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Concentration Risk

Concentration risk is the risk of overreliance on a single vendor, technology provider, or geographic region across your vendor ecosystem. When multiple critical operations depend on one underlying provider, such as a single cloud platform or one payment processor, any disruption to that provider creates a single point of failure with broad organizational impact.