Govern data, models, and AI workflows entirely inside your own boundary, on-prem, air-gapped, or private cloud, without losing the capability you'd get in the cloud.
Discover, classify, and govern AI-ready data locally. Keep configuration, telemetry, and reporting inside your environment. Run AI governance on your own approved models. No backhaul, no vendor-hosted control plane, no compromise.
Local control over data, models,
and the AI lifecycle.
Sovereign AI is the practice of keeping data, processing, and AI governance inside a defined boundary, whether that boundary is a country, a regulated business unit, or a disconnected network. BigID connects data discovery, classification, and AI governance to whatever deployment model that boundary requires.
01
Discover
Find and classify sensitive data feeding AI training, retrieval, and inference, wherever it sits: on-prem, private cloud, or air-gapped.
02
Contain
Keep configuration, scan orchestration, findings, dashboards, APIs, and AI prompts inside the customer-controlled environment.
03
Govern
Apply access controls, RBAC, and policy to AI-ready data and AI interactions without depending on a vendor-hosted control plane.
04
Operate
Automate reporting, remediation, and AI workflows locally, using customer-approved models where required.
Why BigID: Built Once. Deployed Anywhere.
Most "Self-Hosted AI" Is
A Second Product Wearing a First Product's Name
Many vendors offer a cloud-first platform and a separate, thinner on-prem version bolted on afterward. BigID was built as one unified Data Security Platform that runs the same way across deployment models.
Forked Products
On-prem is a separate, lagging version of the real platform.
BigID runs one architecture across cloud, on-prem, private cloud, and air-gapped deployments with parity in capability.
Vendor-Hosted Control Plane
Reporting, administration, and telemetry live in the vendor's cloud even when scanning runs locally.
Configuration, orchestration, findings, dashboards, and audit logs can remain entirely inside the customer boundary.
Locked AI Models
AI capabilities only work with the vendor's managed large language model.
Customers can power BigID AI capabilities using their own approved models, including governed MCP connections.
Manual-Only Operations
Self-managed deployments mean no APIs, limited automation, and disconnected workflows.
Full API and MCP support enable administration, reporting, automation, and AI agent workflows—even inside disconnected environments.
Reduced Functionality
Feature gaps appear the moment organizations leave the vendor's cloud.
Discovery, classification, remediation, and AI governance remain equivalent across every deployment model.
Control Pillars
Deployment flexibility,
without giving up control.
BigID delivers full AI governance, data security, and automation inside the deployment model you choose. Keep administration, AI, and security operations inside your own boundary without sacrificing enterprise capabilities.
Local Control Plane
Keep configuration, scan orchestration, findings, dashboards, APIs, and audit logs inside your environment. No dependency on vendor-hosted infrastructure.
Built-In Product Security
Customer-controlled encryption and key management, credentials in your own vault, least-privilege scanning, and no unnecessary data copying or backhaul.
Bring Your Own Model
Power BigID's AI capabilities with your own approved language models. AI assistance stays inside your boundary, governed by your own RBAC and policy.
Automation Beyond Access
APIs, reporting automation, policy orchestration, and MCP-based workflows for AI agents and enterprise copilots—all available in self-managed and air-gapped deployments.
Outcomes
Built for the environments
you actually have.
BigID enables organizations to deploy AI securely across cloud, on-prem,
private cloud, hybrid, and air-gapped environments without sacrificing
governance, automation, or control.
✓
Deploy anywhere without losing capability
Discovery, classification, governance, and remediation work the same
in cloud, on-prem, private cloud, and air-gapped environments.
✓
Keep the control plane local
Configuration, telemetry, and reporting stay inside your boundary
whenever your architecture requires it.
✓
Govern AI on your own terms
Use customer-approved models, keep prompts and AI interactions inside
your environment, and apply governance to every AI touchpoint.
✓
Modernize without exposure
Automate through APIs and MCP-governed workflows, even in disconnected
or semi-disconnected environments.
FAQs
Sovereign AI,
Explained
Learn how BigID enables sovereign AI with a unified platform that supports self-managed, on-prem, private cloud, hybrid, and air-gapped deployments without sacrificing AI governance, automation, or security.
What is sovereign AI?
Sovereign AI means data, AI models, and the systems that govern them remain inside a defined boundary, such as a country, regulated business unit, or air-gapped network, instead of relying on a vendor-managed cloud control plane.
How is sovereign AI different from data sovereignty?
Data sovereignty governs where data is stored, processed, and transferred under jurisdictional requirements. Sovereign AI extends those principles to AI by ensuring models, prompts, training data, and governance capabilities remain within the approved environment.
Can BigID run fully air-gapped?
Yes. BigID's unified architecture supports self-managed, on-prem, private cloud, and fully disconnected deployments while maintaining the same discovery, classification, and AI governance capabilities available in cloud deployments.
Does self-managed BigID lose functionality compared to the cloud version?
No. BigID is built as one platform across every deployment model—not a separate or downgraded on-prem product. Reporting, remediation, APIs, automation, and AI governance remain consistent across environments.
Can customers use their own AI models with BigID?
Yes. BigID supports customer-approved language models for its AI capabilities, including governed MCP connections for enterprise AI applications, copilots, and AI agents.
Does BigID support hybrid deployment across multiple regions or business units?
Yes. BigID supports multi-tenant SaaS, single-tenant cloud, bring-your-own-cloud, on-prem, hybrid, and air-gapped deployments, allowing organizations to operate different deployment models across regions and business units while maintaining one consistent platform.
BigID Sovereign AI
Deploy Where Your Data Lives.
Govern AI on Your Terms.
BigID delivers full data security and AI governance across cloud, on-prem, private cloud, hybrid, and air-gapped environments—without asking you to choose between control and capability.
