Cabinet Office launches Be Ready cloud identity outage plan

thesaml.substack.com17 min read

The author argues that organizations have dangerously neglected business continuity planning for their cloud-based identity providers, treating single-vendor SaaS authentication as a virtual single point of failure. Because an identity outage can cause a complete business shutdown, the article outlines a three-layer resilience strategy covering foundations, backups, and secondary architectures, alongside regular testing and tabletop exercises. Open article →