# Getting Started

Immuta continually monitors your data environment to help answer questions about your most active data users, the most accessed data, and the events happening within your data environment. This understanding can help drive prioritization of where to place access control policies.

## Use cases

Below are two use cases to get started with Detect. They contain the basic Immuta configuration steps that you need to accomplish before using Immuta Secure. It is highly recommended that you follow the below use case, regardless of Detect support.

Currently, Immuta Detect only supports tag filtering and sensitivity with Snowflake. So you are presented with two paths to choose from:

* **If you use Snowflake**: [Monitor and secure sensitive data platform query activity](/2024.2/detect-your-activity/getting-started/overview.md). This will guide you through the basics of Immuta configuration and culminate with findings in Detect.
* **If don't use Snowflake**: [General Immuta configuration](/2024.2/detect-your-activity/getting-started/general-immuta-configuration.md). This will guide you through the required Immuta configurations in order to move on to Immuta Secure.


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