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BigID sells a platform that identifies and classifies sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises and AI systems and automates access, retention and privacy controls on it. Its buyers are security, privacy and governance teams at large organizations and government agencies. Founded in 2016, BigID says hundreds of global enterprises trust it and names the University of Maryland, Telenor and the U.S. Army as customers. It has raised $320 million, including a March 2024 Series E led by Riverwood Capital. Globes reported in May 2026 that BigID laid off about 150 of its 650 employees, a cut BigID described as a shift to an AI-first operating model. A customer that leaves would have to rebuild the classification policies, workflows and data catalog connections it configured in BigID.
| Description | Enterprise data security and compliance platform that discovers and classifies sensitive data and delivers DSPM, DLP, data access governance, privacy, and AI security and governance on one platform. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 | [f2] |
| HQ | New York, NY | [f3] |
| Funding | $320M total | [f2] |
| Latest funding | Series E led by Riverwood Capital (March 2024) | [f4] |
| Deployment | SaaS | [f5] |
| Compliance | CSA STAR Level 1, PCI DSS, SOC 2, SOC 3 | [f5] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| BigID Data Security Platform | Unified platform that discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and mainframe sources, then applies posture, access, DLP, and remediation controls. |
| BigID Security Suite | Data security posture management, DLP enrichment, access intelligence, and risk remediation built on the discovery and classification engine to reduce data exposure and over-privileged access. |
| BigID Privacy Suite | Privacy management for data subject rights, consent and cookie management, data mapping, RoPA, assessments, and retention across global privacy regulations. |
| BigID Data Access Governance | Identifies over-privileged access, overexposed data, insider risk, and access control violations by connecting data risk to identities, permissions, and usage context. |
| BigID AI Security & Governance | Discovers and inventories AI models, agents, datasets, vector databases, and shadow AI, secures the data pipeline for AI training, and governs employee AI access and AI risk posture. |
AI Defense Matrix
| Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain. | ||||||
| AI Coding and Orchestration Tools AI coding tools and agentic orchestration tools on user devices, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients. | ||||||
| AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD. | ||||||
| AI Traffic Paths to external and self-hosted AI services, MCP tool channels, agent-to-agent calls, model-registry downloads, and egress to unapproved AI services. AI gateways, LLM routers, and MCP gateways steer traffic along those paths. The steering decisions and their inputs belong here too: routing policies, MCP server registries, and agent naming and discovery services. | ||||||
| AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, an AI bill of materials (AIBOM), and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes. | ||||||
| Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning. | ||||||
| Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history. | ||||||
| AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools. |
BigID AI Security & Governance discovers and inventories AI models, datasets, and shadow AI, secures the data pipeline for AI training, and governs employee AI access and risk. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f6]
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware. | |||||
| Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices. | |||||
| Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths. | |||||
| Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks. | |||||
| Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data. |
The BigID Data Security Platform and Security Suite discover and classify sensitive data and manage its security posture across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises stores. These conventional security lines are mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f1]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 | BigID names its buyer as the security, privacy and governance teams that must find and control sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises and AI environments, and its product pages describe that problem in concrete terms. BankInfoSecurity reports IDC figures ranking privacy compliance software vendors by 2022 revenue, which shows an established market for the problem. The quantified pain in the cited record comes from BigID's own customer stories, such as the $5 million in risk exposure it reports for the University of Maryland, so independent sources do not quantify the pain. [s2, s4, s8, s19] |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs and third-party validation. | 3/5 | BigID documents its capabilities in detail, including classification with thousands of pre-trained classifiers across more than 100 languages, remediation workflows for access, retention and deletion, and a granted patent describing its machine-learning method for scoring personal-information findings. The Forrester and Gartner placements in the record reach it through BigID’s own blog and releases, and AppGate’s penetration test and retest cover one input-sanitization fix rather than discovery and classification, so no independent validation point bears on the scored capability. [s1, s2, s12, s16, s24, s31] |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 3/5 | The buyer-side demand signals dated within the past year are one signal kind, analyst category evaluations. They are Forrester's Q4 2025 privacy management evaluation, relayed in a December 2025 BigID release, and Gartner's January 2026 governance quadrant and Forrester's Q2 2026 discovery evaluation, both relayed on BigID's blog. No independently documented regulatory signal appears in the reviewed sources. [s13, s16, s12, s23] |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 4/5 | The Technology Policy