Technology Magazine August 2025 | Page 107

DATA & DATA ANALYTICS
How, then, can you enable AI access to enterprise data without compromising security? Snowflake’ s solution builds on existing permission systems rather than creating parallel security infrastructure.
“ Snowflake’ s had really good governance for years. Now, we’ re just going to put agents right on top of that, so you don’ t have to do any extra work,” Jeff explains.
The approach means AI agents automatically respect existing data policies.“ I should not be able to see data for other employees at Snowflake. I don’ t work in HR. I shouldn’ t be able to see what the signing offer was for XYZ employees,” Jeff says.“ Your agent just knows:

“ AI is a very profound revolution which is very connected with Snowflake’ s DNA”

BENOIT DAGEVILLE CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF PRODUCTS, SNOWFLAKE
‘ Okay, I know who Jeff is, I know what we do with our HR data. When Jeff’ s talking to the agent, I’ m not going to show Jeff the data that he doesn’ t have access to.’” technologymagazine. com 107