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Explore comprehensive attack and defense strategies for Snowflake data platforms in this 26-minute conference talk from fwd:cloudsec Europe 2025. Learn about the security implications of data warehouses and data lakes, with specific focus on Snowflake as a leading SaaS data platform used by Fortune 500 companies. Discover various tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that attackers could use to compromise Snowflake instances, including detailed demonstrations of attack vectors targeting these critical data repositories. Gain insights into effective mitigations and detection strategies to harden and monitor Snowflake deployments across production environments. Understand the most likely attack scenarios against Snowflake and how security professionals can design effective security exercises. Master relevant security controls for hardening and detecting threats, along with available telemetry and log sources for detection engineering and monitoring. Get introduced to a new open-source tool designed to help defenders simulate discussed TTPs against their Snowflake instances to generate telemetry and validate detection capabilities. Presented by James Henderson, a UK-based cybersecurity consultant specializing in digital systems security research and development.
