Know where sensitive data lives and where it travels, and run the platform that governs it in-country or fully air-gapped.
BigID maps residency, cross-border flows and third-party access from discovery, applies localization policy, and keeps the evidence regulators ask for. The platform itself stays inside your boundary too: data ringfenced in any of 30+ countries, AI powered by the models you approve, and the full platform, AI and agents included, running with zero outbound connectivity.
Sensitive and personal data located by region, with every flow to another jurisdiction and every vendor that can reach it
Where BigID runs
The whole platform, AI included, fully air-gapped
The same build as ringfenced SaaS in 30+ countries, with AI, agents and reporting running on zero outbound connectivity
Whose models
Your approved models power the AI
Classification and data intelligence run with no dependency on an external LLM, and no data or metadata sent to one
Where sovereignty is now
Sovereignty now reaches the AI, and the tools that govern it
European regulators have spent a decade asking where personal data goes. GDPR transfer rules, the Data Act, DORA, NIS2 and the AI Act now ask the same of models, cloud providers and the security stack itself, and the Commission's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act sets sovereignty levels for public sector procurement. Beyond Europe, CISA's CI Fortify mandate asks critical infrastructure to keep essential services running through weeks of isolation from cloud and third-party connections, and the risk of depending on a single AI vendor is pulling AI itself back inside the boundary. BigID answers both questions on one platform: where your data lives and moves, and where the system that governs it runs.
For privacy and the DPO
Transfers you can account for. Residency, flows and safeguards recorded from live discovery, so a transfer impact assessment starts from the real estate and the evidence is ready when a regulator asks.
For security and the CISO
A control plane that stays inside. Configuration, findings, dashboards, keys and audit logs held in your environment, in the country you name, with no phone-home telemetry.
For AI and platform teams
AI governed on your own terms. Models, agents and training data inventoried by region, and BigID's own AI running on the models you have approved, including in disconnected environments.
See it operate
Watch it work
Cross-Border Data Compliance Made Simple | BigID & DOJ EO 14117 Explained
Finding the sensitive data that falls under cross-border rules, where it sits, and which transfers and recipients put it in scope.
Two boundaries to hold: where the data goes, and where its governance runs
BigID scans each region in place, so data is read where it lives and never copied out to be classified. Flows between jurisdictions are mapped from what discovery finds, and the control plane holding the findings sits in whichever boundary your regulator names.
Air-gapped
The full platform, AI and agents included, with zero outbound connectivity
An air-gapped BigID runs the exact same software as the cloud service. AI classification, data intelligence and agentic workflows run on the model you install inside the network, so the most sensitive environments get every capability, with nothing to call out to and nothing phoning home. BigID stays fully operational through the kind of sustained isolation CI Fortify plans for.
What runs disconnected
The sealed deployment is the full product, operated end to end without a live connection to BigID or to any hosted model.
Discovery and classification across structured, unstructured and mainframe data
AI classification and data intelligence on your approved model, installed locally
AI governance: model and agent inventory, assessments and policy
Remediation, access governance and lifecycle workflows
Natural-language reporting and dashboards
APIs and MCP-based workflows for the agents and copilots running inside the network
Configuration, findings, prompts and audit logs held entirely inside
No phone-home telemetry and no hosted API needed to function
Built forDefense and intelligenceFederal and public sectorCritical infrastructureRegulated financeHealthcare and life sciencesSemiconductor and industrial IP
Sovereign AI
The data, the models and the system governing them, all inside your boundary
Sovereign AI keeps data, processing and governance within a boundary you define: national, organizational or a disconnected network. BigID is built once and deployed anywhere, so discovery, classification, AI governance and agentic workflows run the same way in a sealed environment as they do in the cloud.
Local control planeEverything stays inside. Configuration, scan orchestration, findings, dashboards, APIs, AI prompts and audit logs remain within your environment.
Bring your own modelYour approved models power BigID's AI. Classification and data intelligence run without sending sensitive data or metadata to a third-party model.
Built-in product securityKeys and credentials stay yours. Customer-controlled encryption and key management, credentials in your own vault, and least-privilege scanning.
Automation beyond accessAgentic workflows included. APIs, reporting, policy orchestration and MCP-based workflows for agents and copilots work the same in self-managed and air-gapped deployments.
Deploy asMulti-tenant SaaSResidency ringfenced SaaS, 30+ countriesSingle tenantSelf-managed in your VPCFedRAMPFully air-gapped on-premises
Capabilities
From the first residency map to the regulator's question, on one platform
Data sovereignty and sovereign AI draw on the same discovery. BigID finds the data and the AI, knows where each sits and what reaches it, and runs inside whichever boundary the program requires.
Data sovereignty
Where regulated data lives, where it travels, who can reach it, and the policy that holds it in place.
Residency discovery and data mapping
Every sovereignty decision depends on knowing what data sits where. BigID builds the map from discovery, including whose data it is.
Sensitive, personal, regulated and high-value data found across cloud, SaaS, hybrid and on-prem
Region and jurisdiction recorded for every data store and finding
Identity-aware data maps that tie records to the person and the country they belong to
Classification in the languages and formats each region stores data in
Where data is processed recorded alongside where it is stored
Cross-border flows and transfer governance
Residency comes straight from discovery, so BigID can show where regulated data moves, which recipients it reaches, and whether each transfer is covered.
