Varonis vs. BigID
BigID focuses on data discovery and privacy workflows. Varonis goes further by combining accurate classification, automated remediation, and integrated threat detection to actively reduce data risk.
Organizations choose Varonis when they need security outcomes, not just privacy discovery and reporting.
Trusted by 8,000+ customers
Trusted by 8,000+ customers
Why Companies Choose Varonis over BigID
Varonis continuously removes stale permissions, locks down overexposed data, and enforces lead privilege - without requiring manual intervention.
Varonis natively correlates users, service accounts, roles, and groups with the data they can access, providing context tools like Cyera lack.
Varonis monitors how data is actually accessed and used, enabling detection of insider threats, compromised accounts, and misuse - not just misconfiguration.
Varonis includes industry-recognized threat detection and response capabilities built specfically to protect sensitive data at scale, rather than relying on compliance - or privacy-oriented workflows.
Customers choose Varonis to reduce blast radius, minimize standing access, and stop data-centric attacks - not just to support privacy initiatives or maintain data inventories.
Customers choose Varonis to lower blast radius, reduce standing access, and minimize exposure, not just to inventory sensitive data.
Varonis continuously removes stale permissions, locks down overexposed data, and enforces lead privilege - without requiring manual intervention.
Varonis natively correlates users, service accounts, roles, and groups with the data they can access, providing context tools like Cyera lack.
Varonis monitors how data is actually accessed and used, enabling detection of insider threats, compromised accounts, and misuse - not just misconfiguration.
Varonis includes industry-recognized threat detection and response capabilities built specfically to protect sensitive data at scale, rather than relying on compliance - or privacy-oriented workflows.
Customers choose Varonis to reduce blast radius, minimize standing access, and stop data-centric attacks - not just to support privacy initiatives or maintain data inventories.
Customers choose Varonis to lower blast radius, reduce standing access, and minimize exposure, not just to inventory sensitive data.
BigID uses complex, modular licensing
BigID requires you to purchase a foundational license, then add separate bundles to unlock security capabilities. To match Varonis feature parity, you'll need:
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DSPM Bundle: Permissions analysis, remediation, risks
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Data Minimization Bundle: Deletion and privacy remediation workflows
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Insider Threat Bundle: Retention and access management
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BigID Concierge: Post-sale professional services (a paid add-on)
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Designated Support Engineer: Dedicated TAM support (a paid add-on)
Why it matters: Varonis delivers discovery, classification, threat detection, remediation, professional services, and dedicated support in one predictable platform price.
BigID focuses exclusively
on discovery
BigID is fundamentally discovery and privacy-centric. It helps catalog where sensitive data exists, primarily to support governance and compliance workflows but it stops there.
Varonis goes beyond discovery to deliver true data security. By correlating sensitivity with identity, permissions, activity, and posture, Varonis doesn't just show you where data lives - we actively reduce exposure and enforce least privilege.
Why it matters: Knowing where sensitive data exists doesn't reduce risk. Securing access to it does.
BigID can't detect threats to your data
BigID does not provide threat detection, behavioral analytics, or real-time monitoring of how data is accessed. It cannot identify insider threats, compromised identities, ransomeware activity, or data exfiltration - nor support forensic investigations.
Varonis audits every data access, applies advanced behavior-based analytics, and detects threats at they happen. Combined with 24x7x365 Managed Data Detection and Response (MDDR), Varonis investigates anomalies and responds to incidents before damage spreads.
Why it matters: Data breaches aren't compliance failures - they're active attacks exploiting access in real time.
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