Institute introduced CEO Dimitri Sirota as having founded two enterprise software companies focused on security and API management, including Layer Seven Technologies, which CA Technologies bought in 2013. BankInfoSecurity reports that he oversaw strategy for CA's API and security business units before co-founding BigID. Co-founder Nimrod Vax lists prior roles at Business Layers, Netegrity and CA Technologies. Independent sources document Sirota's two prior builds. The reviewed sources contain no category-defining track record. [s33, s19, s7] |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 5/5 | BankInfoSecurity reports that IDC found BigID was the world’s fourth-largest data privacy compliance software vendor in 2022, with $64.7 million in revenue and 8.1% market share, which is third-party-reported revenue scale. BigID names the University of Maryland, Telenor and the U.S. Army in customer stories, the FedRAMP Marketplace listing for Knox Systems names BigID among its services, and SecurityWeek relays BigID’s claim of nearly $100 million in recurring revenue. The independently reported revenue figure dates from 2022. [s19, s8, s11, s18] |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 3/5 | Calcalist reported in March 2024 that BigID had raised $320 million and that its valuation, above $1 billion, had remained largely unchanged since December 2020. SecurityWeek relays the company's claim of nearly $100 million in recurring revenue. Visible shipping on a raise broadly proportional to that claimed revenue fits a 3. Neither that claim nor the May 2026 cut of about 150 of 650 employees that Globes reported confirms the output per dollar a 4 needs. [s17, s18, s21, s20] |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 4/5 | Analysts, trade press and rival vendors place BigID in recognized categories without BigID's coaching. BankInfoSecurity reports IDC ranking BigID among privacy compliance software vendors. Forrester and Gartner evaluated it in discovery, privacy and governance categories, as BigID's announcements relay, and Sentra and Bedrock Data each publish comparison pages that place BigID in data security posture management. BigID is one of three Forrester Leaders in its discovery evaluation and a Challenger in Gartner's quadrant, which falls short of the category-defining standing a 5 needs. [s19, s12, s13, s16, s29, s28] |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 3/5 | BigID's connections to data catalogs such as Collibra, Informatica and Purview, and the remediation and privacy workflows customers configure in it, add friction to absorbing its function into another platform. Sentra's comparison page recommends Purview for Microsoft-centric organizations, so a catalog BigID integrates with also competes for part of its buyer, and the reviewed sources show no data flywheel or multi-year lock-in that bundling could not reproduce. [s1, s2, s4, s29] |
BigID sells to the security, privacy and governance teams in large organizations that must find sensitive data before they can protect it, meet privacy obligations or let AI systems use it. Its platform page frames the problem as sensitive, regulated, dark and shadow data scattered across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, hybrid and AI environments, and it says security teams need to know what data exists, where it lives and who can access it. The privacy suite targets the same data from the compliance side, automating data subject requests, consent, records of processing and assessments.
Buyers already fund markets for this problem. BankInfoSecurity reports IDC's 2022 revenue ranking of privacy compliance software vendors, and Forrester and Gartner run evaluations of sensitive data discovery, privacy management and data governance tools that BigID relays in its announcements. The quantified pain in the cited record comes from BigID's customer stories, such as the $5 million in risk exposure it reports addressing for the University of Maryland.
BigID now presents AI as a reason the problem matters. Its May 2026 appointment release describes BigID as an AI Security platform. Its AI governance page ties AI models, agents and prompts back to the sensitive data and permissions behind them, which extends the same discovery problem to a newer set of systems. [s2, s4, s19, s12, s16, s8, s22, s6]
BigID sells one platform that covers data discovery, classification, posture management, access governance, data loss prevention enrichment, remediation, privacy automation and AI governance. The homepage describes discovery across hundreds of sources and classification with thousands of pre-trained classifiers spanning more than 100 languages, and the platform page lists remediation workflows for access reduction, deletion, retention, labeling and policy enforcement.
BigID Data Access Governance connects users, service accounts, machine identities and AI systems to the data they can reach, and BigID AI Security & Governance links AI models, agents, copilots and prompts to the sensitive data, permissions and lineage behind them. BigID's August 2026 release says the platform can run fully air-gapped, with customers supplying their own approved language models.
BigID's own announcements carry the outside evaluations of its capability. BigID's blog reports that Forrester named it one of three Leaders among ten vendors in its Q2 2026 sensitive data discovery evaluation, with the top score on eleven criteria. The blog quotes Forrester crediting discovery across cloud, on-premises and mainframe environments. A December 2025 BigID release reports a Leader placement in Forrester's privacy management evaluation, and a March 2026 blog post reports a Challenger placement in Gartner's data and analytics governance quadrant. [s1, s2, s5, s6, s23, s12, s13, s16]
BigID competes with data security posture vendors for the same enterprise buyer. Its own comparison page lists BigID, Varonis, Sentra, Cyberhaven, Symmetry Systems and Rubrik as alternatives to Cyera, and Sentra's comparison page names BigID as a pioneer in data discovery and classification that suits compliance-heavy sectors. Bedrock Data, another rival, writes that BigID's broad scope brings slower deployment and heavier administration than dedicated security platforms.
