Managing Governance in Snowflake¶

These topics summarize the governance features in Snowflake.

These topics are intended primarily for administrators (i.e. users with the ACCOUNTADMIN, SYSADMIN, or SECURITYADMIN roles).

Summary of Governance Features

List of all governance features.
Column-level Security

Allows the application of a masking policy to a column within a table or view.
Row Access Policies

Allows the application of a row access policy to a table or view to determine which rows are visible in the query result.
Object Tagging

Allows the tracking of sensitive data for compliance, discovery, protection, and resource usage.
Tag-based Masking Policies

Allows protecting column data by assigning a masking policy to a tag and then setting the tag on a database object or the Snowflake account.
Data Classification

Allows categorizing potentially personal and/or sensitive data to support compliance and privacy regulations.
Access History

Allows the auditing of the user access history through the Account Usage ACCESS_HISTORY View.
Object Dependencies

Allows the auditing of how one object references another object by its metadata (e.g. creating a view depends on a table name and column names) through the Account Usage OBJECT_DEPENDENCIES view.