Marvel squad. Do you know that bill likes to not shower every day?  Do you know what Mariah does every day? No, just today you're going on the hot seat and we're gonna expose you today. Yes, we are. No, it's my turn. It's your turn. Let's go, baby. But the thing is, mine are probably not gonna be as juicy as Mariah's. I don't have juicy farts and crafts like she does. You have no idea. What are you gonna tell him? Oh, it's crazy. What are you gonna tell him? You have to see. And you have to stay silent. We're gonna mute you. You're muted starting now. You're babbling, but we can't hear you. Okay, bye. Sit on down, baby. It's time for you to get exposed today. And I have things that I have been cooking up waiting. You can't leave. It's either you're here or not here. I don't want to be here. And I'm gonna expose you no matter what. Do you want to be here to listen to what I have to say? Yeah, can I talk finally? No, you're muted. Sorry. Guys, I have my hood up and everything because I'm looking a bit rough today. I did just get a chemical peel again today, and she extracted all my acne. She looks beautiful, but I'm looking rough. What that means is like she literally popped every single pimple on Mariah's face. It's a little red. But you look beautiful. Thank you. I appreciate that, but I feel rough, so. Free the face. Free the face, but we'll free the face when it gets a little bit more healed. But it's not about me. It's about you today, baby. It is time to put you in the hot seat. You're in the pink chair today. A hot pink chair for a hot guy, so. I feel like I belong in this chair, so. You're not gonna want to belong in that chair in a second because I have a good first question. Guys, make sure to give this video a big thumbs up, and if you haven't yet, go down and hit that subscribe button. And let's start exposing him because it is time to put him in the seat since he wanted to do me dirty last video. It is time to give you guys all the tea that you guys have been missing out on. All right, we're gonna start off. Has he ever cheated? Okay, how have you ever started off? All right, so this is a never seen told before story. It has been told. It has been told. It has been told. It has. Three months in a relationship? I'm pretty sure we have. No, we haven't. So I will say he hasn't actually like cheated on me. Yeah, I didn't cheat on her. But this was three months in a relationship. He was a young high school kid. He honestly didn't really understand anything about relationships. So it was kind of like he was young and dumb. Aggressively hot. So pretty much he was influenced to kiss a girl while he was in a relationship with me. I didn't find out until a couple years later when he confessed to me while he was drunk. It sounds bad, but let me tell you, it was so unintentional and like I don't hold that against him. Like, you know, he was young in high school.   I'm not innocent of anything either.  Because that's not how she took it when I first took it. Oh, I was mad. But then I called Julie on Julie's like, it's okay. You were like crying. So mad. You didn't know how to react. And he told me this like a year ago.  I know.  It was honestly something so little. But that was actually before we broke up the first time.  When we got back together, I've never done anything like that. Oh yeah, it was good. So if you think about it, that was like the mature beginning of our relationship. He didn't do anything else. He just kissed her and, you know, I don't know why he chose to kiss this girl. I hope you got more ammo because you started off with a literal bang. I don't, I did start off with a bang, but that's how it is. Let's start with another one. By the way, all the questions getting asked right now are from you. Make sure to follow us on Instagram right now so you don't miss out on being a part of our videos because we literally love tuning in to what you have as questions. Juicy, juicy. So someone asked, have you ever walked in on him watching something he shouldn't be watching? Oh no. No, I haven't. But there was situations where he has. Situations? What do you mean? Where he has and then I wanted something and then he's already... No, no, no. That is a totally different thing. That is a different topic. But no, I have never caught him, but he does. But he does watch it. Yes, you do. No, I'm a saint. Okay. I'm a saint, guys. You have no proof. First of all, so just answer the question at him. It doesn't bother me. You don't have to keep going out of the gate. I know some women bothers them, but I personally, I really don't care. I'm a saint. I'm just saying. He's not a saint. He's not. What is his body count? Oh my God. His body count is two. Two. It's been three, but he didn't choose to go the third route. He chose to do other things. So only two. I was the second. He was my second too. And so we broke up and then the whole situation when I found out he was talking to the girl. It was a long couple months. And I got really upset. So I... So you want... Do you want to turn this video into you? No. Because you're talking more about you than me. No, I'm not. I'm just saying. No, you are. I'm just saying you could have had an opportunity if you didn't. So his body count is two. Would we be together if I just had an opportunity? I would hope so. I don't know. Yeah, I guess you're right. I don't know. Because I don't know how you would have reacted. It could have been a different scenario. I don't know how you would have reacted. Yeah, you're right. But I'm the same. So like I said, I don't do stuff like that. What is your turn off about him? Like what is something that he does that turns me off? And I'm going to expose you. Can I just answer this? What? Everything. Okay, we're muting him. Let me speak please. You're supposed to be silent. So be quiet please. No, not everything. I love my man. I love him with all my heart. The one thing I hate the most is when he doesn't brush his teeth in the morning. Oh my gosh.  And I'm like, did you brush your teeth today? No. That's the one thing. I'm sorry that I don't wake up with a good smelling thing. No. It's after we get out of bed and you don't brush your teeth. Okay, say about this.  Just think about this. What? Real quick.  Like why would you brush your teeth?  Maybe that's why your breath's more rancid because you don't brush it in the mornings. So yes, he's very bad at brushing his teeth. I'm not that bad. His breath stinks. I brush a lot. Okay, I will say I have very high senses of a nose so I can smell things very easily. If I was talking like this way, she could smell my breath. Somehow, if she's in the other end of the room, I could be in like Mississippi and she'll smell my breath in Florida. Yeah, I could. I really could. But no. Just follow me up and be like, yo, put a mint in your mouth. Your hygiene is good. I will say it's good, but you can improve a little bit. I've been on my best behavior around Mara, you know? She's really molded me into the man that I am today. Yeah, I know. You know, I wouldn't be here without her, so. Yeah, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. You love me. Oh, yeah. And you know I love you, right? So much. Even though you're stinky breath. Does Bill ever pee himself when he sleeps? Um, he, yes. He's definitely peed the bed before. Oh my God. Wait, when? When? Hold on, timeline. Wait, actually. Wait, what are you talking about? He peed the bed. He peed the bed when you were little. Okay, when I was little. But you said, yeah. No, I thought you peed the bed when you were with me before. Have you peed the bed? No. No, actually. No. This is what I'm thinking of. So actually someone asked, what is his most embarrassing story? Please, please mute yourself. You're muted until I say so. There was a time when Bill got really, really sick and I was there when this happened.  He pooped in his legit pants, guys. While we were dating when he was so sick, how does that happen? How do you not, you had a toilet literally right across from the room. Dude. How did you not say, oh, I gotta go poo and run? You're old enough to go poo.  I went to relieve that gas and it wasn't gas. It was like, liquid. It happens to the best of us. I'm sure at least one time in your life watching this, you've either done it or you will do it.  I have very bad stomach problems so I understand it.   