Snowflake Launches New Cybersecurity Workload to Detect and Respond to Threats with the Data Cloud

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Snowflake has launched a new Cybersecurity workload that offers organizations a secure and scalable data platform to enhance their cyber defenses. This solution aids security teams in eliminating blind spots and accelerating threat response. Key clients such as CSAA Insurance Group, DoorDash, and Dropbox are already utilizing this feature to unify their data for improved analytics. The workload allows for seamless access to both security and enterprise data, facilitating comprehensive security compliance and vulnerability management.

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• Launch of Cybersecurity workload enhances Snowflake's product offerings.
• Major clients like DoorDash and Dropbox utilizing the new workload.
• Integration with partners like Hunters and Panther Labs provides additional security capabilities.

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• Snowflake’s new Cybersecurity workload provides a unified, secure, and scalable data platform for helping security teams eliminate blind spots and respond to threats at cloud-scale
• Customers like CSAA Insurance Group, DoorDash, Dropbox, Figma, and TripActions are leveraging Snowflake’s Cybersecurity workload to unify data, gain near-unlimited visibility, and combat threats faster with powerful analytics
• Cybersecurity partners like Hunters, Panther Labs, and Securonix provide security capabilities on top of customers’ Snowflake accounts with connected applications

No-Headquarters/BOZEMAN, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced the launch of a new Cybersecurity workload that enables cybersecurity teams to better protect their enterprises with the Data Cloud. Using Snowflake’s platform and an extensive ecosystem of partners delivering security capabilities with connected applications, cybersecurity teams can quickly gain visibility and automation at cloud-scale.

Snowflake Launches New Cybersecurity Workload to Detect and Respond to Threats with the Data Cloud (Photo: Business Wire)

Organizations today are faced with a continuously evolving threat landscape, with 55% of security pros reporting that their organization experienced an incident or breach involving supply chains or third-party providers in the past 12 months, according to Forrester*. Current security architectures built around legacy security and information management systems (SIEMs) are not designed to handle the volume and variety of data necessary to stay ahead of cyberthreats. With legacy SIEMs imposing restrictive ingest costs, limited retention windows, and proprietary query languages, security teams struggle to gain the visibility they need to protect their organizations.

With Snowflake’s Cybersecurity workload, customers gain access to the power and elasticity of Snowflake’s platform to natively handle structured, semi-structured, and unstructured logs. Customers are able to efficiently store years of high-volume data, search with scalable on-demand compute resources, and gain insights using universal languages like SQL and Python, currently in private preview. With Snowflake, organizations can also unify their security data with enterprise data in a single source of truth, enabling contextual data from HR systems or IT asset inventories to inform detections and investigations for higher fidelity alerts, and running fast queries on massive amounts of data. Teams gain unified visibility across their security posture, eliminating data silos without prohibitive data ingest or retention costs. Beyond threat detection and response, the Cybersecurity workload supports a broad range of use cases including security compliance, cloud security, identity and access, vulnerability management, and more.

TripActions, the leading all-in-one travel, corporate card, and expense management solution, is investing in its long-term cybersecurity data strategy with the Data Cloud.

“With Snowflake as our security data lake, we are able to simplify our security program architecture and remove data management overhead,” said Prabhath Karanth, Sr. Director of Security, Compliance & Trust, TripActions. “Snowflake has been vital in helping us gain a complete picture of our security posture, eliminating blind spots and reducing noise so we can continue to provide user trust where it matters most. Deploying a modern technology stack from Snowflake is a pivotal piece of our cybersecurity strategy.”

Snowflake’s Rich Ecosystem of Partners Enables Best-of-Breed Security

Snowflake is heavily investing in its extensive ecosystem of partners to transform the security industry and enable customers to choose best-of-breed applications that fit their needs. Snowflake integrates with partners including Hunters, Panther Labs, and Securonix to deliver industry-leading cybersecurity capabilities to customers with the Data Cloud using connected applications.

Snowflake’s modern security architecture allows customers to gain control of their data, leverage pre-built content and security capabilities on top of their existing Snowflake environments, and utilize a single copy of data across cybersecurity use cases. With Snowflake’s Data Cloud, tightly integrated connected applications, and data from providers on Snowflake Data Marketplace, Snowflake is pioneering a new standard architecture for security teams looking to achieve their security goals.

Snowflake Ventures, which focuses on investing in companies that help accelerate and augment the growth and adoption of the Snowflake Data Cloud, has already invested in Hunters.ai, Lacework, Panther, and Securonix. These investments have helped drive product alignment to further eliminate security data silos and enable data-driven strategies for joint customers.

“Snowflake is leading the security data lake movement, helping defenders bring their data and analytics together in a unified, secure, and scalable data platform,” said Omer Singer, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, Snowflake. “With Snowflake’s Cybersecurity workload, we further empower security teams in the Data Cloud so that they can collaborate with diverse stakeholders and succeed in their vital mission to protect the enterprise.”

A variety of Snowflake customers and partners will be presenting at Snowflake Summit 2022, live in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 13-16, 2022, to share how they use Snowflake for Cybersecurity. Check out the Cybersecurity track agenda, and register for the conference here.

Additional Support Quotes:

“Snowflake’s Cybersecurity workload is a natural fit for Securonix’s open approach to security analytics, enabling joint customers to respond to cyberthreats faster, at cloud-scale,” said Sachin Nayyar, CEO, Securonix. “Supporting Snowflake as a connected application and partner allows us to give customers the control and cost-efficiency they want, coupled with the advanced threat detection and response capabilities they need.”

“With access to all of the data sources in Snowflake as our security data lake, we have better correlations across multiple attack surfaces and analytics are automatically actionable,” said Pallavi Damle, Vice President of Enterprise Cybersecurity, Netgear. “And as a result, it has led to faster incident response from our side.”

Learn More:

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*Predictions 2022: Cybersecurity, Risk, and Privacy by Forrester published on October 28, 2021

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains express and implied forwarding-looking statements, including statements regarding (i) Snowflake’s business strategy, (ii) Snowflake’s products, services, and technology offerings, including those that are under development or not generally available, (iii) market growth, trends, and competitive considerations, and (iv) the integration, interoperability, and availability of Snowflake’s products with and on third-party platforms. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those described under the heading “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and the Annual Reports on Form 10-K that Snowflake files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In light of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. As a result, you should not rely on any forwarding-looking statements as predictions of future events.

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About Snowflake

Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries, including 506 of the 2021 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) as of April 30, 2022, use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses. Learn more at snowflake.com.

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FAQ

What is the new Cybersecurity workload launched by Snowflake?

The Cybersecurity workload by Snowflake provides a secure, scalable platform that helps security teams improve threat detection and response.

Which companies are using Snowflake's Cybersecurity workload?

Companies like CSAA Insurance Group, DoorDash, Dropbox, and Figma are leveraging the Cybersecurity workload.

When was Snowflake's Cybersecurity workload announced?

Snowflake's Cybersecurity workload was announced on June 7, 2022.

How does Snowflake's Cybersecurity workload improve data analysis?

It enables organizations to unify security data with enterprise data for better insights using SQL and Python, enhancing analytics capabilities.

What benefits does Snowflake's Cybersecurity workload offer?

The benefits include improved visibility, reduced data silos, and support for various security use cases such as compliance and access management.