I would recommend BigID to organizations, especially those heavily focused on data policy and customer-facing businesses, particularly in the B2C sector. It's crucial for such organizations as they handle and safeguard customer data. Consent is paramount, and a tool like BigID is essential for managing data subject access requests, discovering data, and ensuring compliance. The classifiers provided by BigID are particularly effective in this regard. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Compared to other products, more people are familiar with BigID. BigID was not as familiar to some people working with technologies because it was used by a closed group. The BigID support team is doing their best, and that's my personal experience. However, BigID wasn't that familiar to some people because it deals with specific areas like skill, regulation, automation, and governance. They need to do more to educate people about data. One issue we experienced was with the scripts being in YAML format, which some people didn't understand. It would also be helpful if they could address issues related to entity and space sensitivity in the cloud. We've encountered errors when exceeding storage limits, and we haven't found a solution yet. Overall, I would recommend BigID. If they are dealing with a large amount of data, if they need to scan all data sources, regardless of format, then BigID would be a suitable product for them. Overall, I would rate the product an eight out of ten.
In 2024, BigID will be one of the key solutions my company works with, considering the new data privacy law passed in Nigeria. BigID will be one of the strategic products my company will work with soon. I don't have an idea of what the maintenance of the solution looks like. When I asked BigID whether there would be downtime or some issues in the product each time during an update, I was told that the updates could be done outside working hours so that no one would experience any downtime. With BigID, users can decide if they want to run the update on the product or not. During critical time periods, like holidays or festive seasons, if there is a lot of mobile and internet banking traffic, the update can be pushed to a later date. Users can also decide on a date on which they want to update the product. BigID makes it compulsory for its customers to ensure that they have at least done the last two recent updates released. In short, if BigID releases a new update and you have not updated to the previous release of the product, then you need to choose the update that you want, making the update feature very flexible for users. With Big ID, you can decide to run the update you want or schedule the update for a later date, and it won't cost you any downtime. It might not be very important for a lot of banks to look into solutions like BigID. I don't think there has been enough investment to create awareness about the product in the Nigerian market. When my company engages with a new bank, we need to provide them with data sheets, first-hand reports, and other such reports to convince the banks that BigID is a useful solution. BigID needs to invest in branding and also create more awareness in the website market. In Nigeria, for those who plan to implement BigID in the company, I would say that BigID is a very good solution since the value and its offerings are unique. Most people feel that with the help of a standard solution, they can stay secure and don't think about the compliance aspect, which involves having you put in the data, manage it, and what you do with it. People also don't worry about the regulatory aspects, like GDPR and the PRA, as they feel that with a simple solution, they can protect the data or use it for data masking. It is important to give people an insight as to where their data resides. When you ask people where the data resides in their environment, some may say that it is stored either in the servers or on an on-premises model. When my company conducted a scanning with BigID, we found out that some people have stored their data with the help of flash drives and that it contains some sensitive data, while some have stored data in an Excel document on their computer, meaning BigID has the ability to provide visibility to its users over where data is stored. Without proper visibility, users won't be able to protect the data properly, which is why I feel that the value BigID provides to its users is unique. Those who are willing to onboard the solution need to consider the fact that the security of data is equally important since, in Nigeria, certain organizations have started getting fined, which comes up to around fifty percent of their gross revenue, if there is a data breach and if the organization had not taken care of every possible procedure in terms of securing your data. For organizations in Nigeria, it is actually very important to get BigID because, you know, it is really good to meet the compliance and regulatory requirements. I rate the product a nine out of ten.
My first question is: what are you trying to achieve? What business problem are you trying to solve? It's like asking if you should buy a calculator or Excel for basic math. A cheap calculator even does simple calculations! So, what's your goal? If your answer is data inventory and starting your data governance journey, then BigID is absolutely worth exploring. Overall, I would rate the solution a solid nine out of ten. Compared to the market, it's a ten. There are a few things I'd like it to do better, but they're working on it. So, nine now, with room to grow on.
Data Governance Operations Consultant/Program Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
2021-01-07T10:37:00Z
Jan 7, 2021
The biggest lesson I have learned about BigID is that it is reliable and it's readily available. When you do the scans, you can just see the data is there - it's nice. Even though you cannot see all you need, like I mentioned, you have to deploy somewhere or run a program, but it's there. On a scale of one to ten, I would give BigID an eight.