That's the most embarrassing part of it all. Why do you keep saying shit? What? This is about exposing you. It happens to the best of us. That's all I can say. Alright. What is your ex-girlfriend's full name? No. No. We are not saying that. What? She's been on our channel before? I know. And I love her in the friend way. You know, she's awesome. I'm cool with her. I love her. Hopefully her future fiance is as well. He's awesome. But a wide name name is when you don't have to. You don't want me to name her ex. No, you already did. No, you're not. Okay. Was Mariah the first girl you were in love with? No. I don't think so. What? Was I? Were you in love with? I feel like I would fall in love easy. But I don't think I was in love with anyone because I broke up with them and I never went back. You guys want to know, I'm going to explain something for a second. I don't know if you guys know this but me and Bill actually met before we started social media. We actually dated for an entire year. Yeah.  Before we even had one follower. Yeah. So we built our relationship literally through the connection of love and the adrenaline of us going into work and knowing we were together. It's totally fine if you meet in social media and you guys hit it off and you live happily ever after. That's all I can hope for anyone. I'm just glad we were able to build that connection away from that if that makes sense. And then we found a connection where we were like, you really want to do social media? Yeah. So I feel like, I don't know, we built our love. Like I feel like I did so much different. It was different. Yeah. It was different. Yeah. But yeah, I don't think I've ever been in love because I never went back to anyone. Yeah. Except you. I went back. I broke up with her and then I went back. Yeah. Everyone keeps asking me so much. What now? How big is it? Oh my God. Oh my God. All right. So do you know what like a horse looks like? Something like that? It's comparable to a horse? No, it's not. Maybe a rhino? It's really small. Maybe like a whale? Guys, I'm not going to answer that. Have you ever seen a dolphin? But if this doesn't explain it, his shoe size is 11. So. Oh my God. Oh my God. The shoe fits. That's all I got to say. If the shoe fits. Let's just say that the shoe fits, you know. It's hard just being, you know. Good. It's so perfect. So good looking. Please. I'm being sarcastic. I do think I'm perfect at all. You are perfect, baby. I think you're perfect. You're so nice. Thank you. I love you so much. You're the best person in the world. Even though I'm not clean down to you every second of every day, I love you more than anything in the world. I literally don't know what I would do without you. I don't know. And even though I'm exposing you right now, it's all out of love because I think it's funny. You're not doing a really good job. I think I rose to you better. Obviously, mine. Oh, keep trying to my back though. No, actually. I did. No. I am exposing you. What are you talking about? Has Bill lied? Oh my God.   How are you going to say that? White lie me all the freaking time. No, I don't. It irks me. How are you just going to... It irks me, guys. So six years. He lies all the time.  Then he goes, actually, I lied the other day. It was actually this much. Or actually it was this... Were you lying to me? Literally before we started filming this, weren't you lying to me? When? When I asked what you were watching. No, I wasn't. Yes, you were. This is about me. Yes.  But the thing is... He white lies. I admit it.  Back in the day. Back in the day was bad.  You'll tell me... Yes, she said that. And later on you'll be like, actually, she said this. I understand that sometimes people tell little white lies here and there. Not no biggie.   He's very good at it and it makes me mad. Whatever. It makes me mad. Because sometimes I'm like, are you actually being serious right now? Are you for real? And he's like, yeah, I'm being for real. And I'm like, are you sure? Because I don't believe you right now. The only game I'll lie in is literally like if we're playing a game that you have to lie in. But I don't do it to like hurt. You don't do it to hurt me. You just do it to get under my skin. Yeah, exactly.  I feel like a traditional liar is like lying about something that like would make someone mad if they found out.  You said I didn't embarrass you but I... So... What now, Mariah? Okay. You know couples make love and stuff. That's just, you know, what happens. So while we were making love, we had the covers over us. And Bill... Oh my God. Why? Bill, decide. I didn't decide. Drop a load. Drop a fart. I didn't decide. I just came out. There's a difference. Instant turnoff. Oh my God. That was the nastiest fart. It's because someone asked, was there a time where he did something during intercourse that was gross? Yes, he did. He farted. Okay, but the thing is, I didn't... It freaked and I go, Bill, I...   We had to stop because it was so bad. When you're doing things, it triggers, like, maybe gas sometimes. No, guys, it was disgusting. It was not that bad. And I go, Bill, you cannot be doing that, especially under the covers. But do you want to know something? And I know this is not a roast Mariah video. What are you going to say here?  You know what? At least I don't **** out a full-size football. If you own a dog, you understand. Y'all, he's talking about it, but he's embarrassed. He's embarrassed that I just exposed him. You're embarrassed that you just exposed him. I'm not embarrassed. Yeah, you are. He's thrown up to it. Okay, and I don't know if my fart's being nasty sometimes, but don't try to expose me here. I don't even know if I should expose you this hard. I don't even know if I should. What do you... Can you tell me first before you tell them? If I should. Let me know if you want this muted, but I'm going to say it and we're just going to say it. Okay. Okay, what is something embarrassing that he has never told anyone? I have something. Are you going to... No, you're not. You're not, no, the car. No, I'm not going to do that one. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm not going to do that one. That one's probably going to be the one. I have no idea what you're going to say. Bill used to go in the shower. Oh my God. No, no, no. He would poop in the shower. No, no, no, no, no. He'd shove it down the drain when he was little. I really just did it really dirty. You said I didn't do you dirty, but I had to. I don't know if you wanted that, if you want that muted. I don't have anything to say about that. I really don't. I was young and down. He told me that. And I looked at him and I go, what was going through your head as a child? Like, what made you think to go poo in the shower and shove it down the drain? Oh my God. Your parents. It's our kid. That sounds so bad. I'm saying, bro, get out of here. Marvel Squad, that might sound terrible, okay? Lots of what you're embarrassing story was as a kid because I don't ever have anything like that. That's to an extreme level. And I didn't even expose him as hard as this one story that I'm not going to say. Yeah, you're never going to say that. You're never going to hear the story. Unless you're close friends with family. Announcing that. Ever. But that last one was pretty bad. That was pretty bad. How are you just going to call me out like that? People are going to think I'm weird now. I'm not like that. You were a kid. Mom's like, I promise you, we're talking when I was like six. Little. Little. Like, old enough to barely even take a shower alone. Yeah, he was little. He was little. I will give it to you. You were pretty little. I don't even remember doing it. My parents. I just don't understand what you were thinking. You had a toilet right there.  Stop saying. I just don't want food. It sounds worse every time you say it. It sounds so bad every time you say it. Would you like put it in your hand and shove it down? I don't know. I'm not really. Oh, that's so gross.   Oh, anyways. I was so young. It doesn't even come close to how I am. I hope I was able to expose him in a way you guys wanted. No. There's nothing. If you do any more, you will end me. I swear. I will end you. You're not. I can't end you. The car story is never going to get brought up anywhere. Oh, heck. Y'all can know the title. Yes. It has to do with the car. No. Don't even say that. All right. All right. My wife's gone. I hope you enjoyed this video. This is a roast session on me today. And I hope it was as good as Mariah's, even though I probably did a better job at roasting her. If you like these videos and you want to see more, make sure to give it a huge thumbs up. That lets us know that you're liking the videos. And also comment down below any future video ideas you want. Or if you just want to say, hey, what's up, we'll go and read all the comments and say hi back to you. Yep. All right, guys. We'll see you in the next video. But until then, peace. Love you guys.


