Hey, above-life channel. Welcome to our Monday video. As always, the purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today, I am plugging in my microphone so you can hear me. And I'm going to do a sound check. Our video today is about heart navigation. It's inspired by the group of incredible souls that I had the opportunity to connect with last night on March 3rd with our twin flame connection where I got to share my personal stories. So that was interesting. I think I handled it okay, but I don't know. You know how it is. You're like, I don't know. Did I do that okay? I was definitely in integrity, for sure. So I feel proud of that. And I'm also proud, and that's an ego kind of minded word, but it's the best words to say that I showed up and I did it. And I'm willing to do that work and just for you in that work. Good. It's working. So here on above-life channel, as you know, we're kind of twofold here. We got two parts to us just like our human experience and our spiritual experience on above-life channel. You will see playlists. If you are new here, you'll see playlists that show a lot of channeling because I have done psychic mediumship work for this year to be 20 years. I know you don't look that old, do I? So above-life channel was originally, it came from this place of needing to share the messages and the information to connect and communicate and to inspire your spirit and fill you with hope after the death of a very famous person, Prince, in 2016. I started to do formalized channeling of afterlife, like celebrities. Before that, I did also talk to celebrity people, like famous people that I was, you know, interested in connecting with and getting information and advice from. Just like you can, by the way, you can do that. But above-life channel has a bunch of playlists you'll see that are based on that early work here. This is like, I don't know, am I five, six years old here in this channel? It's been a while that we've been on above-life channel doing channeling. And so now, after a very powerful and profound near-death experience that I had in October of 2023, I have opened up this incredible sacred container of love and experience, metaphysical experience, mystic experience, psychic experience, and energy experience. As a clear, a healer and healing advocate and as a life coach, I really am here to help support you and share all the information that I have had throughout this last 20 years, plus to be able to pass that along to you now, and just tell you everything I possibly can about energy, about spirit, about really embodying your life more fully so you can do your own healing work, you can be your own advocate, you can take care of yourself in your heart space, and that's what we're focusing on this year as 2024 on above-life channel has been declared the year of the empath. Here you can join us on Mondays for a Monday weekly video. I try to do it live stream if I can, like I have been doing. And also on Sundays, we have Sunday morning coffee where we take a topic, something that's come up during this week, and it could be from a client session that I've had, it could be from a meditation that I've done, it could be from just something that is in the collective field, and I will take that topic and talk about it and give you a pep talk and inspire you. It's always, always the energy is focused on what we can learn, what we can heal, things that are also practical or practical application because if you get psychic information and you can't apply it, it is not, what's the point? I mean this isn't TLC or whatever, okay, this isn't entertainment only. This is practical application for DIY stuff. So roll up your sleeves and get busy. Okay, this is our focus. So today the heart navigation topic comes from that twin flame group I did last night, which was awesome and I know I'll do more, and I would like to actually do long term groups, so we'll have to see kind of how that works. The next opportunity to connect with me privately in a group setting, which is very, very affordable, it's only like 40 bucks I think, so much I think I charge for that, yeah. And is on March 21st, you can see the link below in the description. So the heart navigation piece is going to, I hope, create some kind of form like a structure, a loose shell or container, whatever your mind likes to use for your word, for your metaphor. It's kind of a loose structure to be able to then utilize the information that you've been given from whatever experience your heart is feeling from or reeling from. So I would like to do today what I would consider like an energetic activation, a support for your healing process, your healing journey, and do a little energetic work. If you're not into that or if you don't feel alignment with my vibrational energy, then you don't need to do that. You don't need to do it. You don't have to do that part. And you can always come back to it if you're in the middle of work, you work right now and you're just taking a 10 minute break to get your little spirits uplifted. I want to come back to that part. So first, I want to chat about it a little bit. There are actually three symbols that I use when I'm doing the private work that I do in the Twin Flame, coaching and healing work.  And so there are three kind of symbols that I use to help support the heart that are a structured kind of framework for the heart. And they're just, it's very simple. They're just symbols, but a symbol is something that your brain can participate then in holding that space for the heart, which is super important. Because so many of us as empaths have experienced such a dramatic and traumatic separation from who the core and the soul of who we are throughout our lifetime. We've unlearned ourselves and disconnected more from our spirit side. And we learn, we yearn for that. We long for that. It's really just basic symbols are so important in bringing in that mind, the brain. So the brain doesn't become an obstruction or a resistance point for you. It can actually be an ally.   We got to get you back in here. Come on, body. Come on back in. It's really important that we ally within ourselves. And so the symbols, although it seems who I would say we go symbols, metaphors. That's how the creatives do it. That's how the, the authors write their novels fiction or non fiction. That's how the symbols and the metaphors in art speak to us in different ways. Right. So these are medicinal things that we have come to forget our medicinal as we have shared and expressed our own energy and through those in those ways, those are healing things. So the three want the three symbols are and we talked about them. Just, we talked about a couple I mentioned a couple briefly last night, but I didn't teach on them or facilitate on them. I'm doing this now as an extension for those incredible souls. So the first is the energy of the infinity sign very simply, very, very, very simply the infinity sign is an eight. And it's sideways. And so it brings together the left and the right, the masculine and the feminine in theory and comes to a point where everything is all one or equal. And it comes to that center point it brings together that that place of oneness and unity. And so the infinity sign can bring together that which has been separated within the heart space and you have been separated. Okay, you have you've had heartache and heartbreak, right? Whether it be through actual relationship like to inflame scenario or soulmate scenario or from grief or loss, a loss of a loved one or a beloved pet, whatever that might look like for you or heartache just this feeling of disappointment or a sense of loss or grief. Grief is really common. Okay, and especially this year empaths be aware you're going to be hit by some of your past grief stuff.  So it doesn't take up space because you're going to look at it and feel bad that you weren't the size of those damn jeans back there. And then you're going to be tempted. I got to tell the story because you know it's true. You're going to be tempted to try those jeans on.  Do you see what I'm saying? Do you see what I'm saying? And then you reminisce about the past and what's lost and what can't be and what isn't.  