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AS4 Settlement Incident Response Procedures

Date: 2026-01-19
Version: 1.0.0


1. Incident Classification

1.1 Severity Levels

  • CRITICAL: Service outage, data breach, security incident
  • HIGH: Partial service degradation, performance issues
  • MEDIUM: Non-critical errors, minor performance impact
  • LOW: Informational issues, minor bugs

1.2 Response Times

  • CRITICAL: 15 minutes
  • HIGH: 1 hour
  • MEDIUM: 4 hours
  • LOW: Next business day

2. Incident Response Process

2.1 Detection

  1. Monitor alerts and logs
  2. Receive incident report
  3. Classify severity
  4. Assign incident owner

2.2 Response

  1. Acknowledge incident
  2. Assess impact
  3. Notify stakeholders
  4. Begin investigation

2.3 Resolution

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

2.4 Post-Incident

  1. Post-mortem meeting
  2. Incident report
  3. Action items
  4. Process improvements

3. Common Incidents

3.1 Service Outage

Symptoms: All requests failing, service unavailable

Response:

  1. Check infrastructure health
  2. Verify database connectivity
  3. Check application logs
  4. Restart services if needed
  5. Escalate if unresolved

3.2 Message Processing Failure

Symptoms: Specific instructions failing

Response:

  1. Identify failed instruction
  2. Check error logs
  3. Verify member status
  4. Retry if appropriate
  5. Manual intervention if needed

3.3 Certificate Issues

Symptoms: TLS handshake failures, signature validation failures

Response:

  1. Verify certificate validity
  2. Check certificate expiration
  3. Update Member Directory if needed
  4. Notify affected members

4. Escalation

4.1 Escalation Path

  1. On-call engineer
  2. Engineering lead
  3. CTO
  4. Executive team

4.2 Escalation Triggers

  • CRITICAL incidents unresolved after 1 hour
  • Security incidents
  • Data breaches
  • Regulatory issues

5. Communication

5.1 Internal Communication

5.2 External Communication

  • Member notifications via email
  • Status page updates
  • Public communication if required

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