Fortanix Partners with BigID for Upleveling Data Security

Many businesses have more data than they know what to do with, let alo ne protect it all. As businesses adopt AI and prepare for the coming post-quantum era, the risks tied to this data have never been higher. It’s a perfect storm that organizations need to be prepared for: cyberattacks grow more sophisticated, regulations more stringent, and compliance failures more costly.

Enterprises have turned to data security posture management (DSPM) tools to help map and understand their risk landscape. These platforms are excellent at locating sensitive data, surfacing vulnerabilities, and flagging compliance issues. But there’s a catch: While certain DSPM solutions have some remediations and masking capabilities, they stop short of automating data protection with encryption and tokenization.

This is where the partnership between Fortanix and BigID comes in. Together, Fortanix and BigID bridge the gap between data discovery and data encryption, resulting in a closed-loop solution that identifies sensitive data and protects it with encryption, tokenization, and world-class key management—all while keeping businesses agile enough to prepare for an AI-driven and post-quantum future.

The Road to Automated Data Discovery, Classification, and Protection

Data security posture management (DSPM) plays a crucial role by shining a spotlight on data risk. These tools discover sensitive information, such as personally identifiable information (PII), personal health information (PHI), payment card data, or proprietary business assets, and map how that data flows across sprawling IT architectures. They highlight compliance gaps for frameworks like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

Once sensitive data has been identified and classified, the next logical step is to secure it as quickly as possible while balancing security, compliance and utility.

Key considerations include:

Encryption as a major ally: Data must be encrypted across files, databases, cloud buckets, and SaaS platforms. Centralized management with a next-gen hardware security module (HSM) ensures strong protection, crypto-agility, and compliance.
Data masking and tokenization: Sensitive values need to be obscured for analytics, AI/ML workflows, and application development. Format-preserving tokenization keeps data useful while removing risk.
Access control and auditability: Least-privilege access, robust logging, and compliance reporting are essential to prove that security controls are consistently enforced.
Operational efficiency: Automation is critical here because enterprises can’t afford a patchwork of manual processes that slow innovation and introduce more risk.

At the same time, you also need to make sure that your data remains usable on a practical level. For example, analysts, data scientists, and AI models all depend on access to rich datasets, meaning the goal is to protect them without compromising their usability or exposing sensitive details.

Fortanix + BigID: Democratize your data for intelligent data protection

The future of data protection is integrated DSPM paired with industry-leading encryption and tokenization that unifies workflows and eliminates manual handoffs. With discovery, classification, and automated protection tightly connected, organizations can identify sensitive data wherever it resides, automatically apply encryption or tokenization policies, enforce compliance consistently across environments, and maintain a closed-loop system with full audit trails.

This vision ensures that once data is discovered, it’s instantly protected with no gaps or delays. And the partnership between Fortanix and BigID makes this vision a reality. Specifically, BigID discovers and classifies sensitive data, from PII and PHI to financial and proprietary information, while Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM), a next-gen HSM with built-in Key Mangement solution, automates encrypting, tokenizing, or masking that data, triggered directly by BigID’s classification events.

It’s a seamless integration that eliminates manual intervention and the mistakes that might come along with it. Key benefits include:

Automated discovery-to-protection: Integrate data visibility and control with data encryption at rest, in use, and in motion.
Accelerated compliance: Automatically enforce encryption and tokenization policies that meet regulatory requirements.
Enhanced data utility: Keep sensitive data usable for analytics, AI, and machine learning through format-preserving tokenization.
Operational efficiency: Reduce complexity and costs by consolidating multiple siloed tools into a single, unified framework.

With Fortanix and BigID, enterprises no longer face the frustrating gap between “knowing” and “doing.”

Looking Ahead: Security in the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Era

Data security is ever-evolving. Quantum computing is getting real by the minute, and while today’s encryption standards are robust, they won’t withstand the quantum computers of the future. Quantum computing will make todays widely used cryptographic algorithms obsolete, which raises a chilling prospect: data being encrypted today could be harvested and decrypted later when quantum capabilities catch up.

This looming risk is inevitable and makes post-quantum data security an urgent consideration. Fortanix addresses this head-on with future-ready protection, so enterprises can prepare for the next wave of cryptographic transformation without disruption.

Turn Insight into Action with the Fortanix + BigID Advantage

We live in a world of multiplying threats, regulatory scrutiny, and the coming post-quantum era; enterprises need a closed-loop solution that automates discovery-to-protection workflows.

That’s exactly what Fortanix and BigID deliver. Together, we provide: