrastructure changes, or ETL pipelines.

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Permission Analysis

Identify external sharing, broadly accessible groups, inherited permissions, guest access, and overexposed sensitive data.

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Unified Classification

Extend common classification policies across Microsoft 365, other SaaS applications, cloud platforms, storage, databases, and AI.

Microsoft 365 Data Protection

Strengthen Security and Compliance Across Microsoft 365.

Learn how to reduce collaboration risk and improve sensitive-data protection across OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, and Microsoft Copilot-connected environments.

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Microsoft 365 Discovery and Classification Frequently Asked Questions.

Which Microsoft 365 services does BigID support?

BigID supports data discovery and classification across SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams files and conversations, Exchange Online mailboxes, attachments, and embedded documents.

Does BigID inspect file content or only metadata?

BigID performs content-based inspection of files, email bodies, messages, attachments, and other collaboration artifacts. It analyzes actual data values rather than relying only on file names or metadata.

Can BigID identify externally shared sensitive files?

Yes. BigID provides visibility into external sharing, guest and third-party access, publicly accessible files, group permissions, permission inheritance, and broadly exposed sensitive content.

Does BigID require endpoint agents for Microsoft 365?

No. BigID connects securely through Microsoft 365 APIs and does not require endpoint agents, ETL pipelines, or changes to how employees collaborate.

Does BigID integrate with Microsoft Purview and information protection labels?

BigID can align discovery and classification with Microsoft Information Protection labels and Purview-based classification strategies, helping organizations apply consistent governance across Microsoft and non-Microsoft data.

How are Microsoft 365 discovery results used?

Organizations use BigID results to build sensitive-data inventories, identify collaboration exposure, validate policy alignment, support privacy and compliance, improve retention decisions, and prioritize remediation.

Microsoft 365 Data Intelligence

Get Clear Visibility Across Microsoft 365.

Discover sensitive data across SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Exchange, files, messages, and attachments. Understand access exposure, apply consistent classification, and move from visibility to governed action.

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