BigID vs Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention comparison

The compared BigID and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. BigID is ranked #7 in DG , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 7.2% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #1 in DLP , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 19.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BigID users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

BigID

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Governance (7th), Data Privacy Management Software (2nd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (7th)

Microsoft Purview Data Loss...

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (13th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Security solutions, they serve different purposes. BigID is designed for Data Governance and holds a mindshare of 7.2%, up 5.7% compared to last year.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, on the other hand, focuses on Data Loss Prevention (DLP), holds 19.4% mindshare, down 20.9% since last year.

Data Governance

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Q&A Highlights

Chenna Vemula

Sr. DevSecOps Engineer at Pearson Education

Aug 06, 2024

How to minimize false positives for PII and PCI around different data systems across the globe?

Personal information always should be under high protection from manipulations which is why it is the responsibility of those collecting the data to keep the integrity of these data and check and update them periodically. Then, once sure about the data, focus on the systems that use the data and apply all necessary security controls in using the data and keeping them safe such as information leakage.

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Chenna Vemula

Sr. DevSecOps Engineer at Pearson Education

Jul 31, 2024

Offers a unified view, supports many data source types, and provides good data discovery

The solution needs to improve: Scan Reliability. Enhancing the functionality and speed of the remote scanner setup is imperative. User Interface Navigation: The dashboards and findings landscape require significant improvement. API Flexibility: It is crucial to make enhancements in data export operations. Navigation and Usability: Some users find catalog navigation challenging due to the lack of a search-by-column feature, making locating specific data difficult. Export Functionality: The export feature tends to be buggy, particularly when dealing with large data sets, leading to delays and necessitating manual intervention FalsePositives: The process has to find a new way to validate the regex match pattern by validating with some external source

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reviewer2020164

Cyber Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 11, 2022

Gives us great visibility into data governance, and integration with Microsoft solutions is easier

There is no AIP for Linux systems. That's a setback. Another thing it's lacking is libraries to work with Python. It has libraries for C# and C++, for example, but not for Python and, these days, Python is very useful. Power Automate can be improved as well. You can do plenty of things with it but it still doesn't do everything that you have in a full development language. It doesn't have that flexibility. I would also like more integrations in Power Automate. Because so many things are a premium with Power Automate, you cannot do everything. There are a bunch of integrations that you have to pay more to use. That's not very good.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I like BigID's in-depth discovery and scanning capabilities, especially for unstructured data. This feature is a standout compared to competitors. The tool's data classification capabilities are impressive. It offers custom classifiers and a blend of regular exploration and artificial intelligence, making it a next-generation solution. This enhances data security, and its security posture management is straightforward and user-friendly."

"BigID offers different scan types for data discovery. The most powerful one is the full scan, which scans both data and metadata. However, the metadata scan is faster in comparison."

"One of the most valuable things in a data-focused world is a tool, a technology that's data-centric, not trying to master data management or whatever else. It's a source of truth for what data an organization holds, giving it the ability to catalog, categorize, and understand its data."

"The tool's most valuable feature is correlation. Using BigID's data classification capabilities has strengthened our data security. It lets me classify and connect data, which helps me manage data at various classification levels."

"The data classification offered by the tool can help companies improve their security strategy"

"BigID integrates well with our other products."

"It provides a unified view across different databases and supports a wide range of data source types, including cloud and on-premises systems."

"BigID's scanning feature is its most valuable component."

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"One of the valuable features of Purview is the ability to create a legal hold on a user's account within the compliance portal. That's pretty useful when it comes to any litigation or if you want to redeem the content within a mailbox, OneDrive, or a generic public SharePoint site."

"The tool's most valuable feature is in the area of OCR."

"We can use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to manage devices and site policies."

"The solution's IDM (Indexed Document Matching), EDM (Exact Data Matching), and DCM (Described Content Matching) features have been most effective in identifying and mitigating potential data leaks."

"When you are going to use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, most of the setup is already done by default as per your needs."

"There's a good amount of documentation in case you run into any problems."

"It has helped our clients to reduce the time to action on insider threats because it can be integrated."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the mature O365 DLP, which works with SharePoint and Teams."

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Cons

"BigID is making some forays into the GRC space, and that's a natural progression. I'd like to see that improve so that data governance is better, data risk is identified, and the ability to control and mitigate it."

