Snowflake security: how to manage and secure data access at scale

The text discusses the challenges of managing and securing access to data in a data warehouse or lake tool like Snowflake, as applications, users, and data multiply. It introduces Veza, an authorization platform for data security that solves this problem by mapping identities through access control structures to data, making it easy to understand, manage, and control data access. The text then delves into the details of how Snowflake manages data access, highlighting its complex and fine-grained access controls around roles, users, and privileges. It explains that Veza addresses these concerns by mapping identities to data, allowing organizations to visualize identity-to-data relationships, understand effective permissions, track the history of permissions for threat response, constantly monitor for least privilege violations, and conduct intelligent access reviews. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of restoring the relationship between identities and data in managing complex data access landscapes effectively.