80% of professionals say on-premisis security more mature than "cloud"

Courtesy Doug Cahill blog (ESG Research

Any company selling SaaS will recognize this type of customer concern. 

Of course the reality is that there is no one "cloud".  Maturity and capability will vary across all organizations and industries.  Unfortunately, many risk assessors mistake possession for security.

When assessing risk to adopt a SaaS product, consider..

Bit9 + Carbon Black + Confer

Cybersecurity vendor Carbon Black (formerly bit9) has announced acquisition today of malware detection upstart vendor Confer.

Confer is a lesser known advanced endpoint protection vendor.  It provides a behavior-based method of threat detection.

There is no shortage of "next generation" behavior-based threat detection products, such as:

• Palo Alto Networks Traps (cyvera)
• SentinelOne
• CrowdStrike Falcon