Snowflake Achieves Protected B Milestone, Unlocking Secure AI Data Innovation for Canada’s Public Sector

Toronto, ON – August 19, 2025 – Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, has reached a significant milestone in its Canadian journey: the completion of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) Protected B Assessment. Meeting the CCCS Medium Cloud Security profile requirements across both the AWS Canada (Central) and Microsoft Azure Canada (Central) regions, Snowflake now empowers Canadian government departments, partners, and highly regulated industries to securely unlock the potential of their data.

The assessment is more than a certification—it’s a gateway for Canada’s public sector to accelerate data-driven initiatives and trusted AI applications on a fully secure, compliant platform. For organizations that manage sensitive information, Snowflake’s Protected B status ensures robust governance and security while enabling seamless collaboration, all without the traditional complications of duplicating data or creating complex integrations.

“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.”

Canada’s federal digital strategies consistently highlight data as a core asset for modern governance. By providing a single, unified platform with embedded security and governance, Snowflake helps departments break down silos, streamline operations, and advance their AI and data-driven strategies with confidence.

Protected B is crucial for managing sensitive personal and operational data that underpin Canada’s essential programs and services. With this certification, government departments can modernize infrastructure and handle sensitive datasets to support mission-critical priorities such as:

  • National Security and Public Safety: Securely collaborate across departments, agencies, allied partners, and industry to enhance intelligence analysis, threat detection, cyber defense, disaster response, supply chain management, and operational readiness.
  • Citizen Services and Experience: Consolidate disparate datasets to improve service integrity and deliver personalized experiences, including AI-powered client support, automated processing, fraud detection, and proactive citizen engagement.
  • Evidence-Based Policy and Decision-Making: Provide policymakers with real-time insights and AI-driven forecasting to strengthen public health, climate and environmental modeling, economic policy analysis, housing strategies, and social program effectiveness.
  • Internal Government Optimization: Break operational silos, automate workflows, reduce procurement and maintenance costs, optimize cloud usage, and free personnel to focus on higher-value tasks.

The CCCS Protected B achievement equips government departments to:

  • Protect Sensitive Data: Store and act on highly confidential datasets with assurance of rigorous governance and security standards.
  • Enable Secure Collaboration: Share live, governed data internally and externally without duplications or integration hurdles.
  • Fuel AI and Data Innovation: Rapidly develop data-driven applications and trusted AI capabilities on a compliant platform.
  • Boost Government Productivity: Reduce complexity and cost from fragmented cloud and on-premise systems, redirecting resources toward core services for Canadians.
  • Advance Cloud-First Strategies: Utilize a unified, as-a-service platform across AWS and Azure that simplifies multi-cloud adoption while maintaining consistent user experience and governance.

Snowflake’s Toronto-based Engineering hub, one of five globally, anchors its commitment to Canada. Focused on the unique needs of the public sector, the hub is central to the company’s innovation and expansion strategy in the country.

With the CCCS Protected B certification, Snowflake solidifies its position as the trusted AI Data Cloud for government, helping Canadian organizations harness data securely, efficiently, and at scale.



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