BigID

Fortanix for BigID

The partnership aligns Fortanix's rich data security features to define and enforce how data is protected, with BigID's innovative capabilities to discover and classify what datasets should be protected—essentially enabling businesses to tap into their data’s full-potential.

Overview

Organizations struggle with escalating data sprawl as sensitive information—including PII, PHI, payment data, and intellectual property—scatters across on-premises systems, cloud platforms, and SaaS applications. Growing privacy regulations like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and PCI DSS demand that enterprises know exactly where sensitive data resides and ensure its proper protection.

Most organizations rely on fragmented, perimeter-focused security tools that operate in silos and react to breaches rather than prevent them. This reactive approach creates significant compliance and security risks in today's dynamic digital landscape.

The Fortanix-BigID integration transforms this paradigm. When BigID discovers sensitive data, it automatically invokes the Fortanix Data Security Gateway, which applies policy-based encryption or tokenization through Fortanix DSM, delivering seamless, automated data protection with full auditability.

Fortanix Solution

The integration unites BigID’s data discovery and classification with Fortanix’s data-centric protection, creating a proactive, automated security fabric.

Discovery: BigID identifies and tags sensitive or regulated data across all environments.
Protection: Fortanix Data Security Gateway automatically retrieves credentials, connects to the data source, and applies format-preserving tokenization or encryption through Fortanix DSM APIs.
Governance: Once data is protected, BigID is updated to maintain synchronized visibility and avoid redundant scans.
Deployment: Works across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures for consistent, policy-driven protection everywhere data resides.
Result: A unified, intelligent, and automated data-protection ecosystem that minimizes risk, eliminates manual steps, and ensures ongoing compliance.