The SolarWinds breach was the latest event to raise doubts for some about IT’s reliance on third party partners.
Yet in a world where AWS, Azure and others deliver infrastructure more secure than any smaller organization could afford on their own, the real lessons here are for software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors that run on top of these platforms.
Perhaps the economies of cloud scale can actually disrupt the economies of conglomeration that may have contributed to the SolarWinds breach – but we’ll need smaller, focused SaaS partners to do it.
