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Origina CIO Rowan O’Donoghue joined LBC News to explain how the Cloudflare outage triggered widespread service disruption — and why concentrated infrastructure creates cascading risks for organisations of every size.

Rowan O’Donoghue spoke with BBC Newsday about the Cloudflare outage, highlighting how incidents like this expose systemic dependency and why leaders must rethink resilience across their digital infrastructure.

Cloudflare’s disruption showed how one technical fault can send shockwaves across the digital economy. Origina’s Rowan O’Donoghue urges executives to confront systemic concentration risk and bolster resilience across essential services.

Several years back, Liberty Mutual found themselves at a crossroads in their journey to digital transformation. Liberty were looking to invest more in innovation and growth in order to take the next step, however they found themselves held back by OEM vendor hurdles.

The Cloudflare outage underscores the risks of over-concentrated digital infrastructure. Origina’s Chief Innovation Officer, Rowan O’Donoghue, warns that true resilience requires “choice-first” strategies that reduce dependency and keep enterprise control at the forefront.

Since the large-scale introduction of AI, its links to the increase in cyberattacks have been equally inescapable. The sophistication and pace of execution of cyberattacks has increased across the board, and much of this has been down to the weaponization of AI from cyber criminals. So, while we continue to enjoy the benefits that AI brings, we must also be aware of the risks we now face because of it.

Origina have been making a serious impact in the VMware space of late and, since the U.K. bank were about to be left high and dry by Broadcom on their VMware support, it made a lot of sense to bring in a support provider who specialized in seamless support transitions and placed an emphasis on security and stability above all else.

A gap in vulnerability reporting can quietly expand risk across critical environments. Origina’s Ben Lypczynski urges organizations to rethink traditional disclosure processes and adopt models that shorten dwell time, not extend it.

Origina joined global business leaders, authors, and innovators at the Thinkers50 Awards Gala 2025 to sponsor the Strategy Award, celebrating bold thinking that reshapes how organizations grow, lead, and create value.