WMCO Hosts Cybersecurity Webinar Series for Lumber Fabricators
HANNOVER, Ontario — The Wood Manufacturing Cluster of Ontario (WMCO) plans to launch the first in a series of training seminars and workshops on countering cyberattacks beginning February 15.
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WMCO is collaborating with MIT Consulting Inc. to present the series aimed at helping companies in the wood industry understand the need to take action to protect their business and reputation. The WMCO notes that many of its members have reported being hacked and losing valuable data and production time in addition to the associated costs to restore their data. Additionally, the WMCO notes that the average cost of ransomware is around $50,000 per Canadian business.
Registration for Part One, “Cyber Security Risks & Solutions for Wood Manufacturers: What We Need to Know and Do About It Now!” is open to non-members as well as WMCO members.
In his presentation, Erez Zevulunov, director and co-founder of MIT Consulting, plans to cover the following points:
- New Advanced Threat Protection firewalls and how they work;
- End of the old anti-virus and entering the new era of endpoint protection and response software;
- Goodbye passwords and hello two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA);
- Darkweb – is your data there;
- Disaster planning and best practices to protect your data;
- Employee awareness training and how to keep your employees aware of the threat;
- Examples of products used and how; and
- Company case study – find out how they were hacked and the solutions they found.
Future sessions in the Cybersecurity Series will cover:
- Move your business securely to the cloud;
- Manage teleworkers; and
- Cost saving solutions using IT as an asset.