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essensys Platform- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

This is a description of how our Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery process's work on the essensys Platform

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Written by Stuart Stapley
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Compliance

The essensys Platform complies with several key regulatory and industry standards:

ISO Standards

  • ISO 27001 – We are consistent with ISO 27001 and are working towards full certification for our information security management system (ISMS)

  • ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 - Our certification efforts are aligned to these cloud security standards

  • ISO 9001 – We maintain consistency with this quality management standard

SOC Reports

  • SOC 1 (SSAE 18 / ISAE 3402), SOC 2, and SOC 3 audits - Our information security control environment undergoes independent evaluation through these Service Organization Control reports

Infrastructure Security

  • essensys Platform uses enterprise-grade infrastructure provided by AWS (Amazon Web Services), which is SSAE16, ISO27001, and PCI-DSS accredited, ensuring comprehensive physical, network, data, and user security

Additional Compliance

  • GDPR compliance for data protection

  • Regular security assessments by internal personnel and third parties, including infrastructure vulnerability and application security assessments on at least an annual basis

Hosting

essensys Platform use enterprise-grade infrastructure and solutions provided by AWS (Amazon Web Services). The solution uses Regional based Multi Availability Zones ensuring High Availability in 3 different regions around the World. AWS is SSAE16, ISO27001 and PCI-DSS accredited, ensuring physical, network, data, and user security.

Backup Arrangements

essensys Platform makes use of 2 database engine types named RDS PostgreSQL and DynamoDB

  • Frequency: Full backups are taken daily, RDS PostgreSQL log backups are taken every 5 minutes and DynamoDB log backups are taken every minute.

  • Method: Backups are automated and fully managed by AWS.

  • Retention Period: The backup and log retention period is 35 days, after which the backups are discarded.

  • Storage Location: The backups are encrypted and stored in AWS S3, to which only a limited number of people have access.

Disaster Recovery Capability

  • Failover testing is fully managed by AWS.

  • Our RTO (Recovery Time Objective) for RDS PostgreSQL is 5 minutes and DynamoDB is 30 minutes.

  • Our RPO (Recovery Point Objective) for RDS PostgreSQL is 5 minutes and DynamoDB is 1 minute.

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