Does anybody have that experience? I'm just guessing maybe maybe the reason why I could describe it so well is because I've had it to multiple times. So that infinity sign that sideways eight brings together that which has been separated and allows us to not focus on the past or the future. But to be in the present and bring ourselves together to shore ourselves up because oftentimes we're being pulled back to the past. We're being we're being guided by things that happened before that we haven't come to terms with. Which basically means released and released and released and released and released so much that it doesn't really influence or pull us anymore. And that's the goal is to stop the pulling to the back the past. That's hard. I know it affects me too. It's not like you're done. I'm done. It's a cycle. You do it over and over again. So when you use the infinity sign, it gets easier each time because you're not just using one side of you to try to deal with whatever you're feeling or experiencing. And you're only half present for this life right now and making decisions right now with only half your capacity. You want to get into the alignment energy and you want to use your heart chakra to do that because you're an empath. And this year especially this is the time we got to learn how to use the gifts inside our heart space and not be derailed or take the old old old ways of thinking like oh you're too sensitive. Now you wear your heart on your sleeve. Oh I got to protect the sensitive ones because they're so weak. Girl we got to change those stories. We got to change those storylines don't we? Yes we do. And we will with things like the infinity signs. We're going to bring that infinity energy if that's an alignment for you. You can use it at the front of your chest to balance that right and left. Or to balance the future and the past energy and just come together in the center. That point is the center. There's always a third. There's not just this or that. There's always a third. There's always a sacred third. There's always that middle point right. It's not just this or that. There's and both in the center. So that balancing. You can also use it at your shoulders by the way. To shore up your shoulders. Have you ever seen somebody with like a broken collarbone? Unfortunately I have. When one of my kids was little. He broke his ladder. They call it the ladder across here. Oh my good buddy. And you can't cast it. So they put you in this like kind of like a brace kind of thing and then it's like buckled and like at the back and it holds it up and so it crosses in the back. And it kind of reminds me of the infinity sign. How it comes together in the back and it literally just holds the shoulders together. And it creates a structure of support in that back again in order to navigate in the heart space or with the heart. In order for the heart to help us navigate. We got to support the heart. So this is a structure so like you can use it at your back to you can use it at your back. Do I have any yogis in here? Bring your shoulders up to your ears. Squeeze squeeze squeeze if you can if it's comfortable and then just drop them down. Oh yes. Feels good. Do you see what I'm saying? And those that infinity sign holds up those pork chops in the back. Those beautiful angel wing shoulder blades as we call them. I've got a pork chops in the back. It's beautiful. Very supportive. A little nod to the archangels to the angels who are here. Archangel Metatron is coming in again because Metatron was here last night for our twin flame conversation because Metatron helps support the twin flame energies. And actually somebody asked a question in our group and then Archangel Michael came in and was like I'm going to answer that. I'm like okay. Okay dude you can have the floor whatever works. All right come on in. And also Rafael came in. Healing. So we're going to honor Archangel Metatron and recognize when it comes to structure Metatron supports that and helps us to align or realign. Like our chiropractor spiritual adjustment. Hello in the chat. I'm seeing you. Hi. Nice to see you today. Hey greetings back to Long Island New York.  Actually Long Island technically isn't but New York is. I've been there before. I was there a couple months after 9-11. Had to walk everywhere because the subways weren't working down by Battery Park. So hi is that Mackie. Hi Am. Nice to see you. Welcome to the chat today. All right. So the first one is the infinity sign. Feel free to use that. Use it. Use it. Utilize it. Utilize it. Utilize it. Now if that's not your jam and that doesn't feel in alignment. Totally fine. I got something else. I said there were three right now. So what are the other two that we got to help us with our heart and navigation. The next one is near and dear to me. In fact I'm considering extending my tattoos up my arm and my shoulder and getting one for this particular thing. Which is an hourglass. An hourglass. You know those timekeepers. It's a triangle with the point below and then a triangle with its pointing up. So it's like an as above so below energy. Look at that sacred geometry. And if you've worked with me in private session or been around here for a while in the times of fairy grasshopper YouTube. Or worked with me in any way shape or form on any of the platforms that I've been on like Facebook or TikTok. You would know that the as above so below energy of that triangle is super powerful for me personally. So that triangle in fact I have one and I'm not going to put my foot up here because that would be kind of rude to put my foot on the desk and show you my tattoo. I have a little I have a tribal symbol of when I consider a tribal symbol of a triangle pointing downward with the dot in the middle. Yes I do have that. Yes I do. You can look up what the meaning is of that. And also the triangle in my work is about truth. Whenever I see the symbol of a triangle in any way shape or form I'm like that means true. So if you're talking at me and I'm like oh you say something I'm like oh that's really that's their truth. Oh my gosh that is so true that is so true. Or if I'm chatting with an in sharing some energy information from a spirit guide or somebody or Archdra Michael sharing something for example. And I keep seeing a triangle. I know it's truth. This is a this is a big deal. This is so true for this person that they might not be able to receive it because it's a true like in your face. This is the truth. Can you handle the truth kind of vibe right Jack Nicholson. Yeah. That vibe that you sometimes you can't handle the truth and that's OK. Cannot we're not forcing it. I'm just saying triangle symbol of truth so truth. What's true here is what's true here or is it or is it not and what's the reflection. Oftentimes when we are in relationships hello empaths when we're in relationships we're getting reflections that's why you get triggered. That's why you either really love somebody or you don't love somebody and that's why sometimes people are in your life for a reason a season or a lifetime. Temporarily for a particular purpose good bad whatever just chill not a big deal a little bit longer for a season of your lifetime maybe it's during the time when you're having kids and you're hanging out with all staying home moms or whatever you know that kind of vibe.  Whatever that is that as above so below energy that reflective energy the reflection and reflections can be challenging and difficult and uncomfortable to say the least but that's why you that's when you go to a life coach and that's when you get out your you know your card deck and you do some cards to inspire your spirit fill you with hope that's when you start doing your own stuff right or maybe you jump on above life channel and get some good vibes some videos whatever that might look like to you.  Even if you have a walker or a you're wheeling it maybe you're wheeling it and your wheelchair you know maybe you have a situation of chronic health disease that really challenges you.  That's what those triangles mean they are true they tell you the truth and you know I know the truth. I don't always want to know the truth I don't want my face all the time because I the truth is inside of us we have the truth. We're constantly getting the truth right and so we do we do the best we can let's agree to that we do the best we can. So that our glass also can be symbolic of time passing of the limit limitedness of the human body and the human mind. And yet understanding that there are also divine opposites for that or divine reflectors of that they as above so below which is our spirit. So our spirit mind our divine mind the one mind will always exist when the physical body doesn't and then also the physical body energetically there is an energy body as well that holds the physical body during this time. So you see there's always there's always that reflection that that that this and that that as above so below energy that's not always intended to be rough and harsh but intended as support. You know and and giving you accuracy in seeing yourself and feeling yourself and in a way that's accurate and not so harsh or intense. And so the heart navigation is a place where we have to use the reflective energy and we get triggered a lot and emotions give us so much information and yet we might not want to know. So sometimes we make up other stories and those stories become placeholders and over time those stories become something that's heavy and weighs us down. And then we got to get that infinity sign back in because it's pushed us away from what what our center is what our alignment is and what we know. And you know what this is not none of the words that I share with you are about punishing. And if you resonate with any of the experiences that I'm sharing with you it that's good. It's not bad because you're in a state of awareness which awareness is the the most important thing in order to be able to do anything about anything. That's that gets what the first step of the power is for you and the hope it starts with awareness. So so that's good. It's not nothing is meant to be a dig or a judgment if it feels like that that's a reflection. That's that that's that hourglass that is giving you truth about life right now and how you really maybe feel disappointed and you aren't sure maybe what to do next. And so there is a balancing that's happening a leveling out that's happening. This is natural we all get to the state multiple times in our lives.  