Introduction
Snowflake architecture has been built with security in mind from the very beginning. A wide range of security features are made available from data encryption to advanced key management to versatile security policies to role-based data access and many more, at no additional cost. This post will describe data encryption and data masking functionalities.
Snowflake Security Reference Architecture
Snowflake Security Reference Architecture includes various state-of-the-art security techniques that offer multiple outstanding cloud security capabilities. It includes data encryption while data at rest, secure data transfers while data in transit, role-based table access, column and row-level access to a particular table, network access/IP range filtering, multi-factor authentication, Federated Single Single On, etc.