Is WordPress MultiSite secure & how much can it scale?

Great info on How to Scale WordPress and more info on WordPress Web Hosting. Still, I am left with questions.

Creating a project that for the sake of argument we will call a blog network. A user signs up for an account and then the blog network company creates a subdomain install for the user. For example, userdomain.blognetwork.com.

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We have lots of experience with wordpress and zero experience with multisite.
1) By creating admins for each subdomain, what security concerns should we have and how to we address them?

Thank you for all the help.

EDIT: Removed sub questions for better focus

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  1. Is WordPress MultiSite secure & how much can it scale?

    WordPress.com — single best example of WordPress Multisite at a large scale. Period.

    As for the expertise to be able to maintain and manage the cluster — which you should question yourself — it’s a different story.

    By creating admins for each subdomain, what security concerns should
    we have and how to we address them?

    I won’t answer that directly. But what I can tell you is, sometimes vulnerabilities aren’t noticed until some big blog/network gets hacked. You better have measures in place. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.