Snowflake Completes Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Protected B Assessment, Empowering Canada’s Public Sector to Securely Mobilize Data

Toronto, Ont. – August 19, 2025 – Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, today announced it has completed the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) Protected B Assessment and meets the CCCS Medium Cloud Security profile requirements for deployments in both the AWS Canada (Central) and Microsoft Azure Canada (Central) regions.  

With the completion of this assessment, government departments, partners and highly regulated industries can accelerate the development of data-driven applications and trusted AI on Snowflake’s secure and compliant data platform. Snowflake’s Protected B assessment enables these organizations to protect sensitive data and allows for secure collaboration while maintaining robust governance and security controls.  

“Across Canada’s public sector, there is a clear focus on increasing operational efficiency, strengthening national cybersecurity, and advancing innovation. Data is at the heart of delivering on these priorities, with AI as the powerful enabler,” said Shannon Katschilo, Country Manager, Snowflake Canada. “Achieving the Protected B assessment reaffirms Snowflake's commitment to high security standards, furthering the AI Data Cloud’s position as the trusted partner for both public and private sector clients.” 

The Canadian government's digital strategies consistently emphasize the importance of leveraging data as a foundational asset and adopting a cloud-first approach. Snowflake's architecture provides a single and unified data platform with built-in security and governance, enabling government departments to streamline operations by breaking down data silos, and ultimately empowering them to securely accelerate their AI journey. 

Protected B is a key requirement for managing the sensitive personal and operational data required to deliver core government programs and services. By completing the assessment, departments can confidently modernize their infrastructure and work with sensitive data to support mission critical priorities. Example use cases include, but are not limited to: 

• Enhance National Security and Public Safety: Enable secure, governed collaboration  across departments, agencies, allies and industry partners to improve intelligence analysis and threat detection, cyber defense, emergency and climate disaster response, supply chain management, readiness and response. 

• Improve Citizen Services and Experience: Unify disparate data sets into a comprehensive view of the citizen to improve program integrity and deliver modern, personalized services such as automated application processing, AI-powered client support, fraud detection and proactive service experiences.

• Drive Evidence-Based Policy and Decision-Making: Empower policymakers with real-time data and AI-driven forecasting to strengthen public health, climate and environmental modeling, economic forecasting, housing policy analysis and social program effectiveness. 

• Optimize Internal Government Relations: Break down data silos between operational systems to automate workflows and reduce costs through procurement and spending analysis, predictive maintenance, cloud cost optimization and streamlined manual processes to empower personnel to focus on higher-value tasks.

With Snowflake’s completed CCCS Assessment for Protected B, government departments are able to:

• Protect Sensitive Data: Store, access, and act on their most sensitive data, knowing it’s protected by the highest levels of governance and security standards for cloud products.

• Enable Secure Collaboration: Break down data silos by securely sharing live, governed data across departments and with partners without complex integrations or data duplication, enabling the secure collaboration required for modern, effective government service delivery.

• Build a Foundation for Data Innovation and AI: Accelerate the development of data-driven applications and trusted AI on a secure and compliant data platform.

• Drive Government Productivity & Efficiency: Provide a single, unified platform that reduces the cost and complexity of having fragmented data across multiple cloud and on-premise systems, allowing departments to reallocate critical resources from maintenance to core programs and services for Canadians.

• Adopt a Cloud first Strategy: Snowflake's unified, as-a-service platform directly supports the cloud-first mandates by providing scalable infrastructure that accelerates modernization and simplifies multi-cloud adoption. Snowflake delivers a single, identical software platform that runs on top of AWS and Azure, providing a uniform user experience, governance model, and feature set regardless of the underlying cloud.

Snowflake’s commitment to innovation in Canada is anchored by its Toronto-based Engineering hub, one of five globally, which serves as the Canadian headquarters and is focused on the specialized needs of the public sector. 

Learn More:

• Read more about the announcement in this blog post.
• Learn how the Canadian government can achieve a secure data exchange to deliver services efficiently and securely for its users and citizens in this solutions brief.
• Connect with the Snowflake Canada Public Sector team to schedule a briefing.