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Veza for Databricks

Modern Identity Security Across Workspace-Level and Unity Catalog Access Models

Databricks powers modern data ecosystems—from AI/ML pipelines to enterprise-scale analytics. As organizations adopt Unity Catalog as the new standard for access control, legacy workspace-level permissions often persist, creating complexity and risk. Over-permissioned service principals, siloed workspace configurations, and opaque access paths introduce unnecessary exposure.

Veza supports both Unity Catalog and legacy workspace-level permission models to deliver fine-grained visibility into who has access to what, and why. By unifying access data across Catalog, workspace, and account layers, Veza enables identity and security teams to enforce least privilege, reduce audit overhead, and ensure compliance, regardless of deployment complexity or cloud provider.

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Access Challenges in Databricks

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01

Excessive Admin & Service Principal Access

Privileged access to clusters, notebooks, and data Catalogs often remains in place long after it’s needed.

02

Siloed Access Management 
Across Workspaces

In non-Unity Catalog configurations, each workspace enforces permissions independently, making organization-wide access reviews nearly impossible.

03

Limited Oversight of Non-Human Identities

Service principals and automation accounts often go unmanaged, despite controlling sensitive pipelines and data lake access.

04

Cloud-Specific, Manual Compliance Workflows

Databricks-native tools lack centralized visibility across cloud regions and tenants, slowing down audit prep and increasing risk.

05

Layered, Hard-to-Audit Unity Catalog Permissions

Entitlements span users, groups, schemas, Catalogs, and metastores—creating tangled access paths that native tools struggle to surface.

Access Challenges in Databricks

How Veza Helps

Veza integrates directly with both Unity Catalog–enabled and legacy workspace-level Databricks configurations to:

Key FEATURES
  • Discover user → group → service principal → resource access relationships
  • Visualize access across Catalogs, clusters, notebooks, schemas, and more with Veza’s Access Graph
  • Identify excessive group assignments, admin overreach, and service principal sprawl
  • Detect stale, inactive, or unused access, both human and machine
  • Track changes to permissions and configurations in near real-time
  • Simplify access reviews, audit readiness, and compliance workflows

Result: Unified, identity-centric governance across your Databricks estate—whether you’re fully migrated to Unity Catalog or still managing legacy access paths.

Key benefits
  • Unified Visibility: Gain single-pane-of-glass visibility into users, groups, service principals, and resource entitlements across all workspaces and federated Unity Catalog layers.
  • Access Risk Detection: Surface dormant access, misconfigured privileges, and over-extended entitlements—whether for humans or automation identities.
  • Fine-Grained Audit Trails: Trace true access paths and generate export-ready reports aligned to SOX, GDPR, PCI DSS, and internal controls.
  • Multi-Cloud Compliance Readiness: Support consistent, automated access reviews across AWS, Azure, and GCP-hosted Databricks deployments.

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Technical Overview

Supported Entities

Users & Groups

Source (e.g., SCIM, Identity Federation), membership, and access to Catalogs, schemas, and tables

Service Principals

Usage scope, active status, and access privileges across data and compute

Metastores

Catalog grouping and cross-
workspace visibility

Workspace Admins

Centralized vs. workspace-specific permissions across environments

Tables & Views

Read/write privileges, group entitlements, and access lineage

Catalogs & Schemas

Ownership, ACLs, and usage frequency

Clusters

Ownership, admin access, and usage status

Notebooks

Shared access, edit privileges, and visibility into collaboration patterns

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