Data protection firm BigID Inc. today announced new access governance capabilities that allow organizations to improve security posture, mitigate insider risk, achieve zero-trust security and accelerate artificial intelligence compliance.

With a focus on remediating overexposed sensitive data and over-privileged users, the new access governance controls allow customers to monitor, manage and revoke access to sensitive data across the cloud and on-prem environments. Support includes Microsoft 365, on-premise SMB file shares and Amazon Web Services Inc. S3, among other services.

Using the new solution, organizations can automatically identify, investigate and remediate access rights violations across sensitive structured and unstructured data. The service proactively reduces the risk of overexposed data and overprivileged users, monitors potential exposure for insider risk and manages external user and group access to sensitive data.

Key benefits include enhanced access risk visibility, with visibility into who has access to sensitive, personal, regulated and critical information. Attack surface risk is reduced through the proactive identification, prioritization and remediation of overexposed sensitive data to shrink the potential attack surface.

Access rights management is covered, with organizations able to streamline and centralize access management natively within BigId for faster and more efficient security operations. The solution also offers zero-trust security by identifying access violations based on the context of the data. Insider risk is mitigated through monitoring, detection and response to unauthorized internal exposure to sensitive information.

“As data landscapes become more intricate, securing access to sensitive information becomes critical,” said BigID Chief Information Security Officer Tyler Young. “BigID’s expanded access intelligence and remediation capabilities represent a significant step towards addressing the challenges organizations face in managing high-risk data access issues effectively, especially across large, on-prem and hybrid IT environments.”

BigID is a venture capital-backed startup that has raised $248 million, according to Traxcn, including a round of $70 million on a $1 billion valuation in December 2020. Investors include Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global Management LLC, Glynn Capital Management LLC, Bessemer Venture Partners LLC, Scale Venture Partners and Boldstart Ventures Management LLC.

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