Cross-border movement mapped by the residency of the data and the country it moves to
Transfers to high-risk or conflicting jurisdictions detected and surfaced
Safeguards recorded for each transfer, for transfer impact assessments
Third-party sharing and vendor transfers mapped with purposes and data categories
Continuous visibility and alerts as new flows appear
Access by jurisdiction and third party
Data can stay in-country and still be reached from outside it. BigID shows who and what can open sovereign data, and flags access that crosses the line.
Access to sovereign data mapped for employees, service accounts and AI agents
Agents assessed through the identities they run under, with the data in their reach
Third-party and vendor access monitored against where the data is allowed to go
Access activity tracked, with unusual behavior flagged for people and agents
Excess access right-sized and stale permissions revoked
Localization policy and remediation
Write the residency rule once and BigID checks the estate against it, routes every exception to an owner, and carries the fix through.
Residency and localization policies aligned to the mandates each region sets
Policy exceptions flagged and routed through workflow to the data owner
Standardized labels and tags that carry residency into the tools that enforce it
AI-guided remediation: relocate, delete or tokenize out-of-policy data
Agentic workflows that investigate an exception and carry the change through
AI and platform sovereignty
The AI the business runs, and the platform governing it, kept inside the boundary the program requires.
Sovereign AI governance
An AI system carries the residency of the data it learned from, and every prompt it answers is another transfer. BigID inventories models and agents with that data, shows where their inference and retrieval happen, and governs them locally.
Models, agents, copilots and pipelines discovered, sanctioned and shadow
Sensitive data found in AI training and inference, with its residency
Which models trained on what data, and the region each one runs in
Where prompts, outputs and retrieval go, so inference stays in-region
Agents kept to data inside the boundary, through the identities they run under
MCP servers and AI tools found, with the data each one exposes and where it sends it
Model choice left open: BigID's AI runs on whichever approved model you select, reducing dependence on any one AI vendor
AI risk assessments aligned to the EU AI Act and the NIST AI RMF
AI governance applied without a vendor-hosted control plane
Sovereign deployment and operation
One build runs in every mode, so the sovereign deployment is the full product. The control plane, the models and the logs stay where your regulator expects them.
Data ringfenced within any of 30+ countries for residency and sovereignty requirements
Single tenant isolation as a deployment flag, on the same software
Fully air-gapped with zero outbound connectivity and no phone-home telemetry
Outposts that process data locally, with no copying and no backhaul
Bring your own approved language model, with no external LLM dependency
Customer-controlled encryption and keys, and credentials in your own vault
Evidence and reporting for regulators
Sovereignty has to be shown as well as held. BigID keeps the history and produces the report from inside your deployment.
Audit-ready reports on residency, transfers, access and policy exceptions
Historical compliance evidence, available at any point in time
Transfer records that feed the RoPA and transfer impact assessments
Every action by a user, system or agent logged under the same access controls
Reports asked for in natural language, from BigID or over MCP, in self-managed and air-gapped deployments
Regulation
The rules a sovereignty program answers to
Most of the pressure comes from Europe, and it now spans personal data, non-personal data, operational resilience and AI. BigID supplies the findings and evidence each one asks for, and the same approach extends to national laws elsewhere.
GDPR transfer rules
Personal data leaving the EEA, mapped to its safeguard, with the records a transfer impact assessment needs
EU Data Act
Non-personal data held in cloud services located and mapped, for portability and for third-country access requests
DORA and NIS2
Sensitive data held by financial entities, essential services and their ICT providers located, with provider access visible and protection evidenced
EU AI Act
AI systems inventoried with their training data, assessed for risk, and documented
Public sector sovereignty levels
A platform that runs in-country or air-gapped, for procurement under the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act
National localization laws
India's DPDP, China's PIPL and Brazil's LGPD, with residency and transfer rules applied per region
CI Fortify
Vital systems and their data inventoried, third-party connections traced and criticality tiered, on a platform that keeps running air-gapped
US Data Security Program
Bulk sensitive data and the countries of concern it could reach, under the DOJ rule implementing EO 14117
Runs acrossCloudSaaSOn-premHybrid, across regions and business unitsMainframeAI data stores
Proof
Certified and independently scored for security by design
Certifications and analyst scores
A Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions, Q2 2026, with the highest possible score for secure-by-design commitments, on-premises data source coverage, cloud data source coverage and language support
“BigID is engineered for performance and petabyte scale,” with strengths in discovery that include mainframe environments
“We needed to automate processes and data management across systems… BigID was the one solution that did this…”
Chief Privacy Officer, Global Telecoms Company
“BigID gives me better visibility into sensitive data, helps prioritize security protections, reduces attack surfaces…”
CISO, Global Healthcare Company
Before you commit
What sovereignty leads ask before they sign
How is sovereign AI different from data sovereignty?
Data sovereignty is about where data lives and moves. Sovereign AI adds the models, the AI lifecycle and the systems that govern them, so the controls themselves stay inside the boundary. BigID covers both on one platform, which is why this hub brings them together.
Does the air-gapped deployment give up any capability?
It runs the exact same software, AI included. Discovery, classification, remediation, AI governance, APIs, reporting and MCP-based agent workflows are equivalent in every deployment mode. The AI runs on the model you install inside the network, so nothing depends on a hosted API.
We are moving to a sovereign cloud. What does BigID add?
It shows what the sovereign cloud holds and what leaves it. A sovereign cloud decides where infrastructure runs. BigID finds the regulated data inside it, maps the flows to other regions and vendors, shows who and what can reach it, and deploys inside the same boundary.
Take it further
Guides for residency, transfers, isolation and AI inside the boundary
Bring the regions and the regulators you answer to. We will map where regulated data lives and moves on your own estate, and show the deployment that keeps BigID inside the same boundary.
