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The article highlights current problems concerning the perception and evaluation of security in the 1980s. The content, extent and perception of security have changed in the last 20 years. The content, extent and perception of security have changed in the last 20 years. Most importantly, the biggest threats to the security from cold war times have been eliminated or minimalised. On the other hand, there are new threats, which are mainly internal and non-military like ethnic, environment, health and crime etc. There are two different views on security. Some experts conceive it as a state of a concrete social organism, others prefer to comprehend security as an activity, or reaction to a stimulus or threat. This stimulus can be considered either exclusively external and violent especially military or can include internal and non-military. The broader the sense of the security threats, the lower the estimation of the level of security. The level of security should not be evaluated solely according to the types, amount or intensity of the threats. Considering the level of the risks resulting from these threats is of the same importance.