"The challenge we encountered was with data connection across multiple databases. We struggled with configuring the data connection successfully. However, with the assistance of dynamic teams, we resolved this issue."

"The tool currently lacks security features."

"More classifications about different states are needed"

"In terms of what could be improved, when you're looking in a BigID file, you cannot really get the whole file. You have to export it to download it to another platform that allows you to completely view it, or run a program. That was one of the things that was really a disappointing point for me. Not to be able to view everything. There's a lot more data, but you can't get it all at once."

"BigID is expensive. I prefer McAfee."

"Some users find catalog navigation challenging due to the lack of a search-by-column feature, which makes it difficult to locate specific data quickly."

"One concern I have with BigID is regarding certain scans, like the multi-scan. The issue is that we can stop and retrieve these scans, but once they start, they go through an enumeration process."

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"It could cover more solutions and technologies."

"The platform can be challenging to navigate and has the potential for improvement."

"The solution should provide better integration with other systems."

"We faced a performance issue with the tool when we didn't get alerts for file uploads."

"The tool's user interface and document fingerprinting have been very poor for my customers because uploading files manually can be problematic."

"There is a need for improvements, particularly in ensuring that file-based recognition is more reliable and comprehensive."

"There is a lot of ambiguity when you are setting up labels, such as sensitive information labels. It is a little daunting at first if you don't have prior knowledge, and there is a little bit of a learning curve for setting up the labels. Some of the setup wizards could be more helpful from an AI perspective. They can streamline the setup through more AI technologies so that you don't have to jump through so many hoops and different menus and dropdowns. It would be useful to have a setup wizard that is more hands-off and engaging for setting up the information type labels. If you tell them this is what we're trying to protect, it should basically start to lead you down that path of best practices. Such a feature would be great."

"The support is poor."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive, but so are all competitor tools"

"The pricing depends. If you have thousands of data sources to connect and manage, and you struggled with an MDM package in the past, you'll find BigID valuable and even cheap. But if you're a small business, it's probably not the right tool for you."

"The solution is expensive."

"The solution is not licensed per user but rather based on capacity. For instance, organizations with large amounts of data, such as 50 GB or more, are the ones that typically qualify for BigID."

"I think that BigID's pricing is very reasonable."

"The product has the best price-to-performance ratio."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"We are using the E3 license for Microsoft 365 with the E5 compliance license add-on."

"If one is very cheap and ten is very expensive, I rate the price as one out of ten."

"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."

"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is part of a bundle and is not sold as a standalone product."

"It is a part of our Microsoft licensing. We pay for a yearly renewal. Its price is reasonable for the size of the organization we are. It is fairly competitive, and you get what you pay for. We have an E5 license, and a part of understanding the E5 license is to see what all you get with it. If you really look at it from that standpoint, you get a lot of value. You have Defender and all its security features in there as well. Their licensing is fairly flexible. They have different programs. We've seen ones where you could pay for up to three to five years in advance. There is also a monthly pay-as-you-go type of deal, but we're doing a yearly renewal and fixing the budget."

"You get the solution in a bundle if you get the E5 suite."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

12%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BigID?

I like BigID's in-depth discovery and scanning capabilities, especially for unstructured data. This feature is a standout compared to competitors. The tool's data classification capabilities are i...

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What needs improvement with BigID?

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What is your primary use case for BigID?

BigId is a Data Security Posture Management and Data Loss Prevention solution that scans data systems across the enterprise for passwords, secrets, and PII information. It offers significant benefi...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

The most valuable features are identifying sensitive data and issuing alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

You get the solution in a bundle if you get the E5 suite. Some additional charges are there for your endpoint DLP because that comes with your endpoint management.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

My main concern was more about the endpoint side because you should have many different functionalities on the endpoint. Endpoints are not just about the USB or the network share. They deal with ma...

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BigID

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Overview

BigID is a leader in data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: enabling organizations to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their data in a single platform for data visibility and control. Customers use BigID to reduce their data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data across their entire data landscape: including multicloud, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-prem data sources.

Drives visibility and control for all sensitive & critical datah
helps organizations understand and minimize data risk across the cloud & on-prem
AI automation
End-to-end data lifecycle management
DSPM
Data Security
Privacy Automation
Data inventory
Compliance

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.

Sample Customers

Home Depot, Grant Thornton LLP, Cimpress, Fidelity Investments

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