Well it's not about fixing it's about being it's about being in your body being in your life and working with the body mind heart and soul very simple model and using tools like this like the infinity sign like the hourglass. So the hourglass is also a sacred balancing energy. Okay, it's a sacred balancing energy and it's medicine.  Maybe you love the Magdalen energy. And so then yours would be filled with rose petals, for example. Okay, so when you envision and you utilize the energy of the hourglass think of it as not time is running out. It's not a rush. There's no sense of urgency. And it's hard not to see it that way, but see it as a balancer, a leveling out of things, giving you an accurate depiction of this point right here right now in time of power that you have because you can always make a different choice. Even if you're living in public housing and you lost your leg to diabetes and you're in a wheelchair, roll yourself toward that window and you look at those birds. And you look at those wings and you start to talk to them and connect with them because they're totem animals and they give you medicine.  You're getting aware of your body. You start expanding the energy of the energetic body around you and that energy body comes into your human body and it starts to work together and they're not separate. They're an as above so below energy. And maybe you start writing because you're so inspired by the birds and you write poetry and you start a blog or you don't.  You're creating what you were created to be here now do and that is to take care of yourself at the essence core. That's what heart navigation is about.  Yeah. This is why there is a above life channel with free content for you to be activated and active and choose your power and utilize it and practice. Choose what works for you. The rest that doesn't just leave it behind. It's totally fine. I'm so not going to be ever offended by that. You need to use discernment. Yes. Decide what's best for you. I'm just giving you choices. It's like a smorgasbord above thing. So now the fourth. So I want that. I love the idea of the hourglass for me. It just feels so good. It just gives me for me. And there's definitely this life affirming energy in it. And it's just so filled with knowledge and wisdom and things I love energy. Of course, mine would be filled with glitter. Seriously. You know, I should get an hourglass. I don't have one. Wouldn't that be cool? Maybe I have enough symbols and metaphors. I have one right here on my altar, but I kind of don't want to show you because I want to, I got to tell you the third one first and then I'll show you. If you ask me in the chat to show you the one in my altar that I have right now, I will show it to you after, but you have to ask. So you can ask nicely. You could ask with an emoji or a thumbs up or whatever. Cause this is live streamed right now. Okay. So the third one is very, your brain is going to love this one. Okay. And this is something that I use in one of the service offerings I have. Again, I have service offerings at different price points. Okay. I already told you about the groups, the group of like, it's like 40 bucks or whatever for the inspiring psychic experience, like old school psychic reading, fun stuff. Once a month I do that. But I also have a energetic forecast that I do. I do it in audio or a video format, depending upon what I have access to and how many people have ordered it. It's like, I think it's $80, $85. It's like a, it's like a 20 to 30 minute audio or video about you and your energy for the month for four or five weeks of the month. But the number three heart navigation symbol here that I'm, I'm sharing with you today is the foundation of that service. And it's amazing, highly valuable. And that would be the compass, the compass using the directions, you know, you got the north of the, the northeast. So I can't do it opposite, like I'm talking to you, but I see it differently than how it's going to show up here. But so the north, the west, the east and the south energetically, which also is the overlay of a Native American medicine wheel, which I have a mentor, red turtle bear.  And so he gifted me the energy of that medicine wheel. He's Lakota, if you're curious about the ancestry. And so that with the directions in the compass, but also the elements are connected to the compass. And so I use that in the energy of the energy forecast for the month. So north is air for me. Okay. This is different for different practices and traditions and things like that for me. Cause I have many traditions that I bring together in me. I'm like a casserole. I'm like a soup that you just throw all the stuff in, which is awesome for you guys. Cause then I can speak lots of languages, a spirit. But so north is air. Start with that. And then I go to the east, which is the energy of fire. Of course it is. Yes, it is so exotic and sensual. And then we go to the south and the south is home. Energy and it's energy of earth element. And then we go to the west and the west is that expanded energy. Go out west and explore the possibilities. And that holds the water element. I also have a fifth element when I'm doing this because of my lineages and it is light. And light is the cosmos, the astral, the universe, the stars. It's that. Okay. And we are light. We are the body of light, the embodiment of light and the pillar of light. So that's the fifth one. And the, the, that is the element is light, but the center core is the direction it's center core. So we are the center core pillar in the middle. So the compass is super helpful. Right. It helps you navigate. And so in the heart, the heart compass is something that is so helpful and it's very articulate or very, um, it's very well received by the mind. Yeah. Like that's why I apply all the metaphysical stuff with the physical stuff. It's got to be practical application or you can't like, you can't just float out in the ethers and then join your body every once in a while because when you come back to the body, guess what's going to happen? Something else has moved in there and taken over some of that heart. And it's not such a good thing.  And you don't want it to be too late.  Let's use our brains, people. Let's use our brains. We have seen the context of society when we forget to use our brains or when we only use the heart and we misunderstand or misinterpret emotions. So let's use that third symbol of the compass to help show us around, to keep us in a rhythm like through the seasons of the year. Through the calendar days of the week, through the months of the year, however you want to harmonize that rhythm and the patterns of things. Let's use that compass to help us with the heart navigation. So now we've supplied your heart with three different symbols to help support you in navigating through this world here as the empath that you are. Okay, so we've got that beautiful infinity sign. We've got that as above so below double triangles of the energy of the hourglass. And now we have the compass, which you could utilize in whatever orientation you choose to use it as. So for me, I also, I blend it with the energy of the medicine wheel. And for you, you might blend it with the elements and the seasons. Maybe there's a little bit of a pagan vibe there going on our Celtic vibe, whatever works for you. Okay, that's what matters. You take it.  