Apps/Role of BigID Apps

The BigID Platform

BigID is implemented as a platform. This means the BigID core provides four services: Correlation, Classification, Clustering, and Catalog. All other capabilities are implemented as apps using the data from these four services.

Correlation

Correlation is the process of determining who a piece of information belongs to. For example, in our DSAR application we use correlation to report all of the information belonging to an individual. In our breach response application, we can use a sample of breached data to discover the individuals that need to be notified.

Classification

Classification is the process of determining the type of a piece of information. For example, classification can tell us that the string "+1 (917) 555-5555" is a phone number. It also can tell us that an image looks like a receipt. BigID uses regular expressions, NLP, and NER classifiers to determine the types of data and files. You can read more about our classification methodology here: https://bigid.com/blog/what-is-data-classification/

Clustering

Clustering is the process of combining like files together to generalize about the group.

Data Subject Access Request - allows employees and individuals to both request and receive a copy of all the personal data that a company or organization has collected about them