EP. 11 Cloud & Infrastructure

The Cloudflare outage and business continuity

20 min ·Published 24 November 2025

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About this episode

Angel and Krasimir break down the recent global Cloudflare outage: why it was a supply chain and single point-of-failure problem rather than a cyber attack, and what it means for organisations that rely on hyperscalers for DDoS protection, CDN, and critical services.

Using the incident as a case study, they discuss how one oversized, auto-generated configuration file broke traffic routing for a huge portion of the internet, and draw practical lessons on third-party risk, business continuity planning, and vendor due diligence.

Episode chapters

  1. 00:00
    Introduction
  2. 00:17
    Clarifying the incident: not a cyber attack
  3. 01:03
    The concept of supply chain risk
  4. 02:39
    The technical root cause: a configuration bottleneck
  5. 06:13
    Executive risk strategy and auxiliary services
  6. 10:45
    The debate on vendor liability
  7. 16:17
    Impact on media and information distribution

Topics covered

  • #SupplyChainRisk
  • #BusinessContinuity
  • #ThirdPartyRisk
  • #Resilience
  • #Cloudflare
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