# [MED] 7 AppSec tips from Snowflake’s Director of Product Security

**Source:** Snyk
**Published:** 2023-08-31
**Article:** https://snyk.io/blog/7-appsec-tips-snowflake/

## Threat Profile

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Written by Brian Piper 
August 31, 2023
0 mins read At this year’s AWS re:Invent, Mic McCully, Field CTO at Snyk, spoke with Jacob Salassi, Director of Product Security at Snowflake. They discussed what it looked like for Snowflake to overcome various security challenges with the right combination of processes, company culture shifts, and tool partners (including Snyk!). Read on to learn about the practices Jacob and his team established to create a successful applicati…

## Indicators of Compromise (high-fidelity only)

- _No high-fidelity IOCs in the RSS summary._ If the source publishes a technical write-up with defanged IOCs in the body, those would be picked up automatically on the next pipeline run.

## MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

- _Narrative-keyword inference returned no technique mappings; review article for ATT&CK relevance manually._

## Kill chain phases observed

_(none detected from narrative keywords)_

## Recommended hunts

_No actionable hunts can be derived from the RSS summary alone. The article may still warrant manual review — open the source link for actor attribution, IOCs in the body, and TTP detail._


## Why this matters

Severity classified as **MED** based on: 0 use case(s) fired, 0 technique(s) inferred. Read the full article for actor attribution, tooling details, and any defanged IOCs in the body that aren't visible in the RSS summary.