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Risk management

This presentation discusses the different types of risks that registries face, including administrative, financial, technical, and physical risks. It provides strategies to mitigate these risks, such as diversifying location and infrastructure, obtaining proper insurance coverage, running periodical checks, and learning from best practices. The importance of collaborating with other registries to develop contingency plans is also emphasized. Presented by Sebastian Bellagamba at the CABASE wwTLD meeting in Mar Del Plata on 3rd April 2005.

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Risk management

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  1. Risk management Sebastian Bellagamba CABASE wwTLD meeting Mar Del Plata, 3 March 2005

  2. Registry’s risk • Administrative • Financial • Technical • Physical Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  3. Administrative risks • Contracts with registrars or registrants • Transfer procedures • Fake signatures • Registration procedures • … Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  4. Financial risks • Overdue invoices • Registrars bankruptcy • Registry bankruptcy • … Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  5. Technical risks • Data corruption • Loss of network connectivity • Intrusion • Disk failure • Server failures • Unreachable main website • … Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  6. Physical risks • Fire • Earthquake • Bomb • Fiber cut • Power failure • … Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  7. Consequences on • Registry’s activities • Registrar • Registrant • Local Internet community Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  8. Strategies • Diversify location and infrastructures • Look for a proper insurance cover • Run periodical checks on all the activities • Learn from best practices • … Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  9. Diversify location and infrastructures • Maintain multiple locations • Replicate data • Keep qualified staff at each location • Make sure that each location mitigates the primary risk at the other • Back up power supply • … Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  10. Insurance cover • Insurance policies are not sufficient to cover all possible areas of weakness • There could be problems related to the uncertainty of many activities • They are only a part of a very well evaluated risk management process Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  11. Periodical checks • They can help you to auto-evaluate possible risks and threats • Preferably they should be conducted by an external panel of experts Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  12. Learn from best practices • The grass is greener on the other side of the fence • Share your fears and thoughts with other registries that might have already developed remedies and “contingency plans” Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

  13. Thanks for your attention Sebastian Bellagamba CABASE wwTLD meeting Mar Del Plata, 3 March 2005 Mar Del Plata, wwTLD meeting, 3 April 2005

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