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Modern supply chains are a complex web of interconnected, intertwined digital ecosystems, each supporting the other. Look around you, and everything from how your workstations perform to how your data is being managed consists of several different suppliers and vendors, beyond what might be evident to you on first glance.
You may have bought your web domain from an American company, but your hosting servers are in Europe. You probably bought your cloud infrastructure from AWS or Google, but your data is being stored in a remote village in Norway.
Beyond what is visible lies a plethora of vendors and suppliers that