BigID's privacy suite also puts it against privacy software vendors. BankInfoSecurity reports that IDC ranked BigID fourth among data privacy compliance software vendors by 2022 revenue, behind OneTrust, Securiti and TrustArc. Sentra's page recommends BigID for privacy-led use cases, Varonis for on-premises file systems and Purview for Microsoft-centric organizations.
BigID positions itself on breadth across security, privacy and AI governance in one platform, and its homepage lists integrations with data catalogs including Collibra, Informatica and Purview. Purview therefore appears in the record both as a catalog BigID integrates with and as a product rivals recommend to Microsoft-centric buyers. [s27, s29, s28, s19, s1]
BigID's traction evidence combines named customer stories, a federal listing, marketplace distribution and third-party rankings. BigID names the University of Maryland, Telenor and the U.S. Army in customer stories, and the FedRAMP Marketplace listing for Knox Systems names BigID among the services Knox delivers to federal agencies. A May 2026 BigID release on its Snowflake Native App quotes Snowflake's head of worldwide alliances and channels naming BigID as a partner.
IDC has ranked BigID's revenue, though the IDC figures date from 2022. BigID reports a fifth consecutive year among North America's fastest-growing technology companies. BankInfoSecurity reports that IDC placed BigID fourth in data privacy compliance software for 2022, with $64.7 million in revenue and an 8.1% share.
SecurityWeek reported in March 2024 that the company claims nearly $100 million in recurring revenue, and Calcalist reported in May 2026 that BigID was laying off about 20% of its workforce and employs around 600 people. [s8, s11, s25, s14, s15, s19, s18, s20]
BigID's founders came from security and identity software companies, and its CEO has a prior exit. The Technology Policy Institute introduced CEO Dimitri Sirota as having founded two enterprise software companies focused on security and API management, including Layer Seven Technologies, which CA Technologies bought in 2013. BankInfoSecurity reports that he oversaw strategy for CA's API and security business units before co-founding BigID, and co-founder Nimrod Vax lists prior roles at Business Layers, Netegrity and CA Technologies.
BigID added operating leadership in 2026. Its May 2026 release announced Mahesh Chukkapali as chief operating officer, and its company page lists his prior employers as Palo Alto Networks, HackerOne and Google. Calcalist reports that Sirota and Vax founded BigID in 2016. Calcalist and Globes reported in May 2026 that the company was laying off roughly a fifth of its staff, with Globes putting the cut at about 150 of 650 employees. [s33, s19, s7, s22, s17, s20, s21]
BigID documents a federal authorization path and a set of commercial attestations. Its federal page says BigID achieved FedRAMP certification through its partnership with Knox Systems, and the FedRAMP Marketplace listing for Knox Systems, a Class C (Moderate) offering on the agency path, names BigID among its services. BigID's certifications page states SOC 2 certification, PCI compliance evaluated by an independent assessor and alignment with ISO 27001, and it lists a TX-RAMP Level 2 certification for Texas state systems.
The public vulnerability record includes one disclosed flaw that was fixed. Appgate's threat advisory team reported CVE-2024-44771, a stored cross-site scripting flaw in BigID PrivacyPortal version 179 found during a December 2023 penetration test. Appgate reports that a patch was deployed a month after its report and that it retested the fix in January 2024. [s10, s11, s26, s24]
| Company | Relationship | Note | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyera | competes with | BigID's own comparison page lists BigID among the alternatives to Cyera for data security posture management buyers. | |
| Varonis | competes with | Named alongside BigID in BigID's and Sentra's data security posture management comparisons for the same enterprise data buyer. | |
| Sentra | competes with | Sentra publishes a comparison page that places BigID in the data security posture management field it competes in. | |
| Securiti | competes with | Competes for privacy compliance software buyers, where BankInfoSecurity reports IDC ranked Securiti ahead of BigID by 2022 revenue. | |
| OneTrust | competes with | Competes for privacy compliance software buyers, where BankInfoSecurity reports IDC ranked OneTrust ahead of BigID by 2022 revenue. | N/AWe scored these companies at different scopes, so the totals measure different things. |
| Microsoft Purview | adjacent | A data governance product BigID integrates with that Sentra's comparison page recommends for Microsoft-centric organizations. | N/AWe scored these companies at different scopes, so the totals measure different things. |
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BigID holds a granted US patent on machine-learning methods for scoring confidence in personal-information findings, and its federal authorization runs through the FedRAMP-listed Knox Systems offering. Customers operate BigID themselves, and replacing it means rebuilding classification policies, remediation and privacy workflows, and connections to data catalogs. Its buyers include the U.S. Army and organizations in regulated industries such as Telenor. Purview is both a catalog BigID connects to and a product Sentra recommends for Microsoft-centric organizations, so BigID also competes with Purview for those organizations.
| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 1/3 | BigID sells software that customers operate themselves, from discovery and classification through remediation workflows and privacy automation, and its pages describe teams using the platform to act on findings. The customer's team runs the product and owns the outcomes, which is the software-product level. |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 | Replacing BigID means rebuilding classification policies, remediation and retention workflows, privacy request automation and connections to catalogs such as Collibra and Purview, which is meaningful friction from integrations and learned workflows. The cited sources do not quantify migration costs or document non-exportable tuned state or a vendor-bound regulatory constraint. |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 2/3 | The FedRAMP Marketplace listing for Knox Systems, a Class C (Moderate) offering on the agency path, names BigID among its services, and BigID's federal page says its FedRAMP authorization came through that partnership. A federal buyer replacing BigID would need a similarly authorized alternative, which takes material time but remains feasible, while SOC 2 certification, an assessed PCI deployment and ISO 27001 alignment are ordinary enterprise preparation. |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 | BigID classifies data across structured, semi-structured and unstructured sources with thousands of pre-trained classifiers in more than 100 languages, and holds a granted patent on machine-learning methods for determining confidence in personal-information findings. BigID's blog quotes Forrester crediting its classification techniques, tuning and discovery across cloud, on-premises and mainframe environments, which is machine-learning and large-scale data engineering that takes years of specialized expertise. |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 3/3 | BigID names the U.S. Army as a customer and describes supporting Telenor's audits in a highly regulated industry, and the FedRAMP listing for Knox Systems opens federal procurement to it. BigID's blog quotes Forrester calling BigID a compelling choice for multinationals, large organizations and government entities, the regulated-enterprise and government buyer class. |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 2/3 | BigID discovers and classifies data where it is stored and drives access, privacy, retention and AI governance workflows on those findings, and its company page describes it as a data intelligence platform shared by security, privacy and governance teams. That is a platform with application features, and the reviewed sources describe no application whose operation depends on data passing through BigID. |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 2/3 | Google Patents lists US11531931B2, a patent on machine-learning methods for determining confidence levels of personal-information findings, as filed by Bigid Inc, granted in 2022 and active, and BigID's homepage describes its classification as patented. That granted patent is evidenced intellectual property BigID retains, while the reviewed sources name no retained cross-customer dataset or licensed content that would make the asset itself the moat. |
BigID sells to large organizations whose security, privacy and governance teams must locate and control sensitive data. BigID's blog quotes Forrester calling BigID a compelling choice for multinationals, large organizations and government entities with complex data environments and localization requirements, and BigID's named customer stories cover a university, a telecom and the U.S. Army.
BigID sells to several teams inside that buyer. BigID's company page describes one data intelligence platform shared by security, privacy, compliance, data governance and AI teams, and its privacy suite targets privacy teams handling data subject requests, consent and assessments. Sentra's comparison page recommends BigID for privacy-led use cases.
Federal agencies form a distinct segment. BigID's federal page describes discovery of controlled unclassified information and support for zero trust programs, and the FedRAMP Marketplace listing for Knox Systems names BigID among the services Knox delivers to federal customers.
BigID's core capability is discovering and classifying sensitive data at scale. The homepage describes discovery across hundreds of sources and classification with thousands of pre-trained classifiers spanning more than 100 languages, and BigID holds a granted US patent on machine-learning methods for determining confidence levels of personal-information findings.
BigID builds its access, privacy and AI products on that classification. BigID Data Access Governance maps identities and AI systems to the data they can reach, and BigID AI Security & Governance ties AI models, agents, copilots and prompts to the sensitive data, permissions and lineage behind them. BigID's August 2026 release says customers can run these capabilities fully air-gapped with their own approved language models.
BigID's announcements carry the outside evaluations of its capability. BigID's blog reports Forrester naming it one of three Leaders among ten vendors in its Q2 2026 sensitive data discovery evaluation. The blog quotes Forrester crediting discovery across cloud, on-premises and mainframe environments, while Bedrock Data, a rival, writes that BigID's breadth brings slower deployment and heavier administration.
