Enterprise Network Security is Improving but Facing Smarter Threats - What About the Individual?

The Aberdeen Group just told me that they released a free report on a decrease in network threats. The highlights are:

Best-in-Class companies reported a year over year decrease of 8.6% in network security attacks.
Best-in-Class companies reported a year over year decrease of 7.3% in all application security attacks
11.9% of Best-in-Class reported a decrease in successful Application Security Attacks.

The summary went on to say. “Network defense technologies have matured to remove the “low hanging fruit” of network vulnerabilities but in the never ending, cat-and-mouse game of network security, network attacks have moved up the OSI layers, all the way to Layer 7, targeting the applications themselves. In response, organizations are increasingly deploying secure application development and deployment methodologies to supplement and aid in meeting compliance and IT security requirements.”

When I became an enterprise of one, my PC was exposed to all kinds of attacks that brought it down. So I got a Mac. So far the attackers have not found it or the protection is better. There is a lot of attention on enterprise security. I wish someone would do a study on the security issues faced by individuals like myself.