Since the dawn of the cloud era, the security of cloud vs. on-premises software has been the subject of heated debate, especially in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and government. According to Gartner, “No evidence indicates that cloud service providers have performed less securely than end-user organizations. The recent history of public clouds has demonstrated that brand-name, externally provisioned, multitenant services are not only highly resistant to attack, but also are a more secure starting point than most traditional in-house implementations.”