You utilize it in a way that's going to be the recipe for your energetic management as you move ahead this year for how you're going to communicate and connect at the simplest form of just a sacred geometry shape or a symbol. So sacred geometries. Now remember, there's lots of different kinds of sacred geometries. I don't have any handy. I actually have a cloth that I have a grid, but it's under here and I have stuff on it. I'm going to take it out, but like the multiple circles of the flower of life or the very center core of that, which is the seed of life or Metatron's cube. For example, just to name a few, the Shriantra, which is one of mine. That's one of my symbols that I have. I use a lot and yeah, those are just a, just a couple, you know, the sacred spiral, the golden spiral, all that kind of stuff. There's a lot, but it doesn't have to be a sacred geometry. It can be a symbol. It could be a clover. It could be a old school heart shape. Whatever it works for you, that's what matters. Okay. That's what provides a structure. That's what gives the brain the permission to support the heart. It's that simple. You guys, it's that simple. This is, I don't know why more people aren't just accepting and receiving all the stuff. That's just easy and available, right? And maybe it just takes a reminder. Maybe we've forgotten so much or got distracted, right? Okay. So who wants to see my little symbol on my altar? Oh, Ireland. Hello. Oh my gosh. I love that. The Celtic tradition is such a vibe for me. I love it. The Celtic shamans very much. So, um, uh, one of my lead guides was Odin and I also have, um, the song God Lou. And I also obviously bridged, um, is energy for me. I'm Nate. That's my name of origin, my birth name. Um, oh God, I love Ireland. I've never been there yet. Yet. Um, but I also follow Mari Kennedy's work. If anybody else hasn't, you might want to check it out. The Celtic wheel. M a R I Kennedy. Mari Kennedy. She just beautiful. I followed the Celtic wheel last. It was the last year of the year before. I think it was the year before. Um, a wonderful, wonderful program. Wonderful program. Mari Kennedy's Celtic wheel. I love the Celtic wheel. Oh, and I have OMS. That's what's actually interesting. Ireland girl. Um, well, I shouldn't assume gender Ireland person. I actually have my OMS on the grid clock. I use OMS. Yes, I do. The tree Celtic tree magic. Actually have this on my outer space. Those of you who love the trees. Hello. Okay. Sorry. Distracted. Distracted. Okay. So you want to see what it is here? Yes. Yes. Please. Okay. Let's see who else I got here. Hi, Lori. Hello, Indigo. Lisa from Florida. Nancy. Hello, Mackie. Again. Once again. Okay. All right. So I'm going to show you. You would expect this on my altar. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. Signatures. I'm not kidding. I have a two of them. I have another one over there too. On the bookshelf. Right here. So. Empress and right. It's the end sign. Very simply. Right. It's the end sign. And I love this. Because it represents to me. All in oneness. This is like one of my energetic signatures for sure. Is the end. In fact, when I was doing my website, I was like, oh, I love this. I love this. I love this. I love this. It doesn't have to be the glittery one. You know, it can be just a regular one, but can I make an Empress and my logo? And she was like, what? I mean, look at it. It's kind of like a lemon skate, but it's got like a little bit of fancy fanciness in it. I love this. And it's inclusion. It includes everyone. It's like harmonization. It allows for it's not the end of a thought. It allows for more to come. I love that. And it's like none. It's not. It's totally like a non-binary vibe. And it's also an inclusive. Let's bring together. I love this. I love this so much. So this is one of the major symbols that I have on my altar right now. I also have a huge tree. A wooden tree. As well on my altar space. And so that is also a sacred symbol. And it's beautiful. Actually, you know, I should show you. I'm going to show you my big tree here. Give me a sec. Give me a sec. I'm going to get my big tree. Oops. Here she comes. Here she comes. This would be the most beautiful. I'm going to put this in here so I can hear. Don't you think this would be the most beautiful tattoo? Like in the back. On the back. Isn't this gorgeous? Look at this. I love the tree wisdom. You thought I was just playing with the Celtics. Oh no. Isn't that gorgeous? Yeah. Now there's symbol, the tree and the world tree. Right? The symbol of the tree and the metaphor, right? Of how it changes and the seasons. And do you see what I'm saying? See how important symbols are and how easy it is to create a structure with them for the heart space. You could put a tree right in your heart space. Safe and sacred space right in your heart. So. Okay. Okay. My lovely people in the chat and on above live channel. I so enjoy you all. I always look forward to coming and being here. And today was a hard day a little bit this morning to show up. I was kind of like yesterday was a full day and it was a beautiful day, but I was like, oh my God, I'm exhausted. I'm going to go take a shower, do some yoga. And I have had coffee, which I'm trying not to have so much coffee, but I also have some tea from Miss A out in the East Coast. Thank you so much for the tea that you sent me at Christmas. I love it. And I got your card the other day. Thank you. Beautiful soul. I appreciate you so much. It's an honor to her. Thank you. I am drinking the tea also. So. Yeah, it's good stuff. All right. So if you are interested in connecting with me and finding out what I'm working on. Remember also to join me on tiktok. If you're on tiktok or also Facebook, I'm trying to post more on Facebook on above live channel on Facebook so that I can for those of you who are on into the tiktok, I can post the videos there and you can see them and I'm trying to do some shorts and some different things. I really want to share with you and keep you up to date on the stuff that's coming through for me and what I'm working with a lot with clients and session as well. I am, of course, doing intuitive life and energy coaching sessions. Okay. So I'm not doing traditional psychic greetings like tell me my future, which I've never really done anyway. Because I think that's so boring. I'm not going to tell you what's going to happen. Plus I shouldn't. I have no business doing that because you need to create your life.  I can just give you the hits and the insight as to what you're already doing and working on. So you have to be in a place where you want to heal. And it's a journey, my friends. It is a journey. Healing is not a destination. It is a journey. It's not an event. It's a lifestyle. And I don't mean that in a bad way to like dig you down. I mean that in a good way. I mean that in a good way. Isn't it cool when you have the power? Like and you do. And you do. And then sometimes you just need a little extra help to kind of ground you. And for check ins and to support you. So the twin flame. The twin flame private work is cool. It's a little more involved when you first start out because it's a longer session to start out with because we got to do the whole story and you got to be witnessed and you got to be heard. And then the stuff that comes up there. I make notes on so that we can come back circle back around for healing and consistently go back to see what the patterns are and what we need to clear at each session because part of the twin flame journey is to release that past tie. So it's not so hard.  And so you can be present in the now moment, you know, and it does take people a long time to actually decide that they want to heal that. That they want to release it because there's a lot of fear around that because there's a ton of grief. There's a ton of grief that comes. But it's already they're already in grief state and they don't even really realize it. And so I help work with those emotions and the energy that's there. So it's kind of it's a more expensive first session because it's bigger. It's longer. But then after that it's like coaching and healing work all in one. The same though with my intuitive my intuitive life and energy coaching work. It's the same kind of kind of thing after, you know, it's the same structure, you know, so anyway, there will be lists in the description below of the services. And again, you can join the group at the end of the month. If you want, you can sign up for that. Again, that's a lower price point. It gives everybody access or more people access than a private session because that can be out of the budget. And then the, oh, the energy forecast. I haven't really promoted that much. I have some people that just do it all the time with me, but it's a little tricky. I plan ahead a little bit because it has to be ordered by, I think, like the 20th of the month or something. So I have time to do them all, you know, because I have to go under the year energy and tap in and go through the month and then send you the, I record it. And then you, I send it to you right at that beginning of the month. So you have it or a couple of days before, if I can, I usually do. So anyway, lots of opportunities to stay connected. All right. So I'll be over on TikTok and I'll try to post on Facebook as well. All right. Thank you so much for being here. I hope your spirit has been inspired today and that we've encouraged you to live your life because that's the point. You are here and it's your life and you get to live it.  Thanks for being here. Thank you so much in the chat. I loved you all. Hey, thanks for being here.


