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126 THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK JOE DYSART SECURING YOUR COMPUTER NETWORK: KEY MOVES FASTENER DISTRIBUTORS SHOULD MAKE FOR <strong>2021</strong> from page 48 A good place to start is to require employees to log into your computer network via a Virtual Private Network (VPN), according to the new Kapersky Report, “How Covid-19 Changed the Way People Work’ (www.media.kasperskydaily. com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92/2020/05/03191550/6471_ COVID-19_WFH_Report_WEB.pdf). Essentially a VPN is an encrypted network that your employees use to access the Internet. Given that VPNs are a private gateway to the Internet, they make it much tougher for hackers to study how your employees are using the Internet – including how your employees share files or how they’re using video meeting software. VPNs also protect the identify of employees accessing the Internet. And they also keep private a worker’s IP address, location and passwords. VPN access is relatively inexpensive, running about $12 monthly or as little as $3.50/ month for three-year plans. Even with VPN, it’s a good idea for fastener distributors to ensure the devices employees use to log-in from home need to include security software to protect your business. Phones used from home by employees are especially vulnerable. Ideally, you’ll want employees to use businessissued mobile phones for work. If that’s not possible, you’ll want to consider specially designed software that separates business data from personal data. Lost phones mean lost business data. So fastener distributors will want to install software on all employee mobile phones offering anti-theft capability, such as remote device location, screen locking, biometric security features like Face ID or Touch ID locking and the ability to wipe all data from the phone. Employees using their own phones for business also need to know that if they lose their phones, your fastener distributorship retains the right to wipe all data from the phone if business and personal data is mixed together on the phone. ¤ Double-Down on Email Security: Security pros say compromising employee email remains one of the most common methods hackers use to penetrate a business network. So you’ll want to shore-up your defenses in this vector, according to Cybriant Managed Security Services (www.cybriant.com). FASTENER DISTRIBUTORS ARE ALSO FACING INCREASING BREAK-INS ON CLOUD ACCOUNTS IN <strong>2021</strong> The Coronavirus has triggered a new set of hacker penetration schemes, including malicious emails disguised as info requests on your business’ economic stimulus payment request. For an employee, that’s a tough email to ignore. Delete a legitimate email and you could be on the hook for the business loss of Paycheck Protection Plan money. Click on a fake version of those emails and you could open-up your business’ network to malware, ransomware or some other kind of unwanted penetration. Similar hacker emails are also arriving offering fake advisory news about an employee at your fastener distributorship who has been infected with the Coronavirus. And hackers are also having fun spoofing employees with fake notifications regarding a fake shipping problem or a fake shipping delay caused by the Coronavirus. Still not enough? Hackers are also happy to send your employees emails featuring .PDF and other attachments that promise to detail your business’ Coronavirus policies. The boldest hackers also demand that your employee click on a link inside such emails confirming that they’ve read the policy. It’s an easy way to download malware or ransomware. All told, more than 27% of employees and managers surveyed during the early months of the Coronavirus epidemic said they had received malicious, Coronavirusthemed emails while working from home, according to the Kapersky Report. As always, the best defense against email hacks is to continually refresh employee awareness about the problem. Some security consulting companies specialize in providing ongoing education for your employees. that training often includes ongoing remote testing of employees by email on the latest email hacks. For more info, simply Google “Employee Email Security Education.” ¤ Beware Cloud-Jacking: With increasing numbers of companies moving to the cloud, it was inevitable that hackers would follow them there, according to the 2020 Sophos Threat Report (www.sophos.com/en-us/labs/ security-threat-report.aspx). The hacker trick in the cloud: These days, even novice hackers can buy automated scripts on the Dark Web that enable them to take complete control of the cloud infrastructure for your fastener distributorship. CONTINUED ON PAGE 168
THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK 127 SPIROL International Corporation is pleased to introduce the new CL220 Split Seam – Extra Clearance Compression Limiter to their expansive product offering. This post-mold installed Compression Limiter has a flexible diameter to accommodate wide hole tolerances, while the seam is designed to prevent interlocking in the free state. The spring force generated during installation provides selfretention of the Limiter within the plastic assembly. Once installed, the CL220 provides a minimum clearance of 1mm over the bolt diameter; 0.5mm greater clearance than that provided by SPIROL’s CL200 Split Seam Compression Limiter. The larger inner diameter (ID) also accommodates the protective coating of ArmorGalv®, a zinc alloy thermal diffusion coating that provides up to 1000+ hours of salt spray protection for highly corrosive applications such as marine, automotive, mining and industrial manufacturing. The benefits of ArmorGalv® include no insignificant surfaces on the Limiter and that the entire ID receives full coating and protection. SPIROL offers a variety of formed and machined Compression Limiters to accommodate different compressive loads, positional tolerances and installation methods. Standard formed Compression Limiters include: Series CL200 Split Seam, CL220 Split Seam – Extra Clearance, CL350 Split Seam – Heavy Wall, CL400 Split Seam - Oval, CL460 Molded-In - Oval and the Series CL500 Molded-In designs. Standard machined options include: CL600 Aluminum and CL601 Headed Aluminum Compression Limiters, and the CL800 Brass and CL801 Headed Brass Compression Limiters. For more information contact Spirol International Corporation at Tel: 1-860-774-8571, Fax: 1-860- 774-2048, Email: info@spirol.com or you can visit their website at www.spirol.com.
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