[bendiksolheim]

> When you're on prem you only have to worry about your own employees opening sketchy PDFs

This is just plain wrong. When you’re on prem you have to worry about configuring all of you hardware and software correctly yourself. Your firewalls, your SSH server(s), off site backup systems, hardware failures, software patching, access points to your network – the list goes on. Some of these are true for cloud services as well.

They are just different trade offs. Sometimes on prem makes sense, and sometimes cloud services makes sense. You can’t say that security is less of a concern in one of them.

> Nevermind the fact that the next time a major world conflict occurs, the big 4 cloud providers will probably be destroyed, taking about 90% of the western economy with it.

And it somehow does _not_ take your on prem system with it? Even though cloud providers are spread across the whole world, and your on prem system is most likely in one, single location?