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In today’s data-driven enterprises, managing access control is critical to ensure that sensitive data remains secure while still being accessible to the right individuals. As businesses scale, the number of users, roles, and warehouses in Snowflake can grow exponentially. Hence it increasingly challenging to keep track of who has access to what.
Imagine a scenario where an organization has multiple warehouses in Snowflake, each serving different teams with varying levels of access. The data security team is tasked with ensuring that only authorized users have access to these warehouses. Instead of manually checking each warehouse’s grants, they can automate this process using a custom Snowflake Stored Procedure.
Let’s say a global retail company, XXX, uses Snowflake to manage its data warehouses across different regions. Company’s security policy mandates that only the regional managers should have USAGE privileges on their warehouses. Every week, the procedure runs automatically, generating a report that lists all users with USAGE privileges on each warehouse. The security team reviews this report to ensure that only the regional managers have access. This weekly report summarizing the state of warehouse grants ensuring that the organization meets regulatory requirements.
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By automating the warehouse grant audit process, Company significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized data access.
