Fortanix and BigID Integration Automates Discovery, Classification and Protection of Sensitive Data

Tools combine to bridge the gap between finding vulnerable data and securing it, uniting tools into a seamless, automated security ecosystem

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fortanix® Inc., a global leader in data security for an AI world, and BigID, the leading platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and AI governance, today announced an integration between Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) and BigID’s data discovery and classification capabilities to automatically trigger protection actions whenever sensitive data is classified. This streamlined workflow eliminates manual intervention while maintaining complete audit trails of all data protection activities.

Large enterprises face mounting challenges in managing sensitive data scattered across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. With personal, financial, health, and proprietary information subject to stringent regulations like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and PCI DSS, businesses must know where this data resides and protect it accordingly. At the same time, there is a heavy reliance on fragmented data protection ecosystems. While Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) tools effectively identify sensitive data across complex environments, a critical gap exists between discovering the data and protecting it. This fragmentation results in security risk exposure, operational inefficiency, and potential compliance failures.

The BigID and Fortanix integration automates the protection of sensitive data by combining BigID’s discovery and classification with Fortanix’s advanced encryption services. Once configured, it securely connects the two platforms, uses BigID’s PII classifiers to create corresponding security objects in Fortanix DSM, and applies encryption via tokenization through Fortanix APIs in line with pre-set policies. Organizations can now trigger data protection with greater precision to enhance their security posture, support faster compliance, and operate efficiently, while unlocking value from their data.

“Enterprises rely on fragmented and siloed security tools that provide separate solutions for discovery, classification, encryption, and access control that don't communicate effectively,” said Anuj Jaiswal, CPO of Fortanix. “The integration of BigID’s data discovery and classification capabilities with Fortanix’s market-leading encryption capabilities eliminates manual handoffs between data discovery and protection processes, delivering a comprehensive solution for data visibility and protection.”

“Organizations need both data discovery, classification and protection and not separate tools that don’t connect," said Nimrod Vax, Co-founder and CPO at BigID. "With Fortanix, we’re adding advanced encryption and format-preserving tokenization into that same ecosystem. The result is stronger protection, faster compliance, and safer data for AI and analytics.”

Joint customers can take advantage of:

• Discovery to Protection Automation: Eliminate manual steps and security gaps between data discovery and data protection.
• Accelerated Compliance: Quickly apply consistent tokenization policies to sensitive data to meet regulatory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and minimize data breach risks through automated remediation.
• Enhanced Data Utility: Protect sensitive data elements while preserving data format and utility for analytics or development using Fortanix's format-preserving tokenization.

To take advantage of this powerful integration, visit our website and review the solutions brief.

About Fortanix

Fortanix is the global leader in data-first cybersecurity and a pioneer of Confidential Computing. Its unified platform secures sensitive data across on-premises and multi-cloud environments—at rest, in transit, and in use—through advanced encryption and key management. Fortanix's encryption is resistant to all known cryptanalytic techniques, including the latest quantum computing algorithms, allowing for top-level compliance and operational simplicity while reducing risk and cost.

Trusted by leading enterprises and government agencies, Fortanix enables users to run applications and AI workloads entirely within secure hardware enclaves—isolated, tamper-proof environments. This innovative approach, an industry standard known as Confidential Computing, has been supported by leading technology companies, including Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. For more information, visit www.fortanix.com.

About BigID

BigID helps organizations connect the dots in data & AI: for security, privacy, compliance, and AI data management. BigID enables customers to find, understand, manage, protect, and take action on high-risk & high-value data, wherever it lives.

Customers use BigID to reduce their AI & data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data throughout their entire data landscape: from the cloud, on-prem, and everywhere in between.

BigID has been recognized for innovation as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer; named to the Forbes Cloud 100; the Inc 5000 for 4 consecutive years; the Deloitte 500 for 4 consecutive years; Market Leader in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM); Leader in Privacy Management in the Forrester Wave; and an RSA Innovation Sandbox winner.