When organizations debate on-premises versus cloud, the conversation often centers on business applications or infrastructure. Yet one of the most consequential deployment decisions enterprises face is where to deploy their security platforms, including data protection, data governance, DLP, DRM, DSPM, and many other security solutions.
As enterprises prepare security roadmaps for 2026, this choice is no longer just a technical one. The deployment model of a security platform itself directly affects trust boundaries, regulatory compliance, visibility into sensitive data, and the organization’s ability to respond to modern threats such as insider risk, cloud sprawl, and AI-driven data exposure.
This blog explores why the on-premises versus cloud discussion has become more complex for security platforms, and how the choice of deployment model subtly shapes control, governance, and risk across the enterprise.