Security experts are mixed on whether turning desktop applications into cloud services will deliver security benefits. The browser appears to be following email and productivity applications in a move to the cloud. Virtualized browsers offer privacy and security benefits, such as isolation from potential malware. Critics of pushing additional functionality into the cloud point to virtual desktop infrastructure, which has suffered from slow adoption, as the potential fate of applications in the cloud, as well. Other attack vectors such as email and documents are more successfully guarded by traditional security software.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/experts-question-security-payoff-of-sending-apps-to-the-cloud