At PC World, Roger Grimes looks back at the good news and the bad in data security over the past year.

"Let's start with the good news: Most computing devices and software became more secure in 2009," he writes. "Increasingly, more vendors are starting to take computer security and patching seriously."

"The bad news on patching?" Grimes asks. "Well, the fact that it's still so frequently and desperately needed across all OSes, all browsers, across nearly every very popular program."

Click here to read the PC World story.