Extend identity-centric data governance to Snowflake

SailPoint Data Access Security integrates with Snowflake to secure data access in the AI era

Data, AI, and expanding risk

The Snowflake data platform is the backbone for many modern enterprises, powering analytics, applications, and AI innovation. It contains some of the most valuable business data, such as customer Personally Identifiable Information (PII), financial records, employee information, and high-value intellectual property.

But as usage of Snowflake and similar cloud data platforms expands, so does the complexity of protecting and governing critical data access. Employees, contractors, and third parties already create significant oversight challenges.

Now, AI-powered solutions and autonomous AI agents add another layer of risk. They are able to query massive datasets at speed, sometimes without direct human oversight. This introduces new blind spots, increases the chance of harmful data exposure, and raises the stakes for safeguarding sensitive information.

Organizations need a way to consistently govern data access across Snowflake while enabling the scale and speed their business demand.

That’s where SailPoint Data Access Security comes in.

What’s new: SailPoint + Snowflake Data Platform

We’re excited to announce new capabilities within SailPoint Data Access Security that extend identity-first data access governance capabilities to the Snowflake data platform. With this new integration, enterprises can bring Snowflake data access under the same SailPoint governance frameworks used to manage applications, infrastructure, and business-critical data spread across diverse file storage systems.

This integration is available today for all SailPoint Data Access Security customers.

Why it matters for enterprises

By connecting Data Access Security to Snowflake, enterprises can:

• Unify governance: Manage Snowflake access alongside applications and file systems for a single, consistent governance approach across SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.
• Reduce risk: Detect and remediate over-permissioned accounts to contain entitlement sprawl and limit data exposure.
• Simplify compliance: Streamline certifications and audit requirements with context-rich access reviews enhanced by Snowflake metadata and data classification tags.
• Accelerate AI adoption: Correlate access permissions for employees, contractors, and AI agents so data can be used responsibly to power innovation.

Snowflake provides strong native access controls. But only SailPoint adds the missing layer of identity context — connecting Snowflake access to the broader picture of how all identities interact across applications, systems, unstructured files, and structured data.

Key capabilities

Data Access Security’s Snowflake integration introduces a comprehensive set of capabilities:

• Snowflake data integration — Ingest Snowflake roles, entitlements, and metadata to enable identity-first data access governance.
• Automated data discovery & classification — Use Snowflake’s native data classification engine to detect and tag sensitive data like PII, PHI, and financial records.
• Context-rich certifications — Enrich access reviews with Snowflake metadata, data classification tags, and ownership details for more accurate, efficient audits.
• Risk-based access analysis — Identify high-risk assets and help facilitate the remediation of over-permissioned accounts with automated workflows.
• Centralized reporting — Consolidate Snowflake insights with data from other systems for comprehensive visibility and governance.

Together, these capabilities give enterprises the essential tools to help enforce least-privilege access, demonstrate compliance, and mitigate risks from human, machine, and AI agents.

Govern with confidence in the AI era

Snowflake holds some of enterprises’ most valuable data assets — and the risks of overexposure are only increasing. With SailPoint Data Access Security’s new Snowflake integration, organizations can unify identity and data governance, ensuring that only the right identities — human, machine, or AI agent — have access to the right data, at the right time, for the right purpose.

Learn more about SailPoint Data Access Security for Snowflake.

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