[fsuts]

Profit margin of authentication providers.

They must be ridiculously high

[golph]

I never really thought about this, as I work in sectors where authentication is usually selfhosted. Why is authentication out sourced so much? Is it the worry of data leaks and the administration effort that comes with it?

[fsuts]

Because no exec gets fired if a 3rd party was the problem.

Systems down costing millions in sale? = fired

Systems down due to Azure issue = oh well