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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)

Policy Owner: LucasJarvis (Hai) Luong

Effective Date: 01.03.2025s

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In the event of a loss of availability of a hosting service provider, the COO CIO/CTO will confer with the Principal Engineer Technical Lead to determine an appropriate response strategy.

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Key contacts shall be maintained on the on-call schedule and key contacts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pSbFid4SvulO4qpS9X38vRbSQikxBaJDpBcpYiJCovY/edit? usp=sharing 

Roles and Responsibilities


Role

Responsibility

Principal EngineerTechnical Lead

The Principal Engineer Technical Lead shall lead BC/DR efforts to mitigate losses and recover the corporate network and information systems.

Departmental Heads

Each department head The Technical Lead shall be responsible for communications with their departmental staff and any actions needed leading efforts to maintain continuity of their business functions. Departmental heads shall communicate regularly with executive staff and the Lead Engineer.Tekai services to customers during a disaster.


Managers

Managers shall be responsible for communicating with their direct reports and providing any needed assistance for staff to continue working from alternative locations.


COOCIO

The COOCIO, in conjunction with the CEO and CFO COO shall be responsible for any external and client communications regarding any disaster or business continuity actions that are relevant to customers and third parties.

Principal Engineer

The Principal Engineer, in conjunction with the COO, shall be responsible for leading efforts to maintain continuity of Tekai services to customers during a disaster.


COO

The COO shall be responsible for internal communications to employees as well as any action needed to maintain physical health and safety of the workforce. The COO shall work with the Lead Engineer to ensure continuity of physical security at the Tekai office.

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KEY BUSINESS PROCESS

CONTINUITY STRATEGY

Customer (Production) Service Delivery

Rely on service provider availability commitments and SLAs

IT Operations

Not dependent on HQ. Critical data is backed up to alternate locations (Github | Gitlab | Bitbucket).

Email

Utilize Gmail and its distributed nature, rely on Google's standard service level agreements.

Finance, Legal and HR

All systems are vendor-hosted SaaS applications.

Sales and Marketing

All systems are vendor-hosted SaaS applications.

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severe weather, regional power outage, earthquake) affecting the larger Turku Helsinki region.


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01.03.2025

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Lucas







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  1. Notify Customer Base that proactive monitoring is offline
  2. Normal operations continue

Disaster Event at HQ Turku & LuxembourgHelsinki

 CRM, Telephony, Video Conferencing/Screen Share & Corp Email unaffected  SUPPORT offline

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