Key Capabilities / Features

Key Benefits of BigID's Data Activity Monitoring:

--Contextual Investigation and Remediation: Get a unified view of data activity across structured and unstructured sources, combining metadata, granular access permissions, and user activity insights. This empowers security teams to understand data usage comprehensively, enabling accurate investigations, proactive risk mitigation, and efficient remediation without disrupting business operations.
--Holistic Context for Data Security: Integrating metadata, access permissions, and activity data, get 360-degree visibility into who accesses data, under what conditions, and how. This holistic approach enables security teams to identify and resolve risks, such as stale permissions or insider threats, with precision and confidence.
--Safe Access Revocation: Safely revoke unnecessary or excessive access to sensitive data while minimizing business disruption. By identifying active users and permissions tied to real data activity, actively reduce the attack surface while maintaining operational continuity.
--Stale & ROT Data Identification and Retention Policies: Track actual data usage, going beyond last-modified timestamps to differentiate between actively used and stale data. Implement precise retention policies, retain valuable data, and flag inactive data for deletion or archival based on real activity patterns.
--Enhanced Permission Audits and Access Control: Proactively identify over-permissioned users and track inactive permissions to reduce unnecessary risks. Data-driven audits provide insights into how permissions are used, helping to tighten access controls and minimize the risk of data breaches.
--Ownership Identification for Unstructured Data: Simplify the process of identifying potential owners of unstructured data. By understanding who interacts with specific files, security teams can delegate investigation and remediation tasks to the appropriate teams, ensuring accountability and streamlined workflows.

How we are different

--First-of-its-Kind DSPM Innovation: BigID is the first and only Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution to deliver near real-time monitoring of user activity across both structured and unstructured data. By bridging this critical gap, BigID enables organizations to proactively identify risks, accelerate threat response, and enhance compliance efforts—offering a level of visibility unmatched by traditional tools.
--Proactive Risk Mitigation: BigID’s Data Activity Monitoring empowers security teams to strengthen their security posture by detecting insider threats, unauthorized access, and data misuse in real time. These actionable insights enable organizations to prevent breaches before they occur, reducing operational disruptions and protecting sensitive data.
--Beyond Traditional DDR Tools: Unlike standard Data Detection & Response (DDR) solutions that focus only on sensitive data discovery and policy enforcement, BigID provides a holistic view of data access activity. By tracking who accesses data, when, how, and why, BigID delivers the contextual intelligence necessary for precise investigations, informed decision-making, and proactive breach prevention which sets a new benchmark for data security.