Cloud powers everything now. Revenue platforms, AI workloads, and day-to-day collaboration. That convenience concentrates risk.
One identity provider outage can freeze operations; a misconfigured bucket can expose sensitive data; a supplier incident can ripple across your stack.
The 2025 mandate: accept that “always on” requires “always ready.” Treat identity as the new perimeter, engineer for graceful failure, and hold third parties to the same bar you set internally.
The goal isn’t zero incide