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.
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I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I would recommend BigID to organizations, especially those heavily focused on data policy and customer-facing businesses, particularly in the B2C sector. It's crucial for such organizations as they handle and safeguard customer data. Consent is paramount, and a tool like BigID is essential for managing data subject access requests, discovering data, and ensuring compliance. The classifiers provided by BigID are particularly effective in this regard. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Compared to other products, more people are familiar with BigID. BigID was not as familiar to some people working with technologies because it was used by a closed group. The BigID support team is doing their best, and that's my personal experience. However, BigID wasn't that familiar to some people because it deals with specific areas like skill, regulation, automation, and governance. They need to do more to educate people about data. One issue we experienced was with the scripts being in YAML format, which some people didn't understand. It would also be helpful if they could address issues related to entity and space sensitivity in the cloud. We've encountered errors when exceeding storage limits, and we haven't found a solution yet. Overall, I would recommend BigID. If they are dealing with a large amount of data, if they need to scan all data sources, regardless of format, then BigID would be a suitable product for them. Overall, I would rate the product an eight out of ten.
In 2024, BigID will be one of the key solutions my company works with, considering the new data privacy law passed in Nigeria. BigID will be one of the strategic products my company will work with soon. I don't have an idea of what the maintenance of the solution looks like. When I asked BigID whether there would be downtime or some issues in the product each time during an update, I was told that the updates could be done outside working hours so that no one would experience any downtime. With BigID, users can decide if they want to run the update on the product or not. During critical time periods, like holidays or festive seasons, if there is a lot of mobile and internet banking traffic, the update can be pushed to a later date. Users can also decide on a date on which they want to update the product. BigID makes it compulsory for its customers to ensure that they have at least done the last two recent updates released. In short, if BigID releases a new update and you have not updated to the previous release of the product, then you need to choose the update that you want, making the update feature very flexible for users. With Big ID, you can decide to run the update you want or schedule the update for a later date, and it won't cost you any downtime. It might not be very important for a lot of banks to look into solutions like BigID. I don't think there has been enough investment to create awareness about the product in the Nigerian market. When my company engages with a new bank, we need to provide them with data sheets, first-hand reports, and other such reports to convince the banks that BigID is a useful solution. BigID needs to invest in branding and also create more awareness in the website market. In Nigeria, for those who plan to implement BigID in the company, I would say that BigID is a very good solution since the value and its offerings are unique. Most people feel that with the help of a standard solution, they can stay secure and don't think about the compliance aspect, which involves having you put in the data, manage it, and what you do with it. People also don't worry about the regulatory aspects, like GDPR and the PRA, as they feel that with a simple solution, they can protect the data or use it for data masking. It is important to give people an insight as to where their data resides. When you ask people where the data resides in their environment, some may say that it is stored either in the servers or on an on-premises model. When my company conducted a scanning with BigID, we found out that some people have stored their data with the help of flash drives and that it contains some sensitive data, while some have stored data in an Excel document on their computer, meaning BigID has the ability to provide visibility to its users over where data is stored. Without proper visibility, users won't be able to protect the data properly, which is why I feel that the value BigID provides to its users is unique. Those who are willing to onboard the solution need to consider the fact that the security of data is equally important since, in Nigeria, certain organizations have started getting fined, which comes up to around fifty percent of their gross revenue, if there is a data breach and if the organization had not taken care of every possible procedure in terms of securing your data. For organizations in Nigeria, it is actually very important to get BigID because, you know, it is really good to meet the compliance and regulatory requirements. I rate the product a nine out of ten.
My first question is: what are you trying to achieve? What business problem are you trying to solve? It's like asking if you should buy a calculator or Excel for basic math. A cheap calculator even does simple calculations! So, what's your goal? If your answer is data inventory and starting your data governance journey, then BigID is absolutely worth exploring. Overall, I would rate the solution a solid nine out of ten. Compared to the market, it's a ten. There are a few things I'd like it to do better, but they're working on it. So, nine now, with room to grow on.
I rate BigID eight out of 10.
The biggest lesson I have learned about BigID is that it is reliable and it's readily available. When you do the scans, you can just see the data is there - it's nice. Even though you cannot see all you need, like I mentioned, you have to deploy somewhere or run a program, but it's there. On a scale of one to ten, I would give BigID an eight.