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_3

3. Data Encryption and Ingestion

Ben Herzberg¹   and Yoav Cohen²

(1)

Modiin, Israel

(2)

Ness-Ziona, Israel

 

In this chapter, we’ll discuss how Snowflake uses encryption to secure your data. The good news is that Snowflake already provides a high standard of built-in, out-of-the-box encryption, leaving you to decide if your use cases require anything beyond that. For most people, encryption can be confusing. Our goal for this chapter is not to teach you cryptography, but to enable you to ask the right questions and seek additional information when it becomes relevant. Use this chapter ...