My name is Noa Kipsalam-Rono. I come from Kenya, from Riftivali province, a town called Eldoritz. I came to Manipal Hospital seeking help for my surgeries on my legs. I got into some accidents sometimes back in 2005, but I was done good surgery in Nairobi Hospital. In 2015, I fell. On falling down, I spoiled my femur. I was done with surgery. From then on, I did not work properly. A developer infection almost immediately I was done. It was removed and put a spacer on my leg. So after removal of the spacer, I started having a problem with my right leg having pain. I could not walk my leg shortened. So that's why I started looking for assistance from India. I first saw Mr. Noa Rono, a 52-year-old gentleman from Eldoritz, India, who works as a government administrative officer. So his first complaint was his pain that sustained after a fracture he had in 2004 in the road traffic accident. After that, he was told that he got a hip fracture on the left side of his knee-rape surgery. So they went ahead and did a left total replacement. And he was supposed to be in the prospective fine for about 10 years back. Unfortunately, in 2015, he had been fell down and this time he had a fracture around the processes which we call as a peripositive fracture. Now he had an infection in his left knee that had to be cleared. At the same time, he noticed increasing pain in the right hip. And X-ray showed that he had developed the right hip arthritis, probably from loading the right hip more. Now in 2019, his left hip was semi-revised for the third time.  So he was working on that temporary hip from 2019 for the next two years till now. But I was really surprised to be told that my leg, my left leg, had a spacer but no bone. The infection ate the entire bone, meaning from my hip joint to near my knee. But I thank God of Dr. Sunil Keeni, whom I had followed him and actually I had my trust in him. He gave me a proper orientation on how the surgeries were going to be done. Now the challenge was that both his hips had to be replaced. The first thing was that the left hip had to be cleared of infection. So we did blood tests and workup and luckily he had no infection of the left hip. That means he was ready for both the hips to be replaced. So as per patient's demands, his right hip which was simpler and was affected more was first done by the right totally replaced person using unsympathetic implants. The surgery went well and after four days, then we did the left hip. Now his left hip was totally destroyed because of infection and the whole upper tooth of the thigh was destroyed and the socket was gone as well. So the only surgery on the left side was what was possible was a proximally replaced hip. So what we did here was we replaced the whole thigh bone of two-thirds of the thigh bone and the special type of socket to prevent dislocation was used which we called as a dual mobility socket. So this left revision hip replacement was done one week after the right hip surgery. So now the patient was initially shot by more than 10 centimeters on the left side and now that shot thing has been reduced to 3.5 centimeters. So patient is walking perfectly fine after both the surgeries. Patient is doing well, his rehab is going on and we expect him that another four to six weeks time he should be walked with minimal aid or without support. So patient is extremely happy and is doing well. We at Malipal offer these kind of primary and redo or revision joint replacements because we have a good set up which includes the surgical team, the anesthetic, the nervous system team, the physiotherapist and the intensive care team management as well. I want to actually give thanks to Dr. Sunil Gini and what I would always recommend to my fellow friends who have orthopedic problems like me I would feel Dr. Gini would be the best doctor to see in Malipal Hospital. I like the hospitality, I like the doctors, I like everybody. Everyone was good to us and now that we are teachers I'm going back home to say thank you.


Okay. Hello, guys. Welcome to the last talk of the day. Also the last talk of the DEF CON 18. Well, I'm Benson and this is Jeremy. We actually are very surprised that you guys are still here.  Actually, the talk is about a mailware analysis. We first will introduce some very famous mailware instance that we have collected. And then we will explain how these mailware try to fight against anti-mailware solutions. And then we propose a method that we call mailware long time forensics that we try to analyze these forensic data on these mailwares. And then we try to do automatic clustering that help us to identify who is who after all. So as I have introduced, I'm Benson and then Jeremy and then another speaker, when actually went back to Santa Clara with one of our colleagues, he actually got so sick on the last day. So, Gwen was not here. First of all, we actually would like to introduce some Chinese characters. Actually, the character on the upper left corner exactly represents the term malicious in Chinese. And then the first mailware sample that we can introduce here is actually one of the malicious mailware that is very famous called Shops Theater. It actually help you generate programs that you can steal username and password from these famous common well-known applications such as Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, or Firefox. So it's more like a mailware generator. The next one is called Bee Frost. This one is also very famous. It's a very famous mailware. As you can see on this CNC console, it actually has 28 users connected back to this CNC console. So they are 28 victims. And then the one you see up here is a Chinese version. It actually derived from the Bee Frost. It originally derived from Bee Frost by Chinese hackers. And then these characters, if you notice that it's in traditional Chinese rather than simplified Chinese, so got localized by Taiwanese hackers. And then the block you see here, you can specify where is your CNC console, and then whether you want to pack the resulting mailware or not. You can also specify if you want to add more plugins such as keyloggers, so on and so forth. So it makes generating the mailware that help you steal, not make you infect victims to be infected. And then the second phrase we're going to introduce in the talk is called Loji. This one represents chicken. While in Devcom you see that the war of sheep, while in Chinese hacker community they don't call it sheep, they call it chicken. So you actually see a form of chicken instead of war of sheep. And this is the form of chicken. So obviously you know where it comes from, right? In the war of sheep we only show user name and password in Devcom, but in the form of chicken you get to see victims face through the webcam. Okay. And then the modern advanced mailware are so powerful that they have so many advanced features. These features including anti-blah-blah-blah features such as anti-virus going against the firewall and then going against your hips. And then it has more features if you are willing to pay more. So if you pay more you get to enjoy more features that you can put into your mailware that you generated. So it's more like a mailware as a service in this community. So you can see some features such as, so in addition to anti-virus fighting against anti-virus, fighting against firewall, fighting against the hips, you also have anti-vmware, anti-debugger, anti-API hookings. So these are the features that once you pay more you can enjoy. So now we will also talk about how they fight against the sandboxing environment, how they can detect whether they are in the sandboxing environment or not. These are the approaches that they use. The first one is how they can detect whether they are inside a VM or emulator environment. Usually one approach is that they would try to check the base address for this IDT and LDT because in a normal machine the IDT and LDT address starts with a something. If it's not starting with this address then it's probably in the VM environment. And they can also check for the devices because these devices in the VM environment or emulators, for example the CPU IDs tends to be very unique, the model name tends to be very unique, they also have a very specific PCI device. So if they check against these special hardware specifications they can recognize whether they are in the VM environment or emulator. And after all they can also try to launch these backdoor commands because these undocumented backdoor commands are only available when you are inside an emulator environment. So it's very easy for malware to recognize whether they are in a VM environment or emulator. And then in addition to VM emulator detection they can also check whether they are in a sandboxing windows environment or not. Because in a sandboxing windows environment you tend to have specific service, you tend to have a specific process name. So they can try to check whether the specific process or specific service name are there or not. Also they can also try to detect these kernel mode SSDT or the user mode API hook-in is presented or not. And then after all the last one is a very trivial one but works very effectively, they actually have a list of legitimate windows production ID because these vendors they have to have legal license of their windows. So they have a limited set. And this limited set being collected by hackers community so they know whether they are inside the sandbox or not simply by checking against these legitimate license. So we have introduced how modern malware try to detect whether they are in a sandbox VM emulating environment or not. And then what's even more is that they can also try to defeat you even when you try to have monitors even when you try to hook and then try to detect them. So what they can do is that they can restore the