Auth Outages & Breaches: Is Your Provider a Single Point of Failure?

Evaluating identity infrastructure requires addressing critical questions about the implications of multi-tenant outages, total costs, data accessibility, and compliance with changing regulations. The article highlights the risks associated with shared Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) identity providers, which often place customer data on shared architectures, potentially leading to cascading failures across applications due to a single provider error. This "blast radius" problem can severely impact businesses, particularly in high-stakes industries like finance and healthcare, where authentication failures can have significant operational and regulatory consequences. The text advocates for isolated deployments as a preferable alternative, ensuring that security and uptime are determined by one's own architectural decisions rather than a vendor's shared infrastructure. Isolated deployments offer predictable pricing, compliance without unexpected costs, and strategic flexibility, allowing businesses to adapt to evolving regulatory and business needs without being constrained by a vendor's architecture.

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