Cloud repatriation and cybersecurity challenges

**Executive summary:** Many organizations are migrating workloads back on-premises (cloud repatriation), driven by business strategy and security concerns; this report outlines key security challenges—data protection and encryption, network vulnerabilities, IAM disruptions, patch management, compliance, and skills gaps—and recommends mitigations such as thorough risk assessments, robust encryption and key management, network hardening, IAM transition planning, compliance coordination, and staff training.