COVID-19 Business Continuity Plan: Workstation in a Briefcase
High-level benefits and what’s included for covered Team members.
Accessibility:
- Team members issued a D4 Owned Lenovo ThinkPad Laptop (or equivalent), USB Headset and External Mouse in a Laptop case to permanently leave at home while employed.
- Team members eligible for a home internet subsidy for qualifying home broadband plans.
- Team members work applications are mirrored on Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktops for remote access without providing access to the underlying data.
- Team members have Microsoft Teams calling (VOIP) enabled with access to their office phone (the same DID is added to D4 team members local cell phone via MS Teams application).
- Team members have all the same tools available to them to perform their daily tasks.
- WIFI is readily available in many public locations as well as in individual homes. Internet Access is virtually everywhere.
Safety and Security:
- Cloud services are available from everywhere but only to those authorized to access them.
- All D4 Servers reside in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Laptop Remotely Managed and Secured by Windows 10 Enterprise and Microsoft Intune.
- Laptop access controlled with Azure Active Directory, Multifactor Authentication and Conditional Access policy enforcement.
- Laptop hard-drive is encrypted, able to be wiped remotely and USB file access is disabled.
- Dimension4 and Client company’s data is never on team members local device as access is through a Microsoft Azure instance of Windows 10 Virtual Desktop.
- Local devices cannot infect your network with a virus when in the field as they are working off a US Virtual Desktop.
- Local device performance is fast and reliable.
Redundancy:
- Team member remote operating capability provides location diversity in the event of a local event.
- D4 provides the ability for users to work from home in the event of a disaster or quarantine.
- D4 has Geo-diversity through agreements for alternative office space should it be required.
