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Hmm centrally managed, by a third party, not on premises, critical security infrastructure with kernel access? There is definitely reading of cloud service that describes it.
The machines are on prem. That's the whole point.
If the machines were off prem they would be managed by some company with at least basic sysadmin competence and it would merely be a major annoyance to fix this. As it is, every mom and pop with a moron for an IT department is going to have to fix it themselves.
My company’s shiny new ERP system is hosted by our vendor, a large and growing company which sells to many industry verticals. The system is still down.
If our little SMB IT department had been running it on premises, we would never have installed endpoint protection on our servers. We may have had all kinds of other problems we couldn’t hedge against because of our scale, but we have the good sense to weigh the risks ourselves instead of complying with a customer’s backside-covering audit checklist.
You're right that I failed to consider that there are tiny cloud shops out there. When I was talking about cloud I was thinking about the big three.
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