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Emergency Procedures

Critical procedures for handling platform emergencies.

Emergency Types​

System Emergencies​

  • Complete outages
  • Data breaches
  • Critical bugs
  • Performance collapse

Business Emergencies​

  • Payment failures
  • Mass cancellations
  • PR crises
  • Legal issues

Outage Response​

Immediate Actions​

  1. Assess severity
  2. Activate incident team
  3. Enable maintenance mode
  4. Notify stakeholders

Communication Plan​

  • Status page updates
  • User notifications
  • Internal alerts
  • Vendor coordination

Resolution Steps​

  1. Identify root cause
  2. Implement fix
  3. Verify resolution
  4. Document incident

Security Incidents​

Breach Response​

  1. Contain the breach
  2. Assess damage
  3. Notify authorities
  4. Communicate with users

Security Protocols​

  • Isolate affected systems
  • Preserve evidence
  • Reset credentials
  • Audit access logs

Data Recovery​

Recovery Procedures​

  • Backup restoration
  • Data validation
  • Integrity checks
  • Service restoration

Recovery Priorities​

  1. Authentication services
  2. Core platform functions
  3. Payment processing
  4. Supporting features

Payment Issues​

Payment Failures​

  • Identify scope
  • Contact payment provider
  • Implement workarounds
  • Process manual payments

Refund Procedures​

  • Bulk refund processing
  • Credit issuance
  • Communication templates
  • Reconciliation

Emergency Contacts​

Internal Contacts​

  • On-call engineers
  • Executive team
  • Legal counsel
  • PR team

External Contacts​

  • Hosting provider
  • Payment processors
  • Security consultants
  • Legal advisors

Post-Incident​

Review Process​

  • Incident timeline
  • Root cause analysis
  • Lessons learned
  • Process improvements

Documentation​

  • Incident report
  • Action items
  • Prevention measures
  • Training needs