Okay. Oh yeah, shoot. Hold on. What is it? I hear this. Okay, so top secret this week, Lady Aida. What do you have? Okay. Well, okay. So I've got, I still have the Pi 400 here. So I made this, hold on. Let me get the Pi 400. And then this is not plugged in. That's what it's all about. Hold on. It's super top secret. Hold on. So top secret. I forgot that I have to plug something in. It doesn't work with that power, it turns out. Okay. So I'm thinking of doing some like a home automation board. I wanted to make a board that would work with, I don't tell me this isn't working either. Yeah. It wasn't on. Okay. You can do it. Back it up so we can see that it's not on. Okay. So after being able to turn stuff on, it's got this little debugging cable here. So this is a, I wanted to make a board that's for like home automation that can work with Home Assistant or Raspberry Pi or on its own to do like home automation projects. And we've done like IOT projects, but I want something that specifically was for interfacing with Home Assistant or like Hue lights or like people who want to automate stuff around their house. Cause I think a lot of people have been indoors a lot for the last couple of months and maybe they have projects that they were like, you know, I want to be notified when my dishwasher is done or when my cat comes in, you know, through the cat door or something. So I made this little board and it's house shaped and we're going to design like a fun silk screen. The silk screen is like my stick figure quality. It's got our TFT screen here. It's got some buttons. I'm playing around with capacitive touch for the first time. So this has a little capacitive touch slider and still working on the design, but I think I know the slider is okay.  And then there's two little cap touch buttons here. And then there's a little cap touch button here. And there's a LED and there's like, you can see there's five dot stars. I'm just, I'm just having them flicker random colors. There's some sensors. I put a doorbell here. This is the reset button. It's a doorbell. So I guess if you want to like ding dong, like wake up board, you can hit that.  You don't really want to have anything behind them. That's why a lot of the PCB is bare and it has this hatched screen. So, you know, what's cool is that we have ESP32S2. It's native Wi-Fi support for circuit Python. And I feel like with the mag tag, we really kind of nailed down getting Wi-Fi support for the S2. So I want to do some more products. I mean, I'm doing the feather boards. Those are coming out. But you know, I've always wanted to have a home automation design. And here's a cool trick that Philby came up with after I designed it. He said, you know, it's basically the same size as a Raspberry Pi. So it actually is, even though it's like pointed up here, the envelope of it is the same size as a Raspberry Pi and the mounting holes are the same too. So you can even mount this on top of a Raspberry Pi to have this be your little accessory board. That's cool. To work directly with it. Like you could act against a shield. It wouldn't plug in through the shield connector, it would plug in through USB, but it would still, like it would be able to plug in through the connectors. So it's not that I get to ask. Okay. That's top secret. Okay.  So we're going to speed around some. And we'll spend some time with those others.


Thank you all for joining us today. There's been a lot of questions in regards to, you know, the deployment of IOT and what does that mean and how do I get the data or the most data out of those demonstrations or those devices that are being connected to provide me information or to automate a lot of tasks. And the challenges with that, you know, most people don't think about security as being part of that equation. And that's something that we're going to be talking about today in regards to what should be thought about in terms of security. What is ITPRO's role in the securing of IOT architecture and what resources are available for the ITPRO to utilize to ensure that the organization they protect from an infrastructure standpoint includes IOT in the conversation. Very excited to have Matt with me today because Matt is a solutions architect, senior solutions architect on the defender suite for IOT. He's going to take us through a journey in terms of hands-on demonstrations of deploying and securing of IOT devices into the field and what ITPRO should know in regards to the securing of those architectures. So Matt, thank you for joining me today. Yeah, thanks for having me. This is really exciting. First question I'm going to ask you, why should IT professionals get involved with IOT? Yeah, it's a great question. You know, when we think of IOT, we usually think of the smart devices in our homes, but I also think about OOT or operational technology and devices that are set on a factory floor or sitting maybe in a utility company or a power plant and devices that actually run a business. And when you think about that, those devices might be susceptible to attack vectors. They might have vulnerabilities on them. And so when I think about how do we secure those devices, a product called Azure Defender for IOT comes to mind, but the reason why IT should care is traditionally these OT devices, right? These water pumps or CNC machines or whatever they may be, they're traditionally air gapped. They're disconnected from the enterprise network. They're disconnected from the internet. But over time, we're starting to see that there's significant advantages to the business by connecting those OT devices to the enterprise network and ultimately to the internet.  But that is a growing trend that everybody from a CIO to a CSO to an IT professional is now starting to look at. And so that's where we start to think about how do we secure that IOT and OT environment tease umbrella, if you will, of responsibility? So yeah, it's a great question. So what's interesting, we mentioned defenders. And defender is something that a lot of IT professionals are familiar with regards to securing your architecture. And it's so great to have that extendability to IOT and its architecture for that single pin of glass to understand what's going on in their architecture because the new hybrid includes IOT devices on the edge, also capturing information, as you said, or automating tasks in the OT world. What resources are available to IT pros through the defend these devices are secured? Yeah, absolutely. So Microsoft has a product called Azure Defender for IOT. And this thing's pretty incredible. We'll jump into some demos here in a moment. But when we look at this slide, it's really busy. There's a lot happening, but I'll kind of walk you through it. So Azure Defender for IOT, it's basically a sensor and it sits on the network and it's sit on that network, whether it's through a network tap or a span port on the switch, and it's doing deep packet inspection on all traffic going to and from those OT devices, whether they're sensors or they're programmable logic controllers or some kind of operational device. And it's looking at that network traffic. It's looking to see what kind of packets are going to and from it, is anything malicious or suspicious activity, so on and so forth. And so it's hands off, right? It's not being intrusive, it's just sitting there and listening on the network. And so that's able to then bring that intelligence back into a management console. We have these OT devices and we'll go through a demo of that here in a moment and I'll show you the reports and the alerts and everything you can pull up on that. Now that is where we have an offline sensor. So I mentioned an air gap network. So this could be deployed in an air gap network. It's just a virtual machine or it's an appliance. So if you choose to go that route and you can sit there on that offline network and you can monitor it using the management console or you can have what's called an online sensor and that connects it to the Azure cloud. And so then you could do integrations with Azure Sentinel and IoT Hub and other technologies up there in Azure to be able to get even more data analytics and be able to provide even more deeper protection for the OT environment. And so what we're looking at here in this slide at the top is those cloud environments for being able to do all the security analytics and the business analytics, but then down at the bottom that's the architecture of Defender for IoT. And over on the far left, there's a important concept we wanna understand and that's called the Purdue model. And I encourage everybody watch this. If you're not familiar with it go out and do a little bit of homework and research on it. It's really important to understand because this represents the OT network hierarchy, if you will, in the OT environment. And so if you think about that physical machinery, I mentioned like a CNC machine or a water pump, that's level zero. And then you've got your controls, maybe those OT devices, those sensors that are monitoring those physical machines, that's level one, level two might be, hey, you're in an operations center and you've got technicians watching water flow on those water pumps as an example. And they're using those devices, that's your supervisory network. And then level three is your enterprise network or user set, servers, printers. And if you understand that Purdue model, and when you work with the Defender for OT technology, that allows you to then figure out, okay, where do I need to secure what gaps do I have? And then where can I start mitigating some of that risk? So I'll kind of pause there, but there's a lot happening on the slide, but it's really exciting because Microsoft is bringing this security technology to the OT world, which traditionally we didn't really have this, right? And it's been a little bit more of a challenge to secure that. So Anthony, should