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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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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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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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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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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