CIOs Eye SaaS Backup Plans Post-Crowdstrike
CIO, Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
More comprehensive vendor risk management practices and 'backup as a service' are two ways IT leaders are looking to better protect against SaaS incidents impacting their business.
If the CrowdStrike outage underscored anything for CIOs, it's that modern enterprises are dependent on a growing number of interconnected systems, any one of which can cripple business operations beyond CIOs' control.
As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on.