SSDT hook. They can also unload the notified routine of process of threat or image or registry. They can also unload this file system filter, restore the SSD hook, unload the TDI filter which is for networking and then they can also remove these NTFS attached device. So you can see there are a lot of things they can do try to unhook you and then try to neutralize your monitors. And then after all they are also some heaps, they try to implement their protection layer on the file system level. However these modern malware they can also try to launch direct road DICS SS through the DICS.SYS then they can bypass your file system protection. So what we try to propose in our talk is actually a behavior analysis. And then we try to do forensics. There are two approaches for behavior analysis. The one is called a network based approach which will not address in our talk because the approach that we take is actually a whole space. So for whole space approach we already mentioned. You either use a VM, you use a sandbox, but as you already know, malware can defeat these very easily. So what we do is actually use a whole space runtime forensics. So in our runtime forensics what we did is that we let the malware execute it and then we try to do forensics after it's already executed. So we collect the snapshot of the environment and then we try to identify the special features in that environment. And because we already let the malware execute we don't have to have monitors to see what happened to the malware during its executions. We also don't have to do hookings either through the API or not. So we have nothing for the malware to defeat us. So you might be wondering, so what kind of features do we try to get when we study this snapshot of an environment? There are three aspects of features that we try to collect. We try to analyze. The first one would be the installation remnants. These are the installation files after the malware tried to execute on the system. They either could be startup files. They either could be additional registry keys. We also study the memory layout. Try to find some memory block over suspicious DLLs. And then we also try to find if there are suspicious malicious behavior inside the systems. For example, a hidden process, a hidden file. So these are all the symptoms for malicious behavior where a legitimate software would not exhibit on your system normally. And then among the three aspects, we would further explain the one how we study memory layout because this one is the most hardest one to work with. So how we study the memory layout, first we have to identify which process is suspicious. So the way we identify this one is we first will fetch the process and service list and then we compare against the list, the process list that is already inside the system. And we find the difference between these two lists. And then how we fetch the process including we scan all the following tables as you can see up here on the slides. And then by doing this, we already identify the hidden process. We already identify the process that is very suspicious. Then we have to further dig into. We have to find which part of this process has the suspicious DLLs. So we will fetch the DLLs from the LLDR and then we analyze the memory layout. Also it structures, scan the code block. Try to find the code blocks which will explain later how we do this part to find the suspicious DLL. So what you see on the graph, normally a process will involve a lot of DLLs where they are implicitly linked. But if there is a DLL that is explicitly linked, it's very likely that it's a suspicious DLL. And that is how we identify a suspicious DLL. So that's what we call, we check the LDRL and then we scan the import table. Try to find the suspicious DLL. On the other hand, if the process actually does not load a DLL at wrong time, it actually does some code injection instead. Then our approach is that we will search the memory, try to find the suspicious P image. So in this flow chart you can see that, so let's review. We try to identify suspicious process and then we try to identify suspicious DLL. And then inside the suspicious DLL, we do our wrong time forensics, which includes LDR scan, P-packer signature check-in, code disassembly, string extraction, and then file inspection for hidden files. So these are the action items that we do for wrong time forensics once we already identify the suspicious memory layout. And then in the following slides, we will introduce some examples that we have collected in the world that use all these kind of anti-mailware techniques. The first one would be the B frost. You already seen in the previous slides. This one is a very famous bot that being used in Chinese hacker community. And it's Chinese name is called rainbow bridge. And the phrase is actually from its icon being used. So you can see the icon is a rainbow bridge. So that's its Chinese name. And this B frost, it uses code injection. So it's not DL injection. It uses code injection. So the only way you can find this suspicious code injection, you have to scan the memory and then try to find the P image. And then you will notice that it tried to do code injection into the IE browser, into IE browser. And then you will access a series of URLs. And the first one, if you notice that the first one you try to access is Microsoft.com. It actually tried to check if the network connectivity is available or not. And then you try to access some CNC servers. These CNC servers are actually named after Chinese vocabularies. For example, the one that we highlighted is actually called May I Know? You ask a question. May I Know? The phrase is number two. It's also a very famous one in Chinese technical community. It's called GhostNet. The original official report is actually released by Canadian researchers Shadows in the Cloud. And then from the sample, you can see that it tried to do, it tried to install itself as a system DL file into the system. And then it will connect to a CNC server. When we try to reverse these binary, we also identify the bottleneck commands that it can use. So you see all these bottleneck commands that these GhostNet can use. Notice that this GhostNet has nothing to do with the ghost rat malware. And then the string at the bottom, it's how we find out its original project name on that malware author's computer. It's actually called CXP. So it's the original project name before this malware being compiled. And the URL that we marked is actually one of the CNC servers that this malware sample tried to connect to. And this CNC server is also being mentioned in the Shadows in the Cloud report. Case number three is DFN666.net samples that we collected a few months ago through the mass SQL injection attack that had been launched recently, starting March. And these are massive SQL injection attack. These malware will use a shell, execute a hook, meaning that it will affect your exporter so that once you get infected, it will try to connect to all these online games and then try to steal your username and password for these online games. We have a very detailed story about this massive SQL injection on our blog. And this one is still ongoing nowadays. So even though it's first experience are back in March and it's still ongoing. So the last one will be the Zoo spot. It's also another malware that we study. And this one is a very famous one as well. You can see that it's actually tried to use the wind log on notify. So through the religious key and then you will infect every process you have on the system and then you will connect to a CNC server. Then you will become a bot. The Zoo spot is so famous that it even has its Wiki page. And one of the security vendors even named it called the king of bots. Its botnet size is kind of like a 3.6 million. So now we will go into how we do malware clustering. Because we already know so much about malware and then we know how to study them. We know how to do forensics on them. We know all their techniques. Then how do we do clustering? And then you might ask, you know, why do you have to do clustering? You already know it's a malware. So the reason behind this is very obvious. Then you can group those that are alike together. So the way we do malware clustering is we try to compute the similarity between these malware instance. And so our final result we will have to come up with a similarity matrix, which is a score that indicates how similar any two instance are compared between each other. So we will build a similarity matrix of the malware samples that we collected. So among the test sets that we have, it's more than 400 malware samples. We do forensic reports on all these malware samples. And then we try to extract the three significant features that we just mentioned. Installation rendments, memory layouts, and suspicious malware behaviors. And then all these features, they will have a score. They will have a score. And then for every malware that have this score, it will compare against another malware instance. And then you can get a similarity. And then we compare with every malware instance, you get a vector of similarities.  And this is how we come up with the matrix after all. And then we automate this process through our tool called Zero Box. So Zero Box will scan all the malware samples that we have, make it execute, and then study it, get a report, and then come up with the matrix, and then do the clustering. And then you will be able to group into different groups. In our test samples, we actually have 408 malware samples that we collected on the July, on the 8th of July this year. Because we have a product called Hackalert that can scan websites for Trojans that are already on that website. And then we collect all these malware samples. And then we also test against these malware samples on some existing antivirus. And the heat rays is not that really good. Some vendors have less than 20 percent. Some vendors can have 50 percent. So these malware are really new. And how we do the clustering is through the K-means clustering. But we will not get into too much details on why we choose this one. But the clustering mechanism we use is K-means clustering. And you see similarity matrix. And you see a lot of colors. The reason that it has a lot of colors is because we model these scores into RGBs. Because we want to visualize it. Humans have more feelings with pictures. So we try to visualize it.  