“Today’s disruption underscores something many of us in cybersecurity and tech have long warned about – as the Internet has grown more complex, a handful of infrastructure providers end up holding unexpectedly large power over its functioning. Cloudflare sits at the heart of that, providing CDN, proxying, routing, DNS and caching so that websites can stay fast, secure and resilient under load.
“When a provider like this fails, whether due to internal error, configuration change or external attack, the ripple effects hit far more than just a few sites. What feels like one outage to a user is actually a systemic failure affecting traffic flows across many unrelated organisations.
“For businesses, today is a wake‑up call. Relying entirely on a single provider for critical infrastructure is a fragile strategy. Companies should be thinking now about redundancies – multi‑CDN configurations, fallback hosting or hybrid cloud setups – so one failure doesn’t take everything down.”
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