Four-Week Plan Helps Organizations Reduce Vendor Concentration Risk

Summary

Skycloak founder Guilliano Molaire explains how organizations can map hidden dependencies across vendors and reduce concentration risk through contract protections and architecture changes.

Key points

• Multiple vendors may rely on the same underlying cloud, identity, DNS, email, payment, or AI providers.
• An outage at a shared provider can disrupt more of an organization than its vendor contracts suggest.
• A four-step mapping exercise uses a fictional 200-person company to identify about five critical dependencies.
• The guidance covers warning signs, vendor questions, exit assistance, data portability, and service-level agreements.
• Suggested resilience measures include standard protocols, data-export drills, and backup identity paths.

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