Fortanix Inc. and BigID 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.