Maybe you don't. But we will get into that. So this is the first block. Okay. Did you see any color patterns? Definitely you see a lot of color patterns. But actually there are some blocks that differentiate from other blocks. So for example, if you look at the second line, you see the upper corner, there are some gray colors.  And then it becomes more purple. And then it becomes more like pale white again. So it seems that you can see four blocks within these big blocks. Okay. So simply by visualizing it, you already can group these colors into four blocks. I hope that you guys are not feeling dizzy. Okay. Yeah. And actually every line, as we mentioned, it's a similarity vector. How these malware instance compare against other malware instance. So every line represents a malware instance. And then we use the antivirus to double check whether it's a malware or not. And you can see all these malware different namings used by these antivirus vendors. And then all these malware instance happen to be the same malware family called Zbot, Zeusbot. So even for the first upper block, it's all Zbot. And then even the second block is all Zbot. So a total of all these 26, these are all Zbot instance. And because there are some Zbot variants, instead of only believing in these antivirus, we actually try to do manual inspection by our own. We try to double check these are really Zbot malware instance. And then we try to find their versions so that we can tell which variants they are. And there are actually some different bot commands in these different Zbot binaries. So you can tell their different versions. So for version one, it has these commands. For version two, it has another set of commands. So after our manual inspection, we are able to identify different Zbot variants. So the upper three blocks all belongs to version two Zbot. And then the one on the bottom actually Zbot version one. So based on our experimental results, you see that out of 408 malware instance, we manually identify there are 52 Zbot malware instance. And then among these 52 Zbot malware instance, they can be clustered into four groups. One group is V1 variant and then three groups are V2 variants. When we compare these clustering results against antivirus results, they actually match with each other. So our malware clustering have the same accuracy as the antivirus. While these antivirus tools, they are only able to identify 26 of them. While we can automatically cluster the old 52 instance. So even though we don't have signatures, because we know how to cluster them, their colors tend to be similar, their colors tend to be similar, then we are able to say that, okay, these malware binary are actually a Zbot family. And then in that big block, we only look at the first block, right? So there are other blocks in that pictures. There are also other malware families including the Wundoo families and also the Bego families. Also a very famous malware. So these malware instance, they also tend to be very similar. They have the same color patterns. So the conclusion is that as you can see, the traditional hooking-based monitor approach already cannot handle the modern advanced mailwares. Because these modern advanced mailwares, they know how to do a lot of anti-mailwares techniques, including a lot of techniques we mentioned in previous slides. So instead, our approach is to do forensics after the malware already has been executed. So we only need a snapshot of the environment. And the experimental results also justify that because of our runtime forensics, we are able to collect a lot of significant features. These significant features help us to do automatic clustering of malware. So it also helps us to identify even unknown mailwares because we are able to cast them into the groups that they are more alike with. So that will end our talk. And if you have any questions, you actually can also write emails to us.  On average, we try to limit that into less than 30 minutes. Yeah. So he'd actually ask whether we use a normal PC or not or emulate the environment. Our answer is that we use a regular PC because as we mentioned, there are so many anti-VM, anti-emulator techniques, malware can use. And normally for us to restore all these regular PC boot-up until we finish all these forensics, it takes less than 30 minutes. Yeah. So we're taking a snapshot. After the malware already executed, we try to execute out our binary. So we try to launch our program. So then after we launch our program, we will look for all those three significant features we mentioned. So we studied these startup keys, all these installation files, all these memory layouts, and all these suspicious behaviors. It's still on a very early stage of prototype. Yeah. And we try to make it more mature so that we can release to the community. Yes. Yeah. And then we that's why we have to restore it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It's possible. This is why all these kind of forensic tools, they have to stay anonymous so that they cannot become one of the blacklist. Yeah. Once you make it into a product, then they will try to stop you right away when you try to install it. Yes. Yes. Definitely. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. We will try to make it public because we are still in a rush to finalizing it. Okay. Thank you very much. And then if you have any feedbacks, we welcome you to write us. Thank you. See you. Defcon lighting.


All right, perfect. How's the sound? Testing one, two, three, testing one, two, three. Awesome, perfect. All right, so I'm here to talk about pulsing governments for Hybrid Cloud. So hopefully those of you that are in the audience are interested in that, if not too bad. I'm still gonna talk. So let's get started. So a little bit about myself. My name's Sebastian Stadel. I'm the founder of an open source project called Scaler. We have a booth over there in the back, if you want to know more at the end of the talk. And I'm also, I sit on the advisory boards, both at Google and Microsoft. And so I have, from the Scaler open source project, as well as from Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine, I have a fairly good visibility into what's going on in the cloud world. And a lot of the customers we have at Scaler are deploying cloud in a hybrid model. So I have really good visibility in what types of, what are the things and the problems that people are running into when they're doing Hybrid Cloud. So this is really a talk about that. And so let's get started. All right, so first of all, I'd like to start with some of the problems that we run into in the Hybrid Cloud environment. And the first is that when you start having, when you start deploying applications and you start having workloads that are across public and private clouds or maybe across availability zones, et cetera, you run into a problem where you don't have any centralized visibility into what workloads are running where, whether they're development or production, et cetera. And so what you have is you don't have central IT that has centralized control or visibility. That's a problem already if you're on a single cloud. It just multiplies when you start having components and tiers running in different clouds. So that's the first fundamental problem that we see. The second problem we see is that when you give your developers self-service access to cloud, when it's already a problem when you're 10 developers using cloud, but when you get to 100 or 1,000 developers that are all doing their own thing on OpenStack, on Azure, you start having a ton of discrepancy between what everybody's doing. Some people might be leaving VMs running on and some people might not be tagging everything properly. Some people might be opening up security groups to the world. And you, as the IT manager, you don't have like very good visibility over all that.  