Cloud-based data warehouses such as Snowflake have become a cornerstone of corporate data strategy. To meet the need to secure the data used by business teams, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and security managers are looking for high-performance encryption solutions to protect data without disrupting access or slowing down analysis and decision-making processes. Cosmian has developed a Snowflake connector to meet this challenge, combining the power of Snowflake’s data management with the advanced security of Cosmian’s client-side encryption.

This comprehensive solution encrypts massively data even before it reaches the Snowflake warehouse, ensuring total confidentiality. With Cosmian, your data remains protected, while preserving user experience and application fluidity, and offering integrated security without compromising on performance. For companies seeking to maximize security in their cloud data warehouses, this connection between Cosmian and Snowflake represents a major step towards robust, secure data infrastructures.

Source-based encryption for optimum security in Snowflake

The Snowflake solution is ideal for data management and analysis, but the need for confidentiality demands advanced data security. Thanks to the Cosmian kms massive on-the-fly encryption solution, data is encrypted even before it enters the Snowflake ecosystem, directly from the data source:

• Massive on-the-fly client-side encryption: Cosmian kms enable to encrypt 5 million messages in maximum 5 seconds on a 10-core standard server.
• No plaintext data in Snowflake: Once data has been encrypted, it is stored and processed securely in Snowflake, ensuring that Snowflake never has access to plaintext information.
• Seamless encryption from the source: Before reaching Snowflake, a Cosmian plugin activates client-side encryption, meaning that data is protected from its point of origin and throughout its journey.

This solution is particularly valuable for companies handling sensitive data, such as in the financial, medical or technology sectors, where confidentiality is paramount.

Cosmian kms and the Snowflake Native App: a duo for invisible, high-performance protection

The security of your data with Snowflake and Cosmian is based on two key elements: the Cosmian kms key manager and the Snowflake Native App for Cosmian.

1. Cosmian kms: This key manager is deployed wherever the customer wishes (on-premise or in the cloud), offering total flexibility to manage data encryption/decryption.

2. Snowflake Native App: This native application acts as an intermediary agent, making calls to  Cosmian kms to initiate data encryption and decryption. The execution of these operations is completely transparent for both data sources and data consumers.

In other words, once Cosmian kms has been configured, users no longer have to worry about encrypting/decrypting data – everything is invisible.

Simple, secure deployment: client-side encryption in just a few steps

Implementing this encryption solution is quick and easy for customers, with no impact on Snowflake performance:

1. Installation of Cosmian kms: The customer acquires Cosmian kms and deploys it on his chosen infrastructure (on-premise or in the cloud).
2. Configuration and deployment of the Snowflake Native App for Cosmian: Contact us for more information

Once configured, Cosmian kms supports real-time, on-the-fly encryption and decryption, ensuring data protection, with performance of up to 5 million messages in less than 5 seconds on a standard 10-core server.

Ensure total confidentiality of your data in Snowflake: discover how Cosmian kms guarantees protection without compromising performance or user experience.

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