BigID reaches buyers through direct enterprise sales, a federal partner and a data cloud marketplace. Its site steers visitors to scheduled demos, and its August 2026 release offers chief information security officers a complimentary two-week risk assessment. BigID reaches federal agencies through the Knox Systems FedRAMP offering, and its May 2026 release announced its DSPM product as a Snowflake Native App that runs inside a customer's Snowflake account.
The traction figures for BigID are its own claims and dated third-party measures. SecurityWeek reported in March 2024 that BigID claims nearly $100 million in recurring revenue. BankInfoSecurity reports IDC's ranking of BigID fourth in privacy compliance software by 2022 revenue, and BigID reports five consecutive years among North America's fastest-growing technology companies.
BigID changed its operating plan in 2026. It named Mahesh Chukkapali chief operating officer in May 2026. Calcalist reported the same month that BigID was laying off about 20% of its workforce, with BigID describing a shift to an AI-first approach in software development and operations.
BigID sells through a sales-led process and does not state prices in the reviewed sources. Its homepage invites visitors to schedule a personalized walkthrough with its experts, and its August 2026 release offers a complimentary two-week risk assessment with an executive-ready report as an entry point.
BigID packages its platform as suites and products. BigID's pages present a Security Suite, a Privacy Suite, Data Access Governance and AI Security & Governance. Its platform page describes discovery, classification, posture management, access intelligence, remediation and AI data security as parts of one platform, and the reviewed sources do not state which of these a buyer purchases.
BigID offers deployment models that keep scanning inside a customer's environment. The homepage says BigID can run locally without backhauling or copying data to the cloud, and its customer page lists cloud, hybrid and customer-managed deployment models based on data-sovereignty requirements. BigID's August 2026 release says the platform can run fully air-gapped with no outbound connectivity.
BigID's platform acts on findings as well as reporting them. BigID's security suite page describes automatically revoking access, deleting overexposed data and enforcing retention, and the Snowflake Native App lets customers install and run BigID's DSPM directly in their Snowflake account without moving data.
A rival describes the operating cost of that breadth. Bedrock Data writes that BigID's broad scope brings slower deployment and heavier administrative overhead than dedicated security platforms, which is a competitor's characterization.
BigID documents a federal authorization path and commercial attestations. BigID says it achieved FedRAMP certification through its partnership with Knox Systems. The FedRAMP Marketplace entry for Knox Systems includes BigID among its services and describes a Class C (Moderate) agency-path offering. BigID's certifications page states SOC 2 certification, PCI compliance evaluated by an independent assessor and alignment with ISO 27001, and it lists a TX-RAMP Level 2 certification.
Appgate publicly documented one vulnerability in BigID's software, and a patch followed. Appgate's threat advisory team reported CVE-2024-44771, a stored cross-site scripting flaw in BigID PrivacyPortal version 179 that it found during a December 2023 penetration test. Appgate reports that a patch was deployed a month after its report and that it retested the fix in January 2024.
BigID positions its platform as a shared data intelligence layer that works with tools customers already run. The homepage lists catalog integrations with Alation, Collibra, Informatica, Atlan, Purview and Unity, and the platform page describes enriching existing data loss prevention tools with BigID's classification.
BigID extends that reach through partners. Its DSPM runs as a Snowflake Native App inside a customer's Snowflake account, and BigID reaches federal agencies through the Knox Systems FedRAMP offering. BigID's August 2026 release says customers can connect their own approved language models, including through governed MCP connections.
Some of those partners also sell adjacent products. BigID integrates with the Purview catalog, which Sentra recommends for Microsoft-centric organizations.
The Technology Policy Institute introduced CEO Dimitri Sirota as having founded two enterprise software companies focused on security and API management, including Layer Seven Technologies, which CA Technologies bought in 2013. Co-founder Nimrod Vax lists prior roles at Business Layers, Netegrity and CA Technologies.
BigID added a chief operating officer in 2026 while reducing staff. Its May 2026 release named Mahesh Chukkapali chief operating officer, and BigID's company page lists his prior employers as Palo Alto Networks, HackerOne and Google. Globes reported the same month that BigID was laying off about 150 of its 650 employees. BigID told Calcalist it was shifting to an AI-first approach in software development and operations.
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | BigID: Data Security Platform | official | 2026-09-16 |
| f2 | Calcalist Ctech: BigID raises $60 million at over $1 billion valuation | press | 2026-09-16 |
| f3 | Tracxn BigID company profile | other | 2026-06-14 |
| f4 | Calcalist Ctech: BigID cuts 20% of workforce in shift to AI-first strategy | press | 2026-09-16 |
| f5 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry | other | 2026-06-13 |
| f6 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping | other | 2026-09-16 |
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