What strategies can you use to avoid creating a single point of failure?
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CISO in Finance (non-banking)7 months ago
Vendor risk management and understanding your vendor is crucial. It's also important to understand where redundancies might be and ensure they are in place if you choose to go forward. For instance, if you're heavily dependent on Microsoft and if you're in the cloud, you need to consider the risks associated with that. However, if major vendors like Microsoft or AWS were to fail, it would likely indicate larger global issues. Therefore, it's important to do a risk assessment and decide whether you're willing to take that risk or not. Disaster recovery, vendor management, and other measures can help mitigate the risk, but at the end of the day, you may have to accept it or walk away.Director of Information Security in Services (non-Government)7 months ago
Planning, backup, and disaster recovery are crucial. If the vendor is cloud-based, it's important to consider whether it's one of the major players like Microsoft, AWS, or Google. If these major players go down, it could have significant impacts on your business operations. Therefore, it's important to have a backup plan in case of such eventualities. This could be especially challenging if you're relying on a single vendor for multiple services. Having dual vendors for redundancy might not be feasible for many organizations due to cost considerations. Therefore, it's a tough task to completely plan for avoiding a single point of failure.
Director of IT in Healthcare and Biotech7 months ago
The key strategy to avoid creating a single point of failure is understanding your requirements and what's driving them. This understanding helps in identifying potential points of failure. For instance, the viability of the company itself could be a potential point of failure. Therefore, it's crucial to effectively define your requirements, evaluate against them, and measure success. If you believe that an organization's suite of tools could be a single point of failure and you don't have ways to mitigate against that, you should consider not consolidating.