Data Lineage and Trust Center

Snowflake Management, Governance & Collaboration

Emily Melhuish

Technical Curriculum Developer, Snowflake

The Visibility Problem

A compliance dashboard stops returning data: what changed upstream?
Without a dependency map, tracing the cause is manual and slow
A security audit asks who holds ACCOUNTADMIN and whether service accounts use MFA
Data lineage and the Trust Center make both problems traceable

What is Data Lineage?

data lineage

A map of object relationships in your Snowflake account

Reading the Lineage Graph in Snowflake

data lineage

Access History

A log a log of which objects were accessed, by which user, and at what time

SELECT user_name,
       query_id,
       query_start_time,
       direct_objects_accessed,
       base_objects_accessed
FROM SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.ACCESS_HISTORY
ORDER BY user_name, query_start_time DESC;

Helps answer questions like "who accessed the credit scores table in the last 30 days"

What is the Trust Center?

Built-in security monitoring hub

Scanner Packages and Findings

Checks organized into scanner packages

Three main scanners:

CIS Snowflake Benchmark: maps to Center for Internet Security standards
Snowflake Security Essentials: Snowflake's own baseline checks
Threat Intelligence: identifies risky users and suspicious activity patterns

Findings are ranked by severity - a configuration gap, not a breach

Security Essentials Scanners

Trust center scanner packages.png

Example: CIS Benchmarks

Screenshot 2026-05-17 at 7.13.14 pm.png

¹ https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/trust-center/overview#scanner-packages

Acting on Findings

Includes summary of violation and a recommended remediation
- Example: Moving all users to SSO
Doesn't fix things for you but gives you a clear and prioritized list

placeholder: Trust Center finding detail panel in Snowsight showing a high-severity finding recommending that users be migrated from password-only authentication to SSO, with a remediation description and link to documentation

Let's practice!

Snowflake Management, Governance & Collaboration