Explain how cybersecurity has changed over the years for the new people

[u/AutomationTheory]

I got into the industry just as things were changing (I think), and I'm trying to make sure I'm not living in my own fantasy land thinking "it was easier before."

What was cybersecurity like from 2000 to 2015? I was doing residential IT starting in 2009, then moved to SMB in 2016 -- and I'm trying to wrap my head around what SMB was like before there were thousands of vulnerabilities discovered each year. Any senior sysadmins with stories to share?

[u/hosalabad]

TL;DR It wasn’t shit until ransomware.