IG Central vs Microsoft Defender for Business

IG Central is a self-hosted, single-tenant governance engine for classifying, governing, and searching enterprise content where it already resides. It runs inside the customer’s environment and does not require data migration. Its drill-down LLM classification follows a records taxonomy and extracts typed metadata, sensitivity, and personally identifiable information. The platform enforces retention schedules, supports disposition workflows and policy application, and provides enterprise-wide search, an embedded document viewer, and governance review workflows. Users can inspect classifications, prompts, metadata, and outcomes, then correct classifications; those corrections feed MCP tools for ongoing model refinement. A transactional outbox tracks state changes and is described as crash-safe and fully auditable. Content can arrive through uploads or connected cloud services. Google Drive is available today, while additional connectors are planned. The maker says processing stays inside the customer’s network without public-AI dependency. Pricing is on request.

Microsoft Defender for Business has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.