And that means that if you're using public cloud, it's very expensive to keep stuff running all the time. It might be a security risk. It's really hard to manage all that. So that's the second problem. And the third problem that we run into in hybrid cloud environments is that you have to duplicate all the automation you're doing across cloud. If you have like a Jenkins pipeline, if you're building a Cassandra cluster, or if you're building like a Kubernetes, set of Kubernetes clusters, what happens is you're gonna have to build automation that deploys that to Azure, and you have to log into the Azure portal to do that. You have to do the same thing for OpenStack, same thing for all the different clouds you're using. So you end up having a lot of duplicate code. And that's a huge problem as well. So the Scalar Open Source Project tackles this in a couple of manners. First, Scalar offers a multi-cloud abstraction. We offer high-level declarative primitives that then map to all the cloud-specific workflows and cloud-specific objects. So you write against the Scalar API once, and then Scalar is in charge of translating those provision workflows to all of the different clouds you have. So all of the automation you're building for a specific cloud gets reusable and portable from one cloud to another. The second problem we tackle is when you've got a mess in an environment, you oftentimes wanna create rules to be able to put some order into all that. So Scalar has a very comprehensive policy framework which allows you to basically define by what rules your developers are gonna use the cloud. You might define some PCI environments that are audited in a certain manner. You might want to have some assistive stuff. And we'll get into that in more detail after. And the last thing is we tackle this with a very unique architecture which kinda looks like this. So this is the Scalar, everything here in red is the Scalar architecture, and it kinda shows you how all the pieces work together. So your end users, they talk to the Scalar Control Plane and they talk to that through the user interface or through a high level declarative API. When your end users hit the Scalar Control Plane, then what happens is we check that call those credentials against whatever identity framework you have such as Active Directory or Open LDAP or whatever you have that speaks to LDAP protocol. Once that authentication and authorization is done, then it goes to the second layer, which is the policy layer. So we'll check the user's requests against what policies you have set up in the system to be able to determine if yes, no, they're allowed to do that or if that request needs to be amended in some manner. After that, there's a whole bunch of other components of Scalar like building, provisioning, orchestration. There's also a desired state engine. All those are part of the Scalar Control Plane. Once that request comes in through the end user, then Scalar translates those to the cloud specific API calls to say public clouds like Azure or Amazon or to private clouds like CloudStack, but we're at the OpenStack seven, so OpenStack. Once those API calls are done, then that's used to be able to provision the infrastructure to run your applications. Now, larger organizations also want to integrate with third parties. So Scalar's got a very flexible framework based off of webhooks. So anytime there's a lifecycle event that happens in your infrastructure, we'll post a webhook. You can build your own handler, receive the payload from that webhook, and then integrate into HPCMDB, integrate into ServiceNow, integrate into all your stuff. You can pipe stuff into your finance systems, et cetera. So that's the architecture. So with Scalar, you get a beautiful user interface and a high level declarative API in this case here. This is an example of the Scalar dashboard, entirely JavaScript driven, it's very responsive. And when you can see here is at the top right, you can see that when your developers are provisioning stuff through the user interface, we'll surface the costs to them. So you're making sure your developers are always aware that whatever they're doing on public clouds or whatever resources they're using are actually incurring costs and just basically to empower them to make better financial decisions. You can also create a service catalog. And so it's kind of like Murano that was explained and introduced earlier today, except it's done in a multi-cloud manner. So anything that you define in the Scalar service catalog will be able to run on any cloud. And again, that's kind of ties into what I was talking about earlier, which is the portability of all the automation you're building. So in this case here, the service catalog that you can see has got some very popular open source software. There's lots of categories for your databases and load balancers. And you can create your own and extend that service catalog with your own stuff. All right, so let's talk about policies and governance a little bit. So what's unique in Scalar's policy model is that it's based on an inheritance model. So just like in the US federal government, you have federal law that applies to every state. You have state law that applies to every city and then you have municipal law that applies to everyone in that city. The Scalar inheritance model works the same way. You can define policies at the scalar scope that apply to everything below. Then inside of the scalar scope, you have multiple accounts and you can define policies at the account level that then apply to everything below that. And inside of accounts, you have environments in which you can set up policies that then trickle down. So you have this hierarchical policy system where if you're, for example, a big corporate entity, you can define policies at the scalar scope that will apply to everybody below you, but all your different lines of businesses might want to inherit, they will inherit your policies at the corporate level plus be able to add their own policies that are specific to that line of business. So that's one of the things that's unique to the Scalar policy framework. Another thing that's kind of like the Congress project from OpenStack, except in a multi-cloud manner, Scalar has reactive, assistive and preventative policies. I'll give a few examples of each.  So you want to allow them to go out and provision whatever infrastructure you want, but maybe after a certain period of time of running some infrastructure, you might want to say, hey, well, do you still need that infrastructure to run?  That's an example of a reactive policy where you're pruning out, you're kind of doing that garbage collection.  An assistive policy is when you help your developers do the right thing, kind of setting up guardrails, if that makes sense. That's when, for example, you want your developers to always tag stuff. You don't want to have, now you don't want to carry around your whip and kind of like beat them into submission to never forget about the five mandatory corporate tags. So an assistive policy will, for example, tell Scaler that anytime some infrastructure is provisioned on OpenStack, it needs to have some metadata that specifies who provisioned this particular resource, what business unit he's part of, is this development or production, what project was he working on, just like that you as the central admin, when you're looking at how your cloud's being used, you have a really good picture of how everything's being used. So an assistive policy is really like that when you want to help your users do the right thing, and in that case, it's by automatically tagging stuff. The third category of policy that we have are preventative policies.  For example, you might want to ensure that you might want to create a workload placement rule that forces deployment of something into a specific OpenStack network. So you'd be able to create a Scaler environment that has only access to OpenStack in a certain network so that by default, all the infrastructure provisioning always goes in that network. So again, work workload placement policies. If you're building an application for the German market, you might want to make sure that you only have ADLs Frankfurt and your local OpenStack. So those are the types of preventative policies that you can create with Scaler. And the last type of policies that's very unique to Scaler is that you can set up policies that are either intra-VM or extra-VM. Intra-VM means policies that apply to stuff that's inside the virtual machine. So let's say in a production environment, you might want to mandate that there's some intrusion detection system installed on it. Or you might want to mandate that it's monitored with new relic or something like that. Those are things that you want to have installed on the system inside the virtual machine. So Scaler allows you to define intra-VM policies. There's also extra-VM policies, which allows you, like the webhooks I was talking about earlier, which allows you to integrate the stuff your developers are doing with external systems.  So that's an example of policies going inside the VM and now kind of outside the VM with third-party services. All right, so this is what the user interface looks like when you want to set up an assisted policy. You can see here where we have Rackspace, we're using Rackspace as a public open stack. We clicked on the metadata policy that allows us on the right side to be able to specify some mandatory tags. So in this case here, like every resource that's provisioned through Scaler will be tagged with the environment, the owner, so the person, that provision, that workload. Like what tier it is. And we can extend that with any key values, name values that you want. So you can extend that with the line of business, et cetera. And the idea here is you really want to empower your developers while establishing governance. All right, so to kind of wrap this up, I wanna repeat that Scaler's license under the Apache 2.0 license. It's all on GitHub. If you go to github.com.scaler, you'll get the full source code there. We have a booth right over there, booth S3 ironically, like the Amazon project. And we'll be happy to give you an in depth demo and kind of show you how, answer any questions you might have. So it'll give you any demos, et cetera. And the very last thing I wanna talk about is if you saw the keynote this morning, Jonathan Chang came in to talk about what NASA JPL is doing on OpenStack. Jonathan will be giving an in depth talk on their usage of Scaler, OpenStack, Azure, and Amazon. So NASA has this hybrid cloud deployed and NASA is giving a talk tomorrow, Wednesday, right before noon about how they've done hybrid cloud and how they've integrated with Scaler and SaltStack and all the other technologies that they have internally. So with that before I get kicked out, I'd like to thank you all for your time. And if there's any questions, I'll step off right here and be able to take them. But if there's any questions right now, just raise your hand. Good, all right, so I'll just step off and do that. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you.


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