we jump into some demos and take a look at the product? Yes, definitely. All right, let me share my desktop then and give me just one moment here to pull this up. I get really excited about this. So this is Defender for OT and this is the management console that you sign into. And so I'm in my lab environment, I have one sensor, it's an online sensor. And what I log in, I got a nice beautiful dashboard here of things that are happening. Immediately I'm gonna click on devices map. And devices map is going to lay out a network topology of the environment. Now remember this sensor, it's on a span port on my network switch. And so it's looking at all traffic doing deep pack inspection. So it's also discovering all devices on those networks. And so immediately it starts building out a Purdue model visualization of my network. So here you have my enterprise network and that's where there's internet connectivity I found and found some other devices that supervisory network we talked about. Maybe it's an operations center or a technician watching critical machinery and then process control would be where those OT devices actually sit. And what's cool about this is I can zoom in and I can view details about what it discovered. And so this might be beneficial if I'm sitting in a security operations center or I'm just maybe an IT pro or a security pro that just wanna get deeper visibility into OT network. And immediately when I zoom in you can see some of these devices have some colors on them. And if we zoom in a little bit more you can see that they have some alerts and there's some other details about it. But I can also see the lines being drawn. I can see, okay, what's the relationship with these different devices and how are they connected? And anytime I can right click on these devices and look at the properties of it, I'm able to understand what this device is and be able to come in here and maybe say, hey, I authorized this, this device is supposed to be there. This is an expected device. That's important later. So keep that authorization in mind. But this allows me to just view some of these devices. If we come down here and look at some of these OT devices and I look at the properties of those, here we have a Siemens programmable logic controller and I can view the backplane of it and the different slots in that hardware. And so I can view version of the firmware. I can look at, what are these devices? I got a MAC address, I got all sorts of information, like what kind of protocols is it using? So this device map is extremely helpful in understanding what's on the network and then kind of being my point in time where I want to go out and investigate what's happening. And so lots of information can be derived here from this network map. And I can create different views and I can slice and dice it and I can even hide some of these networks. So you can imagine this is my lab environment, but you can imagine if this was a large production environment you'd have hundreds if not thousands of devices here. And so over on the left side is where I can go through and set different filters. I can create device groups and really slice and dice them. The view of this is the device inventory and the device inventory gives me a table view instead of a map view. And the reason why this is important is you need to find something in a pinch. You can set some filters here and even sort some of these columns or you can just add new columns. And so for example, remember I told you about those authorized devices where I could just add a column for is authorized. And when I do that, I could scroll over to the right and I could just do a quick filter and say show me all unauthorized devices where is authorized equals false. And so now I've got a quick and dirty view here of just the unauthorized devices. The other reason why this view is important is I can export this. And so we'll give that a moment to process but I can export it out to a CSV and then I can import that into maybe my CMDB system. I can import it into, if I'm an incident responder, import it into that system through my triage and that just goes out to a CSV file, maybe clean it up, put it into a nice report or PowerPoint deck. Now if I'm using the on-premises management console which is another server and I'll talk more about that in a second, I can import data into this. So remember the sensors out there discovering the network and it's listening to all traffic and it's building this view but I can use the API here. I can import data into this table to be able to add additional devices if I need to. And so that could be handy as well. Now when I first log into the management console here into the sensor, you're probably gonna wanna go to alerts as well. What's happening in the environment? And so immediately here in my environment when I click on alerts, this allows me to see what we consider if you will important alerts, what's happening? And so we have different types of alerts, anomalies, policy violations, alerts where we discovered malware or some kind of malicious activity, operational alerts where maybe there's changes trying to be made on an OT device. And so what's interesting about this is I could immediately open up one of these alerts and Defender for IoT will give me a nice description of what's happening, give me some context here around it. And then each one of these alerts will recommend some next steps and how to remediate that. Now I could also click on these devices and it brings me back to the devices map and then I can see the relationship of those devices. And then from there, I can again view properties and I can drill into it and triage it. Now if we go back for a second, the other interesting thing about this is at the top here, I've got some buttons. I can download the packet capture file or the P-CAP file. Remember the sensor is just monitoring all network traffic. And so if I wanted to here, I can download that P-CAP file, open it up in Wireshark or my favorite tool of choice and then be able to see full context around that packet capture, what was happening before, what was happening after. I can even export this alert out to a report which we'll come back to here in a moment. So I can work with these alerts, I can pin them over to my pinned alerts, maybe those. Now, you probably saw a button here. And let me scroll down a bit so you can see this. You probably saw a button here called learn and acknowledge. So what this does is the system is using machine learning basically to learn about the environment. And so if I tell it to learn, this tells the defender for IoT, hey, this is expected to happen. I'm authorizing this activity, this is normal. I want you to learn from it so I don't see that alert again. So that's what learn does. And then acknowledge simply archives the alert, acknowledges the alert. Hey, I'm done looking at the alert, I'm gonna archive it because my triage is over. Now, here's an alert that we have a policy violation. This is where we had some kind of unauthorized program being uploaded to a programmable logic controller from perhaps maybe a suspicious device. Now, again, defender for IoT, it's very intelligent, it's smart. It knows what OT protocols are and it knows how to interpret OT commands being sent across these protocols. So here's where it took an excerpt of that packet capture and it tells me immediately what's happening there. And then again, it gives me some remediation steps. So that's a little bit about working with alerts. And I can export these out, I can acknowledge everything at the same time if I want to. Even at the top, I've got some nice filters I can set where I can just do a free form search and say, hey, show me all alerts, maybe for the S7 protocol from Siemens and there you go. But what I really want to get to is reports. And so if we go down here to data mining, this is where I can create some custom reports and that then show up in the reports view. In cybersecurity, it's all about the data. And so if I have the data available, I can get new insights to what's happening. I can build a better site picture around what's happening and get more context. And so the sensors collect in a lot of data. So being able to harness that is key. And so I can come in here and click on the plus sign and I can create custom reports. Now the challenge is you have to know what you're looking for, right? But if you have an idea of what you're looking for, you can come in here and choose between just a multitude of categories here and I can build some custom reports and add some filters. So for example, maybe I might want to scroll down here and see, hey, show me all devices that are using plain text passwords. So I'm gonna choose that and then maybe I can add some filters here. Maybe filter it to specific networks or specific devices. That could be an interesting report for devices using plain text passwords. Another common one I see a lot of organizations doing is CVEs. So I'll show you an actual report of this here in a second but being able to identify all vulnerabilities with these OT devices. So that could be critical as well. So building these reports can be extremely powerful. In fact, let me pull up the CVE report. So we just double click on it. Here is where it discovered some devices in the OT environment and it said, well, wait a second, there's some known vulnerabilities here. It gives me the CVE number. It gives me a nice little description about that vulnerability. I can then export this out to a CSV, maybe clean it up, put it into a report. And so it makes a nice way for me to just do kind of a health check, if you will, on the environment. So these reports can be extremely useful. What else is really useful is trends and statistics. So take that reporting concept to the next level. This is awesome. So this is where I can create custom dashboards based on different types of data and add what we call widgets to that dashboard. So I click on add widget here. You have 45 different widgets you could choose from. And so I could slice and dice this however I like. So maybe I might want to see, hey, show me all traffic by port.  