If an attacker or incompetence could take out Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly that would impact an awful lot of the internet without ever going near a hosting provider. I wonder how many organisations have a threat model that includes the supply chain of their service providers?…:
[…] However, Madeline Carr, professor of global politics and cyber security at University College London, said the disruption showed how reliant major websites are on a handful of overseas cloud-based providers.
While there is no current evidence to suggest the Fastly disruption was a cyber attack, Prof Carr said the “underlying infrastructure” of the internet was highly vulnerable to those seeking to cause harm.
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