The state of security ... its all realitive

Jerri Ledford over on his CW blog writes about the current state of security and why it is not getting any better based upon the information in another CW article.  Jerri says it is not a surprise seeing as how we hear about more and more announcements on the latest security breaches every day. I do not fully agree with Jerri (no surprise there).  I think the state of security has actually gotten better for certain things. It is just as Jerri points out, that we have other threats to worry about.  The threat and goals from hackers have changed from where they were a few years ago.  As a result we don't see the large mass market worms like we did.  We don't see the successful DDOS attacks we did.  We do see more phishing scams, data and ID theft and economic harm.  Today's hackers and threats are the evolutionary descendants of earlier threats.  They are more focused and economically damaging, but todays security problems are certainly not your Dad's or even your big brothers problems from a few years ago!