I can click on this and kind of separate it and do my filter. I can even click on the funnel icon here and go back in time if I want to. But that might be critical for me to understand, hey, what kind of traffic is going across this OT environment? I once saw an organization that had a lot of FTP traffic taking place and that turned out to be something suspicious. So you never know what you can get when you start looking at these different reports. And so my favorite ones here is just, hey, devices by operating system. What are you seeing out there? Devices by vendor. So trends and statistics and being able to add these widgets and create custom dashboards can be critical. Now, one of my other favorite ones here is if I go to event timeline, being able to understand what's happening before a potential incident and being able to understand what's happened after a potential incident. And so the event timeline just kind of puts everything together in chronological order. And so we're gonna go back in time here in a second and oops, I wanna choose July 1st, not today. I'm gonna go back and choose that again. July 1st at 8 a.m. And so we're gonna go back in time a little bit and we're gonna look at what happened on July 1st. Well, actually on June 30th, it looks like it discovered something suspicious where a new device was detected on the network. And I can kind of follow the breadcrumbs here. Hey, I detected this new device and then look at that, this new device that it detected is sending some kind of programming change to a programmable logic controller. And if I click on more, I can view a little bit more about that and I can even click on the alert to go out to it. And then here's the actual programming change on the right. So that might be suspicious from this new device. There's a script that it's trying to install. And in fact, I can even click on programming timeline and see exactly what it was doing. So I wish I had you guys all day because I would love to go into this with you because it's a great story, but that can be extremely useful when trying to figure out, okay, what is this suspicious device doing to making a change on this OT device? So using the event timeline helps me correlate, you know, what's what happened before, what even happened after and just build a better, you know, hypothesis of what might be happening with this incident. So that's really cool. Two more things here that we can start to wrap up. Over on the left side, I get really excited about the risk assessment. So again, this is the OT environment. A lot of these OT devices have been in production, right? And even in an air gap network and mission critical devices, you can't really update them. It might be life-threatening to do so. It might be severely business impacting if you update them. And so being able to run a assessment report, which I already have one up here, allows me to understand where's the risk set in this environment. Now what's really cool about this is I can customize the logo up here. I can add maybe my company's logo or if I'm a consulting firm, I can add my logo. Maybe this is part of a deliverable I get my client. But it gives me a score from zero to 100% on my security posture in the OT environment. And then it gives me a high level here around how many devices we discovered, which devices are vulnerable, which devices might need improvement. And just a nice 20 page report here all about this with a nice executive summary. And then it starts to go into all the different devices. Now what's interesting about this is if you scroll down, this will give you recommendations on how to mitigate these findings in this risk assessment report. It will give you a list of things like here's all the terminology who we use, very in depth. And then it starts to go into, hey, here's your top vulnerable devices. These are vulnerable because we're seeing some alerts on these, we're also seeing some vulnerabilities or CVDs on these as well. And so this might be just a great report to run and then work with your leadership team on, hey, we need to mitigate some of these findings. Let's build an action plan and a strategy to get that done. So the risk assessment's pretty awesome. The last thing I wanna show you here, and then we'll pause for a second is attack vectors. I get really excited about this. So remember the sensor is discovering basically everything on the network. And so because it's discovering it, it understands what protocols it's using, it understands who it's communicating with, what it's doing, attributes about it. And so you can simulate a tax with those devices to almost run like a what if. Hey, what would happen if this device got compromised? And so when I come in here and run a simulation, I can tell it, hey, here's the source device that maybe got compromised. And then the attacker might wanna attack this target device. Or I could just say, hey, all devices, all source devices and all target devices in the environment. And this is unobtrusive.  It's just modeling, if you will, based on its knowledge. And so here's a great example. We have a workstation that if it got compromised because of a known vulnerability, that workstation has a direct network connection to an OT device. And that OT device has an outdated operating system leading to further compromise. So that just simulated an attack vector that I might wanna go out there and build an action plan to mitigate. So attack vectors can be extremely useful on being able to get this going. Now, to set up Defender for IoT, just at a high level. Again, you have an online sensor and an offline sensor depending on your network requirements and which one you go with. But you can either download it as a virtual machine and you just download it right out of the Azure portal or you can purchase an appliance that has it preloaded from a vendor. And so it just kind of depends on the requirements that you have and in which route you wanna go. But as you can see, this is amazing technology. And when we think about how to protect our OT environment, this can be critical to helping us get awareness and then helping us build an action plan to further build that security posture and lower that risk. So Anthony, I'm gonna pause for a second. What do you think? Matt, it's awesome. A lot of the dashboarding and reporting that you shared is what we as IT pros see in the architectural world for defending of VMs and resources inside of Azure and on premises in the hybrid world, which is really good. So it's something where it's easy to jump on and to take advantage of to secure an environment as a whole, including IoT devices. What resources are available to further understand the threats that are coming in and analyze what's actually happening? Yeah, great question. So I mentioned the offline sensor is like an air gap network. But if you go at the online sensor, you can connect it to Azure, which then you can integrate with something like Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud native SIM. And so this is important because now we're gonna bring in signals from defender for IoT, mix that with signals from maybe firewalls and servers and other security products and solutions to be able to get a better site picture and more context around what's happening. And so here we are in Sentinel where I've integrated defender for IoT and immediately I could start pulling up those same alerts that you saw before the management console. And then from here, I can just go in and I could start doing my full triage. And if this was a production environment, I can sit here and look at those alerts from defender for IoT, but then again, I can mix those with other perhaps related alerts from those other security tools. And then being able to run reports on this and build custom dashboards and then think about all the business analytics and collecting data from these devices. I could even then maybe start looking at predictive maintenance of these OT devices by being able to use this data that's collecting. So being able to integrate this with the Azure services like Sentinel can be extremely useful. And even be able to help build a business case for why we might want to change how we architect our OT environment. Matt, this was awesome. We have two more minutes left. Matt, what is the one thing you would want to tell IT professionals on how to get started? Where would they start in all this journey? Yeah, I'm gonna give you two resources. One, the Ninja training. Microsoft has made some significant investments in what we call Ninja training that has videos and it has documentation, all the things you need to learn about to understand this solution. And so we'll put a link there and the resources for the Ninja training but as an excellent resource. And then the second resource is being able to go out there and get hands on, register for the trial, kick the tires on it and being able to follow what you learned in the Ninja training and get hands on. And then just some recommendations to think about if your organization runs OT devices as an OT network or maybe you're working with one of your clients that has it, start asking those questions. How are we securing that? What are the risks? What's our action plan? And remember this solution, it's not intrusive. All it does is listen to those packets on the network and performs all this great analysis. And so you never know what you can find but now's the time to start thinking about how do we secure the OT environment and building an action plan? So Anthony, thanks for having me. This was a lot of fun. I wish we had all data because there's so much to talk about but thanks so much, appreciate it.


