In today’s cloud-driven world, many organisations unknowingly place all their digital resilience in the hands of a single provider. In this guest article, Reuben Sant from iSupport explores the hidden risks of vendor lock-in, why outages at your provider can instantly become outages for you, and what modern engineering in 2025 should look like — vendor-neutral foundations, portable architectures, and systems designed to route around failure.

Cyber threats today are complex, persistent, and capable of disrupting operations across any sector. From targeted attacks to ransomware...