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This is not an erosion of skills. Since I started in IT around 2008, it has been rare for most people to care about security. Even now, it's hard to get any tra

This is not an erosion of skills. Since I started in IT around 2008, it has been rare for most people to care about security. Even now, it's hard to get any traction. "We're not a target." I've heard it in more or less words, so many times. I'm burned out on fighting this fight. The senior staff at that time were often the worst. They didn't want anything to make their job harder, and they didn't see a threat. So if you pushed security hard, you were the enemy. It's a little better now, but not much.

blooalien 4y ago
You're not alone. I've had the same experience since pretty much back when it became clear that security would become an issue "down the road". I've been repeatedly ridiculed as "paranoid" over the years for my stance on security being an important factor in networked or multi-user systems, and it left me feeling pretty "burned out" as well.