Case Study: BigID Strengthens Trust Through Continuous Product Security Validation

Industry: Data Security and Privacy Technology

Organization: BigID

Security Leadership: Kyle Kurdziolek - VP Security

Product: Terra Security Continuous Pentesting

Background

BigID is a leading data security, privacy, and governance platform, helping organizations discover, manage, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments.

As a security company itself, BigID operates under heightened expectations. Customers rely on BigID to secure their most sensitive data, making product security foundational to the company’s credibility and success.

Security Leadership in a Trust-Critical Business

BigID’s product security leadership is responsible for ensuring that the platform meets the highest standards of security, reliability, and integrity.

Security must be proactive and continuous, matching the pace of feature development and infrastructure changes, while producing defensible evidence for customers, auditors, and internal stakeholders.

Kyle Kurdziolek - VP Security said: “Terra’s agentic pen-testing boosted our ROI by over 100%. Every dollar saved on repetitive tasks went straight into deeper, quality testing based on our business context.”

The Challenge: Proving Security in a Security Product

For BigID, security assurance is not just an internal requirement, it is a core part of the product promise.

Traditional penetration testing cycles created gaps between changes and validation, making it harder to confidently demonstrate that new features and integrations were secure at all times.

BigID needed a way to continuously validate exploitable risk across its evolving platform, without slowing innovation or creating unnecessary friction for engineering teams.

Continuous Validation Aligned with Product Velocity

By leveraging Terra Security, BigID adopted a continuous, exploit-driven approach to penetration testing that runs in parallel with development.

Security findings are tied directly to real attack paths and actual system behavior, allowing teams to focus on issues that pose real risk to customers and their data.

This approach enables earlier detection, faster remediation, and higher confidence in every release.

Reducing Noise, Increasing Confidence

Rather than overwhelming teams with long lists of vulnerabilities, continuous pentesting helps BigID focus on what is truly exploitable in context.

This sharpens prioritization, improves collaboration between security and engineering, and reinforces a shared understanding of risk across the organization.

Demonstrable Assurance for Customers and Auditors

BigID operates in environments subject to strict privacy and security requirements, including enterprise customer audits and compliance frameworks.

Continuous penetration testing provides living evidence that security controls are actively validated, not assumed, supporting customer trust and sales conversations.

Takeaway

BigID’s experience shows how security vendors can hold themselves to the same standards they advocate for customers. By embedding continuous pentesting into product security, BigID reinforces trust while sustaining rapid innovation.