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3. Security Monitoring

Andrew Carruthers1   and Sahir Ahmed2
(1)
Birmingham, UK
(2)
Bradford, UK
 

Security monitoring utilizes components that allow you to monitor, control, and manage your Snowflake estate. They are the internal and external alerting mechanisms defined and implemented to meet your organization’s security profile, where generated events provide advanced warning of malicious activity and cause you to take remedial action.

You also use third-party tooling for security monitoring because they provide another layer of protection against unauthorized ...

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