7Sigma Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy

As of June 2021.

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The goal of 7Sigma’s Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (“BC/DR”) planning is to ensure 7Sigma has the ability to rapidly adapt and respond to business disruptions, and safeguard people and assets, while maintaining continuous business operations.

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7Sigma achieves resiliency through four principal areas of focus: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management and Crisis Management. 7Sigma maintains our readiness by proactively assessing operational risks, establishing contingency plans, and administering incident response and crisis management training. 

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Under the 7Sigma BC/DR program, all critical business functions and locations are required to maintain and exercise alternate operation strategies. 7Sigma validates that each of its teams’ BC/DR strategies are effective. For critical business operations, we conduct internal audits of business continuity plans and moderate exercises to ensure the plan efficiently mitigates realistic disruptions. 

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7Sigma maintains a risk framework that accounts for the evaluation of our technology, applications, data, processes and overall organization to ensure our risk mitigation strategy operates at multiple levels with broad coverage.

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In the event of a business disruption, we have plans designed to allow us to continue operations of critical functions.  We accomplish this in part by:

• Using redundant processing capacity.

• Designing our technology and systems to support the recovery processes for critical business functions. 

• Using business and technology teams that are responsible for activating and managing the recovery process.

• Exercising our recovery procedures and testing those procedures on a regular basis.

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When it comes to disaster recovery, as part of our strategy, 7Sigma leverages rigorous business impact and risk analysis to identify applications/services that are critical to each of our products.  By building within the AWS environment, we benefit from all that AWS has to offer. Our applications/services are hosted in separate Availability Zones (AZ) using industry-standard practices to copy data across multiple AZs in real time.