What happened
Cloudflare had a widespread outage that caused many websites and online services to return 500 Internal Server Errors.
Who is affected
Organizations that rely on Cloudflare for CDN, security services, or traffic routing experienced service disruption and downtime.
Why CISOs should care
The outage shows how dependent many businesses are on third party infrastructure. A single point of failure can interrupt operations and expose gaps in redundancy and incident response planning.
3 practical actions
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Review your dependency on external CDN and security providers and map all critical services that rely on them.
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Create failover and redundancy plans that reduce downtime if a major vendor has an outage.
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Update incident playbooks to include communication steps for widespread third party service failures.