Security Operations in an AWS Environment
Grammarly’s AI-powered writing assistant helps 30 million people write more clearly and effectively every day—and the security of all our users’ data, along with the reliability of our services, are our highest priorities. We use Amazon Web Services (AWS), the industry-leading secure cloud platform, to host our server-side infrastructure. Security is a shared responsibility : AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud, while Grammarly is responsible for security in the cloud—in other words, the secure configuration and management of our services, applications, and data that live in AWS. Security operations, or SecOps, covers the following areas: 1 Identification : Understanding our infrastructure, tooling, and risk vectors; for example, to protect user data, we first need to identify how the data is transferred, stored, and processed. 2 Protection : Applying the right controls and configurations to sh...