Fortanix, a global leader in data security for an AI-driven world, has announced a strategic integration with BigID, the leading platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and AI governance. The collaboration brings together Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) and BigID’s advanced data discovery and classification capabilities to automatically trigger protection actions whenever sensitive data is identified. This automation eliminates the need for manual intervention while ensuring full auditability of all protection activities.
Enterprises today are under immense pressure to safeguard sensitive data that is increasingly dispersed across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. With strict regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and PCI DSS governing personal, financial, healthcare, and proprietary information, businesses must not only know where their critical data resides but also apply consistent protection. However, many organizations still rely on fragmented data security ecosystems. While Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) tools can identify sensitive data across diverse environments, the gap between discovery and actual protection leaves enterprises vulnerable to compliance risks, operational inefficiencies, and security breaches.
The integration between BigID and Fortanix addresses this challenge by unifying data discovery, classification, and protection in a single automated workflow. Once deployed, the solution securely connects both platforms, leverages BigID’s PII classifiers to create security objects in Fortanix DSM, and applies encryption via tokenization through Fortanix APIs in line with pre-defined policies. This enables organizations to automate protection with greater accuracy, strengthen compliance, and optimize operations while continuing to derive value from their data.
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“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.”
Key benefits of the joint solution include:
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Automated Discovery-to-Protection: Seamlessly bridge the gap between data discovery and protection while reducing security blind spots.
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Faster Compliance: Apply consistent tokenization policies to sensitive data to meet regulatory obligations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and minimize breach risks through automated remediation.
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Enhanced Data Utility: Protect sensitive data elements while preserving usability for analytics, development, and AI initiatives with Fortanix’s format-preserving tokenization.