Podcast
Root Causes 75: Sectigo's COVID-19 Readiness


Hosted by
Tim Callan
Chief Compliance Officer
Jason Soroko
Fellow
Original broadcast date
March 18, 2020
As measures move into place throughout society to flatten the curve of COVID-19's spread, it is important to understand the potential effects of lock downs, school closures, and work-from-home mandates on the critical systems that keep our digital world running. Sectigo has conducted an internal audit of its business continuity and disaster recovery plans in light of the specifics of the ongoing pandemic, and we remain confident in our ongoing operation without material disruption through the present crisis. In this episode our hosts go over the results of Sectigo's COVID-19 readiness audit and what customers can expect in the months to come.
Podcast Transcript
Lightly edited for flow and brevity.
So, first, the high level is that we are confident that Sectigo’s operations are not going to be compromised in any material way because of this outbreak and the actions that are taking place as a result but let’s get into a few specifics.
First, we do have a globally distributed business and we are operating across four different countries with employees operating centers in all of those and we are able to run the entire operation from any of single one of those four national locations. So, if for some reason we were completely unable to use our offices in, let’s say the UK, we would still have three other offices to fall back on. So that’s point number 1.
We do, as I said, have business continuity and disaster recovery fully in place, plans fully in place and we are enabled for most to all of our employees to work remotely in the event that that’s what needs to happen. So, even if there is a true lockdown in one of our epicenter locations like the New Jersey area or the Ottawa area, we are able to send those employees home and those employees’ productivity can continue without any worries or any pause.
So, those are the main things that we were working on and we did think it was important to evaluate this for our own operations and we do feel like there is not presently any jeopardy to any of Sectigo’s operations.

