Eric Woroshow

While strong authentication is essential for accessing Snowflake resources, implementing it across all users and services can be complex. This session will detail real-world customer transitions from traditional methods (passwords, keys) to robust, modern authentication solutions like Workload Identity Federation (secretless authentication). We will explore effective rollout strategies and migration procedures, enabling you to learn the latest techniques for modernizing authentication without disrupting critical workloads.

Snowflake will block single-factor password sign-ins starting in November 2025. To make this easy, we’ve added new identity and access capabilities such as support for new MFA methods – including passkey and authenticator apps – native support for CSP workload identity, programmatic access tokens (PAT), and many more. We are also introducing a range of identity products that will help with collaboration following the least-privileged principle, including restricted caller’s right and user-based access models. Join us to see how these new products come together and how you can improve your authentication, authorization and access approach with them.