Data drives your business, and AI is shaping its future. But without visibility or control, how can you guarantee these vital assets are secure?
Discover, understand, and safeguard what matters most with intelligent AI data discovery by BigID.
Wherever your information lives, protect it and power your growth with a single platform built for security, compliance, and smarter decision-making.
The Challenge: You Can’t Protect What You Can’t See
Don’t know where all your data is, or how much of it is sensitive or personal? You’re not alone. But you may be vulnerable.
The surge in large language models (LLMs), Gen-AI, and automation has created huge volumes of AI-related data. Like an iceberg, most of it is unstructured or hidden, making it seem hard to control.
That’s where BigID helps. It’s the only platform that connects the dots across data and AI.
Learn how BigID tames the AI data beast in this blog post.
The Solution: Intelligent AI Data Discovery With BigID
BigID uses intelligent AI to find, classify, and protect other AI-related data. Locate hard-to-find information to reduce risk and enforce policy and security control.
Here’s how its intelligent AI data discovery can support your business:
- Automatically discover all your structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data and AI. This includes dark data, shadow data, and unknown assets across your enterprise.
- Locate information whether it’s located across on-prem, cloud, SaaS, or even hybrid environments.
- Classify and label your data based on risk, sensitivity, and type, with advanced machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and pattern recognition that can identify the specifics of context and potential compliance risks.
- Stay compliant, even with evolving AI and privacy regulations.
- Mitigate risks, delete any unsafe data, and minimize or at least label sensitive information. This helps to enforce policy across your data environment.
How It Works: AI-Driven Information Discovery
It’s not enough for Chief Data Officers to rely on manual methods and siloed tools to patch together their data governance anymore. Traditional methods such as pattern matching, regular expressions, or data dictionaries are simply too time and resource-intensive.
To keep up with today’s rapid pace of data creation and consumption, you need a single solution, or control center, where you can easily view and monitor your data and AI assets.
BigID’s AI-powered data discovery tool transforms the experience of data management and governance in 3 simple steps:
Step One: Scan
With information spread across disparate systems, from the cloud to SaaS to on-prem to data lakes and AI pipelines, the task of finding and documenting all your data may seem overwhelming.
BigID connects your entire data landscape, using both direct and side scanning techniques to uncover structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data, as well as dark or forgotten data, at scale.
To learn more about its flexible scanning methods, read our Ultimate Guide to Data Scanning.
Step Two: Analyze and Classify
Once connected, BigID uses advanced AI engines to fully understand the content, structure, metadata, and access patterns of your data.
- Deep learning and NLP: Intelligent classification using a combination of pattern matching, machine learning, NLP, named-entity recognition, and patented analytics
- Fuzzy classification: Similar, duplicate, or redundant item detection to improve accuracy and reduce false positives
- Graph-powered insights: AI-powered relationship identification between data points to discover hidden associations, detect dark data, and contextualize sensitive information
- AI Model Discovery: Automatically discover and catalog both managed AI models (including Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, and OpenAI) and unmanaged ones to inventory all your AI assets.
- Pre-built and custom classifiers: Hundreds of out-of-the-box classifiers to find specific types of data (for example, PII, financial data, credentials, etc) with custom creation available for specialized or industry-specific data types – no coding required
Step Three: Act
BigID doesn’t stop at intelligent AI data discovery and classification. It also helps you to action these insights with automated governance and remediation.
With automated workflows, you can move data to a more appropriate or secure location, delete redundant or non-compliant data, apply protective measures like encryption to sensitive information, adjust permissions and access controls, and set triggers for risky data behavior to catch problems before they escalate.
Why Top Enterprises Choose BigID
We’re leaders in intelligent AI data discovery, trusted by businesses from global banks to the US Army. But we do more than just find information — our AI-driven platform is built for the complexity of today’s data and compliance landscape.
In fact, we use patented machine learning and NLP technology for finding both direct and indirect personal information across cloud-scale data, allowing you to easily catch non-compliant sensitive data before it becomes a problem.
Built for scale and trusted by Fortune 500 companies, BigID is ready for what’s next in the world of AI — giving you the visibility and control you need to implement this technology effectively.
Book a demo to see our data discovery in action.
FAQs: Learn More About Intelligent AI Data Discovery
What is Traditional Data Discovery?
Data discovery in general is the process of identifying, cataloging, and understanding data across your entire organization, no matter where or how it’s stored.
It aims to improve visibility into your structured, unstructured, and semi-structured information so you can manage it effectively in line with compliance, and use it to make smart decisions.
Traditionally, data discovery focused on information like customer records or financial details found in databases or SaaS platforms, for example.
What is Intelligent AI Data Discovery?
This takes data discovery a step further, using AI like ML and NLP to not only find data but understand its context, data lineage, and risk level too.
What’s more, it doesn’t just identify traditional forms of data. It can also locate and understand AI assets within your data stores, which often require more stringent governance to protect privacy.
Intelligent AI data discovery helps organizations find complex and often hidden data, classify it by type and sensitivity, and take the right actions to protect it, such as encrypting it, restricting access, or flagging it for compliance checks.
You could say it’s the foundation for responsible AI governance and safer innovation.
Discover the differences between the two major forms of AI, agentic and generative, in our guide.
What Are the Benefits of AI Data Discovery for Businesses?
Knowing where your data is and what kinds of sensitive information you hold gives your business the control and confidence needed to innovate safely, particularly as you adopt AI tools and LLMs. These tools naturally create and consume vast amounts of new data, which can be hard to manually keep track of and secure without proper data discovery tools.
By automatically identifying and classifying AI-related data, you can:
- Réduire les risques : Pinpoint and protect sensitive and non-compliant data to avoid breaches, misuse, regulatory fines, or reputational damage
- Enable safe AI adoption: Ensure that the data used to train or run AI models is accurate, governed, and trustworthy
- Improve compliance: Meet data privacy and AI-specific regulations, like the GDPR, CCPA, or the EU AI Act, with automated discovery and reporting
- Make smarter decisions: Understand the full picture of your data for more effective and ethical AI strategies
- Cut costs and clutter: Identify redundant or risky data that can be archived or deleted
AI will help your business to scale, but only if you don’t lose sight of governance and accountability. Intelligent AI data discovery supports safe and sustainable growth.
How Can I Get Started With Intelligent AI Data Discovery?
Getting started with BigID’s intelligent AI data discovery is easier than you may think, and could be one of the most impactful steps your business takes towards safer, smarter innovation.
Whether you’re just beginning your AI journey or are simply looking to gain more control over complex, sprawling data environments, our experts are here to help. We’ll work with you to uncover hidden data risks, improve your compliance, and build a strong foundation for AI governance.
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