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Don’t Let the Urgency Fool You! – Cybersecurity Introduction Part III

Published by: Lindsey Downs | 2/9/2023

I’ve written a couple blog posts already introducing different aspects of cybersecurity, including a general introduction to the topic and a description of common password issues. Today I want to talk to you about a certain kind of cybersecurity threat […]

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A Hopefully Interesting Introduction to Passwords

Published by: Lindsey Downs | 9/8/2022

Password security is, simultaneously, one of the most important and most hated aspects of cybersecurity. To many – myself included – it’s frustrating and confounding that everyone should need so many passwords, each of which contain more complex characters, just […]

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MonsterBash: Data Protection and Privacy Unmasked

Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 10/31/2018

It is getting scary out there! What a spooky coincidence that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month! It is 2018, is your institution or organization’s data protected? How do you know the goblins, ghouls, and trolls are not already […]

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 1/16/2018

It seems like all the cool kids are writing about last year’s trends and predicting what will come to pass in 2018. Well, we WCETers don’t want to be left out of the fun! Over the last few weeks I’ve […]

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Data Privacy for Institutes of Higher Education (IHE)

Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/5/2017

Data privacy and protection is becoming an increasingly important topic on a personal and professional level and in all fields -not just higher education. Lately stories about hackers gaining access to important data has filled my news feed. We need […]

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