Level Up Your Data Security with Zscaler DSPM and Snowflake

Zscaler DSPM now helps secure data within the Snowflake platform. Unlock deep visibility, secure sensitive data and ensure compliance. 

We are excited to announce that Zscaler Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) has extended support for Snowflake—a leading cloud-based data platform for data warehousing and analytics. With this new integration, Zscaler DSPM empowers organizations to securely unlock the full potential of Snowflake data with comprehensive AI-powered discovery and classification to help organizations maintain data sovereignty, reduce risk, and streamline compliance. 

Background

In today's data-driven landscape, organizations are increasingly migrating their data warehousing and analytics to powerful platforms like Snowflake. The Snowflake Data Cloud offers unparalleled scalability and performance, but this rapid adoption also introduces significant security challenges. 

The Challenge: Securing Data at Scale

As data volumes grow, so does the attack surface, making it difficult to track sensitive data, manage complex access permissions, and meet ever-evolving compliance requirements. 

Organizations often struggle with:

• Limited visibility, manual classification and inventory
• Risk detection and posture management including
  • Understanding data lineage and anomalies
  • Managing dark data, overprivileged access, misconfigurations, and shadow IT
  • Assessing and mitigating data security risks
  • Implementing/enforcing effective data masking, encryption and policy
• Compliance and governance burden

While Snowflake provides a secure foundation and has partnered with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to define and promote best practices for securing Snowflake environments, each organization is responsible for implementing the necessary controls to maintain compliance, enforce least-privilege access, and reduce risk. Under Snowflake’s Shared Security Responsibility Model, organizations are accountable for how data is accessed, monitored, and protected within their environments.

Better Together: Zscaler DSPM for Snowflake

Together, Snowflake and Zscaler DSPM deliver on the shared security responsibility model for organizations to secure their data. Zscaler provides extended controls to address shadow IT risks and evolving regulatory compliance requirements. As a trusted Snowflake partner, Zscaler DSPM enables:

AI-Powered Data Discovery, Classification and Inventory: 

Zscaler DSPM provides comprehensive visibility by automatically discovering and inventorying all data assets within Snowflake. It helps to identify and categorize sensitive data with advanced LLM classification, using over 200+ built-in data classifiers, critical for enforcing security and compliance.

Risk and Posture Management: 
Zscaler DSPM continuously assesses data risks, enables security teams to prioritize and mitigate threats before they escalate into breaches, strengthening your overall security posture. It helps to: 

• Continuously monitor the security posture, with advanced threat correlation techniques, identifying vulnerabilities, providing context and risk prioritization to mitigate potential threats before they become issues.
• Prevent unauthorized access while ensuring least privilege access
• Enhance security by identifying gaps and applying policies such as data masking, encryption and more ensuring data remains secure
• Remediate risk with step by step remediation guidance to quickly address issues ensuring swift and effective responses to security threats.

Continuous Compliance and Governance: 

Zscaler DSPM streamlines data governance and simplifies compliance by providing a clear, auditable trail of data access, usage, and security posture. It helps organizations adhere to stringent regulations like SOC 2, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF 2.0, and Snowflake CIS benchmark by automating policy enforcement and providing continuous monitoring, reducing the burden of manual audits.

Overall, Snowflake customers can leverage Zscaler DSPM for automated data discovery and classification, precise and proactive risk monitoring to enhance their security measures across their Snowflake data landscape to support rigorous compliance protocols (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and the Snowflake CIS Benchmark).

Learn more

Schedule 1:1 demo with our specialists. You can also watch webinar Take Your Data Security to the Next Level with Snowflake and Zscaler DSPM to learn more about securing your Snowflake data, achieving regulatory compliance, and maintaining agility with Zscaler DSPM.