Redundancy Policy

What this policy is

Specifies which systems and components must have redundancy, what level (N+1, N+2, geographic), and how redundancy is tested.

Why every organization needs one

Single-points-of-failure are the silent risk that surfaces during an outage. The policy makes designing them out a default, not an afterthought.

What a competent Redundancy Policy typically contains

• Purpose and scope
• Roles and responsibilities
• Definitions
• Redundancy standard per service tier
• Geographic-diversity requirement
• Failover-test cadence
• Capacity-on-failover margin
• Review cadence (typically annual) and version control
• Approval, sign-off and effective date

How iCompaas tracks this policy

The icompaas policy-doc producer manages this document through an 8-state lifecycle: draft → generated → internal_qa → customer_review → in_review → approved → signed (with rejected as a terminal side-state). The producer publishes a policy_doc_redundancy_policy_signed compliance finding once at least one document of this kind reaches the signed state for the account being assessed; the finding then rolls up into every compliance framework that references this policy (see the table below).

Compliance frameworks that reference this policy

The icompaas compliance controls library links every policy document to the controls in each framework that require, evidence, or otherwise rely on it. Below: every control across every framework in the iCompaas catalogue that names this policy as part of its evidence base. Each control links to its own dedicated page with auditor-view content + implementation guidance.

1 control across 1 framework reference this policy.

About this page

This article is part of the iCompaas Policy Documents library — one page per signed-document type the icompaas policy-doc producer tracks for customer accounts. The article is intentionally framework-agnostic: a customer signing a policy of this kind gets the same regulatory benefit across every framework that references it.