FAQ
Fourth-Party Risk

What is infrastructure concentration risk?

Infrastructure concentration risk occurs when multiple services or suppliers depend on the same hosting, cloud, network, DNS or other foundational infrastructure. The dependency may be invisible in procurement records because the organisation contracts with different providers. A failure or compromise in the shared infrastructure can still create correlated disruption. ThingsRecon maps observable hosting and relationship signals to help identify common dependencies and prioritise resilience measures. In practice, teams should record the supporting evidence, confirm ownership and business criticality, and connect the finding to an accountable workflow. This prevents a useful observation from becoming another isolated score or dashboard alert. The strongest implementation combines external intelligence with internal knowledge, supplier engagement and documented risk decisions, creating a view that remains useful as the digital ecosystem changes.