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Inside Figma: getting out of the (secure) shell
Last year, the Figma security team built a simple solution for zero-trust shell access on AWS. To do this, they leveraged AWS SSO and Systems Manager, an umbrella of services that provide monitoring and remote administration capabilities over various AWS resources. In this post, Security Engineer Hongyi Hu explains how the team designed the system and shares some tips to help other teams secure Systems Manager and protect their most sensitive data.
Our approach to security at speed
On the Figma security team, our goal is to help Figmates ship new products and features as securely as possible—all without slowing them down. We wanted to share our operating model, which prioritizes transparency, decentralized and reusable solutions, and earning trust over mandating processes. Last year, the FigJam team built .
How we use data | Figma Blog
Building world-class design and collaboration tools means understanding how our products are used. Knowing how people use Figma is a critical process for making design accessible to everyone, and it requires us to carefully collect and analyze different types of user data. It’s a big responsibility to be entrusted with this data, so we want to be sure our customers know what we use it for and why.
How Figma’s data science and user research teams weave together insights that count
This illustration shows warp and weft in weaving (Alfred Barlow, Ryj, PKM). In weaving, you thread crosswise yarns, known as weft, over and under lengthwise yarns, known as warp, to create whole cloth. At Figma, Data Scientist Caitlin Hudon and Researcher Jennifer Sanders use warp and weft as an apt metaphor for cross-functional insights.
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