When the internet fails, do your profits fail along with it? Does your security still work? Another day, another "internet outage." We all know the drill: A key provider fails, and a swath of the web goes dark because of it. It feels like the internet is broken, but what’s actually busted is one single vendor that many other businesses depend on. But wait. As IT experts, we learned early that you must avoid single points of failure. So, why does it seem as if so many businesses rely on a single vendor of internet infrastructure services? The answer is both simple and complex: Resilience is expensive. True multicloud and multi-vendor strategies are complex operational challenges. For many businesses, the cost of building redundant, fail-safe systems, even on the level of multivendor failover, is deemed higher than the cost of occasional downtime. Risks involved in internet outages However, there are not-so-obvious risks involved in outages that go beyond temporary business interruptions.…