Positive Convexity Risk Mitigation:
Design and Implementation

Philosophy

Risk Mitigation in information technology encompasses various methods of ensuring security and durability of data, availability of services, resilience of systems, and recovery from failures. Most methods involve the creation of robust and resilient systems with redundancies and security against known common issues and failures. No responsible organization can afford to ignore these common practices and protections against known risks, and we implement these practices in all of our designs and implementations.

Despite any organization's best efforts to avoid known risks, experience has shown that failures and outages still occur and many times they are the result of "unknown unknowns" in the environment or system. How can we know the "unknown unknown" risks? We can't. What we can do is build systems and infrastructures that can isolate unknown and unexpected failures without spreading to other systems and causing cascading failures leading to major outages. We don't need to know the unknowable to provide mitigations for failures. We don't have to know the cause of a failure in advance to have a plan for the failure.

Positive Convexity specializes in designing dispersed, decoupled architectures where the failure of one element becomes a system stressor rather than a complete system failure. By spreading decoupled and dispersed systems across multiple vendors and a robust backup plan, an organization can mitigate the risk and the effects of localized failures and maintain operations at a level where they can benefit from major systemic crashes by being the last one standing.

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