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One Vendor Outage Can Freeze the Business
Most companies say they care about resilience while depending on vendors they couldn’t survive without for 72 hours.
In this episode, we unpack why third-party risk is no longer just a procurement, security, or compliance issue.
Cloud concentration, SaaS consolidation, shared identity layers, and external AI services mean one vendor outage can disrupt payroll, customer support, finance, logistics, and internal access at the same time.
We cover a simple way to start: map your top vendors by business criticality, trace which processes fail if they go down, identify concentration risk, and build…
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