Software
Rick Baker

Digital Transformation in the Retail Sector

To compete, retailers must reimagine their processes. The ability to build custom products, share design ideas, and interact with your staff will turn into customers. Forward-thinking businesses who can develop virtual solutions to new physical restrictions will survive, and those who can astonish customers online will thrive!

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

Building a Patch Management Process

Patch management is the process of distributing and applying updates to software. Patches are occasionally required to correct security vulnerabilities and bugs in operating systems, embedded systems, or applications.

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Software
Rick Baker

Customized Software Brings Major Success

Armed with facts about service and product improvements, businesses that want to outshine their competitors invest in customized software solutions that fit like a glove. Employees and clients, stand up and take notice. Growth, loyalty, and enjoyable careers follow.

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Planning
Rick Baker

Biases & Software Project Management

Most people involved in software projects recognize there are communication differences and disconnects. Many people conclude that those communication differences and disconnects exist because some people are “tech people” while other people are “business people”.

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

Security Plugins for WordPress Websites

Our mission is to keep client websites secure so that they can enjoy the benefits that the internet can deliver. Augmenting and enhancing your website’s security through DDoS protection, private cloud hosting, network firewalls, and stakeholder education. Working with a cybersecurity partner who can implement and manage your website security strategy is the best option for small to mid-sized businesses.

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

How to Cyber-Protect Your Business

At Waterloo Cyber, we are focused on creating simple habits that do not cost much money and increase your organization’s cybersecurity. Cybersecurity has a chance to excel when it is embraced by business leaders, who lead by example. They lead with good habits, including planned communication of cybersecurity messages that will be shared throughout their organization.

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

Can your Smartphone be used to guess your mood?

User protection for accelerometer data is lacking, largely due to the lack of understanding of the issue. In current mobile operating systems, third-party applications can access accelerometer data without requiring any permission or conscious participation from the user.

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Software
Rick Baker

Creating a Customer Relationship Management Tool for Your Business

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software is designed to improve the way your business serves your clients. For managers, a quality CRM application will provide management with the ability to track all sales activities, forecast revenue, and foster collaboration between employees and departments. For sales staff, a quality CRM can be used to organize time, automate sales processes, and help close deals.

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

What can DDoS Protection do for Your Website?

A DDoS Attack is an attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a server, service, or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic, resulting in Denial-of-Service to would-be users. Cybercriminals use multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic, which prevents regular traffic from arriving at your website.

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

Improving Cybersecurity at Not-For-Profit Organizations

Not-for-Profit (NFP) organizations face a unique set of cybersecurity challenges. NFPs must account for a large and diverse group of stakeholders including donors, volunteers, clients, and staff, all of whom must be educated on cybersecurity best practices to avoid becoming the channel through which cyber-criminals attack the entire organization.

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

Cybersecurity for Your Website

With WordPress websites becoming more sophisticated, and the responsibility for managing the websites moving from webmasters to business owners, major cybersecurity issues have emerged.

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Planning
Rick Baker

Managing Successful IT Projects

People come to NeuStyle when they are struggling with software projects and experiencing sticky problems. The best first step when we assist people who are having problems with software projects is performing an assessment of the project. We need to understand the overall goals, the tools and techniques, and the current state of problems.

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Cloud
Rick Baker

We Drink and Share Our IT Cloud Kool-Aid

Waterloo Colocation has the rare ability to deliver private, public, and cloud deployments through our data centre in the University of Waterloo Research + Technology Park and as a member of the Microsoft Partner Network. We treat your data and operation needs as seriously as we treat our own. We enjoy matching your services to your needs as much as we enjoy matching our services to our needs. We drink our own Kool-Aid.

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

Understanding the Ransomware Threat Landscape

The proliferation of ransomware tools, the increased use and value of cryptocurrency, economic instability, and the overall increase in data (and value of data) are making ransomware attacks easier to commit and more profitable by the day.

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Software
Rick Baker

The Greater Your Ambition, The More You Will Encounter Sticky Problems

All businesses that want to grow, improve, or be sustainable face both day-to-day problems and Sticky Problems. Some progressive small-to-mid-sized businesses are working to solve their Sticky Problems and disrupt their industry sector. Some progressive small- to mid-sized businesses are working to solve Wicked Problems to change the world or make a dent in the universe.

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Leadership
Rick Baker

Some Thoughts About Problems, Mistakes & Attitudes

Be bold. Be confident – your thinking is creating top-quality solutions. Share your solutions and be open to feedback that helps you improve on your solutions and uncover opportunities. Share your solutions with business peers…exchange ideas, exchange improvements, and exchange opportunities.

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Leadership
Rick Baker

Book Review: 8 Things We Hate About IT

I strongly recommend that all business leaders read 8 Things We Hate About IT. Whether you are trying to disrupt your industry through innovation or trying to keep day-to-operations running smoothly, understanding how to work with your IT partners is vital to your success.

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Cyber Security
Rick Baker

What is end-to-end encryption?

Think of NeuTeria as sending a secret message in a physically indestructible box, with no keyhole to pick or hinges to pry open. The box arrives at your recipient’s address without a postal worker and can only be opened and decrypted by the recipient.

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Software
Rick Baker

A different approach to data backup

At NeuStyle, we take a different approach to data backup that combines our expertise in IT service delivery, data centre management, and cybersecurity to deliver a cost-effective, reliable, and secure solution.

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Cloud
Rick Baker

Hunger for Big Data

With Big Data, we have access to unlimited volumes of every imaginable type of food … awaiting the arrival of creative recipes. But, what about

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