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I'm not a security specialist, but it seems to me that while managed services typically have better security and sysadmin resourcing, they also have the downside that their security can fail at a massive scale. If someone defeated the security of, say, GitHub, they could leak all the private repos stored there.

Managed services also have to accept connections from the public Internet, which on-premises solutions do not.






> If someone defeated the security of, say, GitHub, they could leak all the private repos stored there.

In theory you are correct but this is like saying keeping your money under your mattress is safer than a bank.

Yes, in theory someone can still all the money at a bank but the bank is infinitely more qualified/competent to not get robbed than you would be.


banks aren't safe because they're unrobbable, they get robbed all the time. They're safe because they're the ones taking on the risk. Data isn't fungible like cash though.



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