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Thank you. Thank you everybody moving on now to number three


Okay, wonderful. So now we can get started. Could one of us lead in prayer? Vibhikiran? Yes ma'am. Yeah, go ahead. We'll pray. Father God, we come before you, drone one second. And we want to just say thank you, Father God, for the new week, Father God, you've given us, Father God. Thank you. Thank you, Father God, for your presence, Father God. Thank you, Father God, for your help. And give you wisdom and knowledge, Father God, that we can understand the subject, Father God. Reveal more your presence and your words, Father God. And clear understanding, Father God, give everything, Father God. Thank you, Father God. Upcoming time, just a meeting to your hands. Just take care of every side. Thank you. Almighty teacher's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Kiran. Thank you. So in the last few sessions, we were talking about how the writer to the Hebrews really wanted the believers to be mature. But because of the discouragement that they were going through and, you know, the, maybe they did not hold on, hold fast to the faith in the midst of the challenges and the persecutions, you'll find that they were somewhat slack and sluggish. So though he wanted to explain deep things to them, he couldn't. So we began with the truth that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God. Then we saw how he put on humanity. He shared in the things of the earth so that he could become a very sympathetic high priest towards us. And through him we have boldness to approach the throne of grace. All of these things we were looking at and then the writer started talking about Melchizedek and then over there he digressed. And he said, look, I can't talk to you about all these things because you are not yet mature enough to understand. And then we saw how he placed a warning before the people and said that even those who have experienced God in a powerful way, if they fall away. So we talked about falling away in Hebrews chapter 6 that it is very difficult, impossible for such people to be revived once again to their faith. So that's where we were, Hebrews 6. So see, there's a very big difference. I want to clarify that falling in the life of a believer was sometimes, though we sincerely move in the path of righteousness, there can be moments where because of ignorance or because of a lack of strength, we fail. Now just because we fail or we have sinned, it doesn't mean that immediately God is going to reject us. So that has to be very clear. We're not talking about just falling because the scriptures say that though a righteous man may fall, seven times he will still rise again. But this is about falling away. By falling away, what we're saying is somebody who has sinned against God and we see how the Holy Spirit is the one who convicts us. As in John chapter 16, we have that revelation that the Holy Spirit will work in our hearts and keep telling us about the things that we need to correct about ourselves. If we yield to the voice of God, then it's like, you know what we said, a righteous man may fall seven times but he will rise again. Proverbs 24 and verse 16, but if one does not yield to the voice of the Holy Spirit or doesn't repent, if one continues in sin and becomes what we have seen earlier, hardness of heart due to disobedience and unbelief, the way we were told that this kind of a heart condition will keep us out of the promises of God. So that is one thing, but if we continually move in this direction, we are going to be unfruitful for the kingdom of God and there is a grave danger of us falling away from God.  But falling away means a person who willfully rejects God. God doesn't reject them, but they have chosen a lifestyle and a heart condition, heart attitude through which they are rejecting God. So this is the understanding that we got. Now, we had come to a portion in Hebrews chapter 6, this is verse 13, where there is still an encouragement to the believers that God's promises are sure, God's promises are true. So that's what the writer wants to tell them, why are you getting discouraged? Yes, there are things happening around you, but you can be sure that God does not lie. So from verse 13, what he says here is, yeah, I have it. So that's for when God made a promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself saying, surely, blessing, I will bless you and multiplying, I will multiply you. And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. So here God made a promise. So our focus is the promise of God. When we are going through a challenging time, our mind can be distracted by the difficulties. But it is good for us to concentrate or focus on what God has said. Even though everything may look dark, God has spoken and said, for I know the plans that I have for you, plans to prosper you, not to harm you, to give you a hope and a future. So fix your eyes on the promise of God, because similarly, God made a promise to Abraham and said, surely, blessing, I will bless you, multiplying, I will multiply you. But what is the speciality in the life of Abraham? You see that he patiently endured. So when it comes to receiving the promises of God, we need some patience, because we are from a generation where we want everything to happen fast. Even to reach a certain place these days, bus is not good enough. Even your private vehicle is not good enough. We are looking at building metros because, okay, make it faster, make it faster. Just one example, but you understand this is the kind of attitude that we carry. But when it comes to receiving God's promises, you can't help it. Sometimes it takes a while and that is why we need to endure patiently. So when we think of Abraham, always remember, how is it that this man received such an incredible promise over his life? At 100 years old, he had a son. Wow, because he patiently endured. We must patiently endure. That is how he obtained the promise. And then again, letting the believers know about the surety of God's word. God's word, there are different ways in scripture that we are told that God's word is powerful. Hebrews 4-12, we saw it's living and powerful, like two-edged sword, that's something we saw. We also saw how heaven and earth will pass away, but God's word will not pass away. So the characteristic of God's word is that it endures, it is strong. You can put your faith on it and you can depend on God's word. So again, here we are told that what kind of promise did God make to Abraham? To Abraham when he made an oath or a promise, what he did is, there was nobody to swear by. So usually they would swear by somebody who is greater than them. But in this case, it's like there is no one required to confirm the word. God himself is great enough and that word is confirmed. Then we are told that God's promise, that it stands. So here it says promise the immutability of his counsel, meaning what God has spoken. It's unchangeable. And then we are told that God confirmed it because when God says something, it's true. And he doesn't really need somebody greater to come and vouch for it and say that, what is being told is true because in this passage we also read that it is impossible for God to lie. And through all of this, we can have a strong consolation. Let me put it this way, when we are feeling low and we are finding it difficult to believe, did God really say, why is it taking so much time? No, I'm waiting for my ministry to get started or I'm waiting for a breakthrough in my personal life or I'm waiting for my finances to be blessed. And then we sometimes wonder in the waiting, there can be moments of doubt. But again and again, he's trying to say, look at Abraham, God gave him a promise, there was nobody greater to vouch for it. But God himself spoke, which was good enough. And also God's counsel is immutable and God cannot lie. So what God has spoken over us and our life situations is the truth. Excuse me. Even if it takes a while, let us hold on and we will see it come to pass. And in what manner does God encourage our hearts? Sometimes I said we may feel low. Look at the words here, it says that we may have strong consolation. When somebody is upset, what do we do? We console them. We say, don't worry, it's going to be okay. And in the same way, the word of God, it provides us with what kind of consolation? Not just, don't worry, it's going to be okay. But strong consolation, meaning we can be very confident that yes, God is there. He will work it out for me. I will walk in righteousness. And we are told that there is something known as refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. He is a redeemer by nature. And we see in the Old Testament that God instituted many redemptive acts. If you even look at the year of Jubilee, I think 25 years, if I'm not wrong, is when people would be set free, slaves would be set free. And in the same way, there was an opportunity for those who had sinned, who had committed crimes, if they repent for them to go and live in something known as the city of refuge. So there were these cities of refuge where those so-called unwanted people could also go, they could live a life and live with purpose. So you find that God always made opportunities for man to thrive. Even those who are seemingly rejected by the community around them. So once again, the writer is encouraging the listeners and saying that, come on, God is encouraging us and there is a refuge or a place of safety to lay hold of hope set before us. So God is giving us hope in our difficult situations and in our hopeless situations. So you see, in this same passage, what did he do? He gave a nice warning and he said, look, if you're going to go away from God, there is a danger of falling away. And later he said, but don't worry, we expect better things of you. So you find the heart of a pastor where it's not to crush the people or put them down, but to awaken them and say that I'm warning you, but let me encourage you. You will make it, don't worry. God is with you and you are capable of enduring through the hardship at keeping your faith. So the overall attitude is to build up the hearts of the people, not to crush them. Even though there is a very strong sort of like a jolt in between the passage here. So he's encouraging them and he's saying, look, God has given us refuge. There is a hope that we have in God. So hold on to these things. Ultimately, why did Jesus come? He came to give us hope. When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, he said, look, we are the people of hope. Even if he talks about death in 1 Corinthians 15 and he says, even if we die, we have hope of resurrection.  