Blockchain Transaction Lifecycle Security Standard Audit Framework

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Ensure Delivery Capacity

Statement of Requirement

Deployers SHOULD ensure delivery infrastructure has sufficient redundancy to avoid delays due to single points of failure.

See it in the specification

Applicability

Purpose

Ensure that deployments are resilient to transient failures and single points of failure.

Audit Procedure

Verify the infrastructure deployment and resilience policies of the Deployer

Success Criteria

Infrastructure policy provides for resilience against transient failure

Best Practice

There is no single point of failure, the Deployer's entire infrastructure has redundant failover and robust failure detection.

Failure Criteria

Single points of failure exist that could be rectified without significant impact to the Deployer's existing operational constraints.

Justifiable Exceptions

This is a very useful feature. However, its absence is justifiable on the grounds of keeping code or interfaces simple. Justification for not meeting this requirement does not need to be explicit.

Key Evidence

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