THE BIGID DIFFERENCE

See Why Enterprises are Switching from Varonis to BigID

Explore BigID’s Unified Platform vs Varonis’ Fragmented Product Silos

Find, manage, and protect ALL of your data - accurately, and at scale. 

Talk to one of our data specialists 👇 and see how BigID can help organizations like yours find sensitive data, reduce risk, and take action to minimize your attack surface, achieve compliance, and improve data protection.
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Why BigID?

While both BigID and Varonis offer data security capabilities, the difference is clear:

✅ Unified Platform – BigID consolidates DSPM, DAG, DAM, DLP, data retention, and more into a single, integrated product. Varonis fragments functionality across multiple tools with inconsistent experiences and limited DSPM coverage.
✅ Advanced Security: BigID offers additional security that Varonis lacks. Varonis’s core competency is scanning files in MS file systems with DAG and DAM. Varonis cannot delegate remediation and has no retention or deletion capabilities. Plus, unlike BigID Varnish does not record exact location of sensitive content in files making redaction/tokenization of data inside files complicated to impossible.
✅ Broader Coverage – BigID supports cloud, on-prem, structured, unstructured, SaaS, dev tools, vector DBs, and more. Varonis is mostly limited to Microsoft file shares and a handful of cloud sources.
✅ Deeper Classification – BigID offers AI based classification & assistance. Varonis is RegEx only.
✅ AI & Privacy Centric– BigID delivers AI model discovery, AI-aware risk assessments, redaction, custom classification, and full privacy automation. Varonis lacks AI visibility and only detects PII.
✅ Actionability – From automated remediation to data deletion and masking, BigID enables real action—not just alerts. Varonis stops at access visibility.
✅ Integrations – BigID has broad integrations With ServiceNow, Catalogs, Wiz. Varonis does not.

Recognized as the #1 data security, privacy, and AI data management solution

BigID Ranked #1 in Intuit’s Data Classification Challenge

In a highly competitive data classification challenge, Intuit compared vendors’ ability to rapidly and accurately identify sensitive data within massive datasets, ultimately recognizing BigID for its unmatched performance in accuracy, speed, and precision.

 

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2025 CUSTOMER STORY

See How The University of Maryland Saved $5 Million in Risk Exposure

The University of Maryland faced a familiar yet daunting challenge: sprawling cloud data, scattered sensitive records, and increasing exposure to risk. Their solution? BigID.

 

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Data-Centric, Risk-Aware Security for the Multi-Cloud & Beyond

  • Cloud, hybrid, & on-prem
  • Deep & accurate classification
  • Automatically take action
  • Enterprise-scale security

Shine a Light on Dark Data

Automatically find and inventory your most sensitive, critical, and high-priority data - wherever it lives.

Get unmatched data discovery and classification to find and protect the data that matters most to you: whether it's critical, regulated, personal, secrets, passwords, IP, financial, or more across structured and unstructured data.  Get more accurate results every time with ML-driven data classification - across your entire data landscape (from on-prem to cloud to everywhere in between).

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Advanced Sensitivity Classification

Achieve unparalleled accuracy and scalability in data classification.

Go beyond traditional pattern-matching and regular expression (RegEx) with advanced, trainable ML and NLP-based classification. Create custom classifiers that can be tailored specifically to your unique data environment. Test and fine-tune them before deployment to enhance accuracy and mitigate the number of false positives. Label and tag all of your data using a single unified classification ruleset. 

Jumpstart DSPM

Data Security Posture Management for the Multicloud and beyond

Accelerate DSPM: manage risk across the multicloud with a data-centric approach. Automatically map, monitor, and remediate data – with the first platform based on ML-driven in depth data discovery and automation.

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Streamline Data Protection Workflows

Remediate high-risk, sensitive, & critical data, everywhere.

Make it easier than ever for the right people to take the right actions, on the right data. Manage data protection all in one place - a single pane of glass to annotate, delete, quarantine, archive, mask, encrypt, and anonymize sensitive data.

Assign findings and tasks to the right data owners, take action on the right data, and maintain an audit trail of all data protection activity. Enforce and prioritize your remediation actions by policy and report on actions taken on sensitive data.

Enable Zero Trust for Data

Identify & remediate high-risk data access issues.

Easily find over-permissioned and over-exposed data across your entire data landscape: mitigate unauthorized use, reduce the risk of data leaks or breaches., and get to a least privileged permissions model for zero trust.

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FAQs About Migration

How will onboarding work?

BigID is agentless, resource-friendly, and super easy to set up. Day one, we seamlessly connect to and scan virtually any data source you can think of.

What happens to my existing custom classifiers?

No sweat. We can help migrate existing custom or specific classification requirements over. We've got 100s of OOB classifiers to match your needs, along with custom classifiers that are easily tunable and trainable. 

Will there be training and assistance?

We understand that new solutions can be daunting but fear not. BigID is simple and intuitive. Our team of data security experts has your back. Plus, we created BigID University to help you accelerate time-to-value. Let's get you going!

2025 SOLUTIONS GUIDE

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for 2025 & Beyond

Stay on the cutting edge of DSPM with the latest innovations and best practices covered in our ultimate guide. We'll dive into the critical capabilities of DSPM and how BigID's pioneering approach enables organizations to keep their data safeguarded, secure, and compliant for 2025 and beyond. 

 

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