So he's cheering them up and saying, come on, hold on to the hope. And about hope, he says, hope, the hope we have as an anchor of the soul. A beautiful, very beautiful line here. Hope is what? The anchor of the soul. So once again, if you look at a ship and a ship that is brought back to the harbor, usually they would anchor it to that place so that it doesn't wander away. And in the same way, in our souls, you know, we can go through all kinds of emotions. We can go through all kinds of thought processes. But in the midst of everything, if we carry hope, which says, I know that God is for me, I may be struggling right now, but God will bring me out. You know, God will make a way. God will open the door. God is my redeemer. God will give me the wisdom. So what's happening? Outside, you know, there's all this turmoil, but deep within, what is the anchor of the soul? Hope. So we must be careful never to live our lives without hope. As believers, we can hold on to that hope. And here, we are told hope is the anchor of the soul. Don't lose it. Don't ever lose it. God will give you the stability you need in the faith. And what do we hope about? We hope about the promises of God because it's sure. We don't have to be afraid. What he said, he will do it. So we are told that hope is there. It has been given to us. It is sure and steadfast. And this is found in the presence of God. From where do we get our hope? From the presence of God. And also, we know that it is Jesus who through the sacrifice that he made, you know, that the veil was torn. And we got access into the holiest, holy of holies. So it is the work of Jesus in that sense who has provided us the access to God's presence and the hope which is in the presence of God. So whenever we come, I don't know how many of you have experienced this, but maybe we are very discouraged. But we spend time in God's word. We come away with a promise in our hearts. And we say, okay, no problem. You know, I have hope, God will work. Or, you know, you're going for a time of worship. Let's say you're singing and declaring and praising the Lord. You come away with a sense of hope because in the presence of God, there is hope. So the believer, don't be discouraged believer. Be encouraged. Hold on to the hope which we have through Jesus and in the presence of God. We are told that the forerunner has entered for us. You know, forerunner is somebody who goes ahead of us. Who is this forerunner? Even Jesus. Where did he enter? He entered the presence of God through his sacrifice. And what happened? Who generally enters the presence of God in the Old Covenant? Who had the access to the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies? High priest. Yeah, very good. So a high priest. So now that we are saying Jesus has entered the presence of God, who do you expect him to be? Easy answer. Okay, come on class. Somebody can say it. Okay, great. So Prince is saying high priest. That's the correct answer. So the Lord Jesus having entered the presence of God, like all the other high priest, we recognize. Oh, this is a high priest. And what kind of high priest? High priest forever. According to the order of Melchizedek. Now again, what the writer is really doing is this is a Jewish audience. And for the Jewish audience, they could accept the Lord Jesus as the Son of God. But because they were so caught up in their rituals, they may have thought that, you know, isn't it good for us to go back to our rituals to have a high priest who would make the sacrifices in the temple for us? You know, so for them to go back to their old ways was a possibility out of what? Out of discouragement. So they are being encouraged and they are being enlightened that what you have now is the real thing. Whatever practices were taking place under the Jewish traditions. As spoken of in the Old Testament, they are just a shadow. You have the real deal in your hands. So why do you want to go back to your old ways? Hold on. There is hope and Jesus is greater. Jesus is the one about whom all these things actually speak. So that's the intention of the writer here and he's helping them see as Jews. You know, they want clarity about the temple, about the temple worship, about the high priest, you know, all of those things about the covenant. They need to settle in their minds that what they have in Christ Jesus is greater than all the things that they were proud about earlier. So that is why he is letting them know that Jesus, he is the high priest. Directly in the presence of God and what kind of a high priest, you know, many different features of the high priest, high priest forever. And which order does he come from? He comes from the order of Melchizedek. Once again, he's going into that explanation of introducing why the Lord Jesus is so precious. So we will understand that no further ahead. So we will move on to chapter seven here of the book of Hebrews. Okay. Now, since he introduced the term or the name Melchizedek, he needs to explain it further. Now you would be amazed that this person Melchizedek is not mentioned very many times in the Word of God. In the book of Genesis, you come across an encounter which Abraham encounter or a meeting that Abraham had with Melchizedek. And that's the only place. And now again here, you know, you have this word about Melchizedek. And he says, for this Melchizedek, who is he? He is the king of Salem, priest of the Most High God. So the old covenant we saw that generally there would be kings. You don't see a king who is also a high priest. If you recall during the time of King Saul, he tried to offer up a sacrifice to God, but it was not accepted because he was anointed to be what? He was anointed to be king, not the priest. Okay. But the priestly ministry at that time was done by Samuel. Now priestly ministry are prophetic. You know, he was the one who went in as a prophet. In fact, he was anointed. But you don't see the combination of a king and a high priest. So what is unique about Melchizedek? He was the king, a place is mentioned, Salem and priest. Priest is again defined by the God whom they minister to. So Melchizedek is the priest of the Most High God or we know. He is trying to introduce Yahweh to them because they are familiar with the Most High God. Abraham meets Melchizedek after he went for a conquest. So he slaughtered kings and when he meets Melchizedek, he does something.  So we will look at it, you know, okay, I'll just tell you. So because of this, Abraham giving a tenth of what he had got from slaughtering the kings. We have this practice of the tithe. We tithe, isn't it? We tithe a tenth of our income to God. Abraham gave it to the priest. So technically he is giving it to God. So that's how it worked in the Old Testament. So it was given by Abraham as an honor. We are told Abraham blessed Melchizedek. Now who is this Melchizedek? A little more. We understood that he is from the Old Testament. He's a king. He's a priest. He received a tithe from Abraham. His name is translated King of Righteousness. And his name is also Salem translated King of Peace. So what kind of a king is he? He is the ruler of righteousness and peace. So something very special to have a king like that. And a little more about Melchizedek. He did not have father or mother. That implies that he was not of a human origin. Very interesting isn't it? So he has a heavenly origin. Because here on earth for us to be in the world as a human being, we are born through parents. But Melchizedek without father or without mother, which means he is a heavenly being. And then further without genealogy. So you can't track the human tree, ancestral tree for Melchizedek. Obviously he does not have that physical beginning or end. And he says, again, we are told having neither beginning of days nor end of life. But made like the Son of God remains a priest continually. So it's a very special person. This Melchizedek and the historians and theologians when they study about Melchizedek, they come to two conclusions. One is they say, okay, this is a heavenly being who is honorable. And many of them say that it could also, if not just a heavenly being, this could be what we call as, one of the ways in which Jesus was presented early on in the Old Testament. You have some presence of the person of the Godhead. And it could be Jesus himself that we are talking about in Melchizedek. So these are the conclusions that people come to. But one thing we understood that this priesthood that Melchizedek carried is very different. It's not like Aaron's priesthood at all. Okay, now we will come back to that a little later. Now let's continue talking about Melchizedek. So when Abraham gave, what did he give? What did Abraham give Melchizedek? This