Snowflake Security: Securing Your Snowflake Data Cloud

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B. Herzberg, Y. CohenSnowflake Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7389-0_1

1. Snowflake Organization Structure

Ben Herzberg¹   and Yoav Cohen²

(1)

Modiin, Israel

(2)

Ness-Ziona, Israel

 

Snowflake offers organizations with a rich topology of objects to help manage larger and more complex data infrastructures, while simplifying topics like billing, invoicing, database replication, and more. At the root of each Snowflake deployment lies the organization object. Organizations are a logical entity, not tied to any specific cloud provider or region.

Prior to introducing the organization’s feature, the topmost object of a Snowflake deployment was the account, ...