When Critical Software Becomes a Supply Chain Risk

About this episode

This episode discusses the risks associated with critical software and cloud services that businesses rely on.

Send me a message What happens when the software your business depends on simply disappears? In this episode of Resilient Supply Chain, I’m joined by Wayne Scott, GRC Solutions Lead at Escode, the world’s largest source code and cloud escrow provider. We talk about a risk hiding in plain sight: critical software, SaaS platforms, and cloud services that businesses depend on every day, but may not be able to keep running if a supplier fails. You’ll hear how supplier risk is shifting from a proc...

People in this episode

Host: Tom Raftery

Guest: Wayne Scott

Topics covered

• software risk
• supply chain
• SaaS platforms
• cloud services
• supplier failure

Keywords

• supply chain risk
• critical software
• cloud escrow
• SaaS
• supplier risk

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Escode

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