type? Yes, type. So a tenth of the income, that is a type. When Abraham did that, it was as if the sons of Levi, okay, sons of Levi are the priests, isn't it? Even Aaron, they, Aaron comes from the tribe of the Levites. So the sons of Levi who later on received the priesthood, it was as if they from the loins of Abraham tied to Melchizedek. Now, it simply goes to tell us that the priesthood of the Levites blessed Melchizedek and that the priesthood of Melchizedek is in that sense more honorable than the priesthood of Aaron. That is what he's trying to establish. So even Aaron and all the other priests who came after him through Abraham, because where were they? They were all still inside, they were to be born. So in the loins of Abraham means the generations of Abraham. Later on, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and then the sons of Jacob, Levi, then the priesthood of the Levites came about. But the Levites honored Melchizedek through the tithe which Abraham gave them. Now, beyond all contradiction, the lesser is blessed by the better. Here mortal men receive tithes but there he receives them of whom it is witness that he lives. So in this equation, you know Melchizedek being the greater, the lesser, which would be the Levites, they blessed the one who is greater. So even Levi, whichever way you want to pronounce, who receives tithes, so the priests are the ones who receive tithes, paid tithes through Abraham so to speak for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. So it's like saying, if you go back to Hebrews 1, there he talked a comparison about angels, isn't it? And he said that even the angels worship Jesus, so elevating, exalting Jesus and showing that the position of Jesus was much better than that of the angels. And similarly, now coming to the high priest, the position of the high priest and telling the people all the high priests whom you honor, they are from the line of the Levites. Imagine, even those high priests gave a tithe to Melchizedek, meaning they honored Melchizedek. So which is a better priesthood? The line of Melchizedek. So that is the point that he has established. And so he is continuing to say, look, if the levitical priesthood was perfect, then there would be no need for another priesthood in the order of Melchizedek. Everyone could have just been a descendant of Aaron and continue with the work of God. But God wanted to bring in something new. So God wanted to bring in a new priesthood. So from verse 13, we will just see that he introduced this earlier. For he of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no man has officiated at the altar. So this means Melchizedek, the line of Melchizedek. For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah. Wow, what a contradiction. The priest should be from the line of the Levites. But Jesus is from the line of Judah. So it's very different of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood. And then he goes on to explain that though he was from the tribe of Judah, he has the priesthood from that of Melchizedek. He is another priest who has risen in this way, not according to the law of the fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.   Of course, now for the Jewish believers who are listening to this, they might have thought, but we are not able to reconcile this. Because Jesus, he never went to the temple, he never sacrificed things. He came from the tribe of Judah and all that. But the final authority is God. And God has appointed Jesus from the order of Melchizedek. And it's a better order obviously because even the Levitical priesthood from the loins of Abraham, they have honored the order of Melchizedek. So he's trying to say that we have a high priest who is so much greater than the priest that you honor among you. So be confident, be bold. He just talked about hope, isn't it? Why should we not have hope if we have such a wonderful high priest and he's a high priest forever. So I'm at verse 18. Once again, he says that if the law of Moses was perfect, then there was no need for something new to be brought about. But oh God, on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope through which we draw near to God. But God understood that we need something better than the laws and the practices that the Jews followed. Because ultimately what were those practices? They were all talking about the coming Savior. So why are you sticking to those traditions when you have the real deal? Right before you. So that is the word that he brought to them. Now he goes on to talk more about the superiority of this high priest, the Lord Jesus whom we worship. Now it is told, I'm reading from verse 20. And inasmuch as he was not made priest without an oath, for they have become priests without an oath, but he with an oath by him who said to him. So you have to understand that how did the priests through Aaron get their appointment? Just by descent. Meaning Aaron, if somebody was born in that generation and they fulfilled a certain criteria, they were made into a priest. So there was no qualifier. There was no election. There was no choosing. There was no appointment in that sense. But what is the difference when it comes to the Lord Jesus? He was made priest by the will of God. God was the one who decided, okay, I am going to make Jesus the high priest. So the Lord has sworn and will not relent. You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. So this is not by birth or descent, but by an oath like God has chosen and God has sworn that he wants to make Jesus the high priest. And this Jesus, he is the surety of a better covenant. Now if we go back to the covenants that were made earlier to God's people, now God promised them through the covenant, there are many things. You receive God's forgiveness. You receive God's blessings. You receive God's protection. So you receive many things through the covenant that God made. The way he blessed Abraham and said, I am going to bless you, make you a blessing through the nations. So already it sounds very good. The things that God has given his people and the way he led his people.  But think about this. The right of the Hebrews is reminding these Jewish believers. If you thought the covenant that God had with you is great, the Lord Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. So there is a covenant which is even greater. And in the case of a covenant, you know, you always needed, it would be made between two people. And as long as, you know, one of them is there, as long as one of them is able to keep the promise, it would stay. Now think about the Lord Jesus. He is a high priest forever and he is appointed by God. So his position comes with great authority and surety. And such is the one who is the initiator of the covenant. So you can imagine, just in that it seems like a better covenant to us, isn't it? Now, there are many more things as part of this better covenant that really bless the believer. And so there is so much of hope which is being provided in these verses for every believer. We are told that Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant, better blessings upon our lives. So why do we look at the earthly challenges and the earthly difficulties and we are ready to give up our faith? So don't do that. Try to understand how deep this revelation about Jesus is and how, you know, sure it is, I think it can shake it. So your confidence must come from that as a believer. Now in continuation, he talks about priests and verse 23 where he says there were many priests because they were prevented by death from continuing. So again, another additional feature that increases our hope and our confidence. He says all the other high priests died. But he or the Lord Jesus who is a high priest now, he continues forever and has an unchangeable priesthood. So under the priesthood of Aaron, you know, after that duration was over they would change. Okay, so the next person would come in and the next person would come in so on and so forth. But what is this about Jesus? Unchangeable priesthood and forever. And so the believer is being encouraged. Look, this kind of a priest, you can expect this priest to be there to save no matter what you are going through. So this scripture, Hebrews 725, it says therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them. So this high priest is able to save us from, you know the oppression in the world. Every tactic of the devil in the world, all the problems which are created by sin, whatever that is, whatever extent that goes to, we have somebody who can save us. So the term there, save to the uttermost. So what are you experiencing? The hope which we have is incredible. This God is able to save us to the uttermost. Because of the nature of the priesthood, he's not going to change. You don't have to be afraid that somebody else will take Jesus' position. Then I have to tell them all over again, you know what I am going through. No, he's going to be there forever and you can depend on him. And also he adds this as a high priest. He lives to make intercession for them. So what is the kind of intercession that we expect from the Lord Jesus? We know that on the cross, when he died for us, that in itself was a form of intercession. And now with that victory, he stands in the presence of God. So that speaks for us. What Jesus has already done is a form of intercession. He's already done it. He stands as our advocate who has acquitted us already or because of whom we have now been set free and we have been delivered. So this is the kind of high priest whom we have. What we'll do is we'll take a small break, we'll come back and we will continue from verse 26. So let's go for a 10 minute break and we shall be back.