Your redundant architecture has a blind spot the size of a continent. While you’ve eliminated every Single Point of Failure, your vendor ecosystem may be balanced on a single jurisdictional chokepoint, one sanctions package away from going dark. We call this the New Dutch Disease: just as a booming gas sector hollows out the rest of an economy, the dominance of foreign tech quietly erodes home-grown solutions and self-hosting capacity. The result is a systemic risk so pervasive it became invisible, hiding in plain sight across every procurement decision, every cloud contract, and every SaaS renewal: a Single Country of Failure (SCOF). We introduce SCOF as a procurement metric, stress-test it across various industries, and leave you with a practical toolkit to account for jurisdictional risk.
