Comment by w_t_payne

Anti-virus endpoint software is essentially (and necessarily) a rootkit. Businesses installing antivirus software are placing an incredible amount of trust in the antivirus vendor.

Without trust, the antivirus vendor has no business whatsoever. As a result, they are (or jolly well should be) ultra-careful to earn that trust. This includes subjecting their employees to a certain degree of vetting.

In the age of cloud computing, the same relationship dynamics are observed between businesses and the cloud vendors to whom they entrust their data.

See? There it is again: Trust.

Important stuff.