Host of Screen Time Reset. And welcome to our second episode today. On the first episode I explained the premise of the show, which I'm going to recap briefly because I forgot to mention an important point that's relevant to today's show. So basically the idea is that especially in the last 10 years we've fallen into this relationship with screens and tech where we're consuming maybe more than we ever thought or intended. We're starting to notice some of the consequences in our own life and research is also coming out. So this is new information. It's time for us to reassess our relationship with tech and create a conscious relationship where we really try to harness the benefits and minimize the harms. I also mentioned that I'm going to be focusing on families and children to start with for two reasons. First, that children are more susceptible to tech because they don't have the prefrontal cortex development to exercise self-control to say no. And second, because they're more sensitive to the effects of tech. Now that's what I didn't explain last time that I want to briefly touch on today. They're more sensitive to the effects of technology because they're still developing their bodies, their minds, and their nervous systems. And as we develop we're very sensitive to stimuli, external stimuli and environmental stimuli and tech is incredibly stimulative so it has a very profound impact on them. So those are the two reasons that this show will start by focusing on kids and families. And now I want to transition into the topic for today's episode which is the Waldorf education system and how it sets kids up for success in the digital age. And how this became interesting to me is when I started researching this topic I got interested into it and I got my research cap on and was digging for information and was finding a number of these harms and ways that tech can interrupt healthy child development. But there was a complete mismatch with what the media was talking about. There was still so much excitement about educational apps, individualized learning, which is fine. Not that there are no merits to that, but it didn't feel very balanced. So this disconnect made me question myself and wonder if I had somehow created this self-referential negative research bubble and what really gave me confidence that I wasn't making it up and that I was onto something was reading an article about technology executives and how there was a trend among them that they were shielding their own kids from excessive technology. So I got very interested in that because these are the parents in the know. They understand the tech industry better than the rest of us, where it's going, how it's affecting the economy, the skills you need to succeed in this tech world that we're all living in. And so it was really fascinating to me that a bunch of them were sending their children to Waldorf because it takes a tech-light approach and clearly they were sending their kids there because they felt like it was giving them advantages for the digital age. So that's what I want to explore in this episode is how Waldorf in particular and a tech-light approach more generally can actually confer benefits to kids in the digital age through first allowing them to take better advantages of the unique opportunities and tools that we have now and I believe honing children's human-competitive advantages, which are the things humans do better than computers, it's a key part of that. And the second piece is that it also you need to prepare kids to avoid the growing number of traps that line our digital landscape. So today to talk more about Waldorf and what it provides for children and how that's relevant in this digital age, I am very pleased and happy to welcome my two guests today. We're both teachers at the Honolulu Waldorf School, Yuka Otaka Bryce, who teaches second graders and Alicia Maley Thaduk, who teaches sixth graders at the Waldorf Middle School. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having us. Absolutely. So my first question is if you would just please explain to me and the audience what Waldorf's philosophy surrounding technology and education is. So with Waldorf education and our tech approach it really goes hand in hand with each other. It's sort of complement each other. With the Waldorf philosophy, I mean it's been a global independent school movement that's been happening for like a hundred years now, so it's sort of really deeply rooted. But what I love about it is it sort of creates this merge of academics and arts, experiential hands-on learning, and kind of creates a very strong foundation for the children of building creativity, building critical thinking skills through this foundation of imagination, and creating lifelong learners. And what's really exciting is with our education system, it's such an active educational process where the children are really deeply engaged with all of them themselves. And technology tends to be a passive experience where they're just sort of receiving information or receiving images, and so it contradicts what we're trying to do with the children. And so in order to have that. Sorry, especially at younger ages, right? I know previously we talked a little bit about development, right, and the developmentally appropriate tact that you take at Waldorf. Could you tell us a little bit about that? Right. So the curriculum is all catered towards the individual needs of the children and where they are at developmental stages. So it's really important that we bring technology at those developmental stages appropriately well. And so they need sort of a strong, moral, social understanding and sense of responsibility before they can engage in the cyber world to become a digital citizen in the right way. Could I add something to that, Yuka? Absolutely. You know, one of the things that we're looking at when we talk about the appropriate and the appropriate time to bring something is, for instance, in second grade. When you look at a second grader's development, you're looking at somebody that's starting to toil with these ideas of morality. So Yuka's bringing fables, the silliness, these stories of the saints, you know, something that really grounds people and gives the kids something to enact with, something that really means something to them. Instead of like you're referencing with technology, you know, you can put a child on an iPad and all of a sudden they're having information put on them. So no matter what the developmental age, what we're trying to work with is the actual life of the child. When do they need to build social morality? How can we work with that instead of breaking everything up and making it very industrialized? Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. That does. Yeah. Yeah. So when do you guys see as the appropriate time to incorporate more technology and when you do bring technology into the classroom, how do you do that? And what do you see as the biggest benefits that technology brings to children? Well, there's a couple different approaches. So there are some Waldorf schools that will have children in eighth grade start to use technology, but before they do, they'll actually have them take apart a computer and completely rebuild it. You know, we do see in the seventh and eighth grade children beginning to type certain papers. So we try to work with them in that way, but more so, it's in the high school. So when you're looking at the high school, you don't want to just immerse the children immediately into, here's a screen, figure it out, although the way the world is today, they do figure it out in a heartbeat, no matter how old they are. A lot younger often. Right. Yeah. How many three-year-olds do you see with a phone watching something? So it's really a tool in the high school, and it is a tool of progress, right? It is a tool to serve them in their education as opposed to a tool to teach them. And you talked about them constructing the computer. What's the idea behind that? Why do you do that before they use it a lot? So not every school does that, but it's certainly something that I find very compelling. The idea is that the study of the eighth grade is a lot about the industrial revolution. So really looking outward into the world and becoming a global citizen. So the idea in response to the industrial revolution is to have these deconstructed, metallic plastic pieces and figure out how to put them together. So it's the ultimate jigsaw puzzle. And once a child goes through that process and they can turn it on and see how it works, well, that completely shifts your thinking of a computer. You've put it together.  The machine is not the master over you. I think that's so important. Yeah. It's a really powerful lesson. I like that. Yeah. My last guests were veteran teachers from the Virginia Public School System, and they had mentioned noticing this, that it's a lot harder to get students to come up with their own opinions or arguments than they said that actually a lot of long-time teachers are noticing the same thing. And I found that really shocking because it's so fundamental, I mean to come up with your own opinions. And I think the other reason that it's a little shocking to me is this issue of autonomy. I mean, if you're not coming up with your opinions, then you're someone else's puppet kind of, right? You have someone else's opinions, which is a bit scary. And a year or two ago, I had the opportunity to go to a Waldorf open house on Maui and it was there that I learned that Rudolf Steiner actually started Waldorf in part in response to World War I. He thought that propaganda was a huge problem and that the Europeans were sort of goaded by propaganda into this super destructive, unfortunate and unnecessary war. So he wanted to create an education system of independent critical thinkers that would be more resistant to propaganda, which I thought first of all was really cool, what a great reason to start a type of school. And second of all, it's so relevant today in this age of fake news, hyperpartisan reporting on both sides. So could you talk a little bit about how Waldorf, starting at a young age, creates and promotes and cultivates the foundations for children to be independent critical thinkers? Yeah. I love this one. I know you can just come onto our campus and walk into a Waldorf kindergarten and you see displayed out on the shelf these sort of simple nature-based open-ended toys. So a simple red silk becomes an extravagant cape or a butterfly wing. And you allow the children to create their own inner story. But as screens, you're participating in someone else's story. And consuming someone else's story. You're consuming someone else's story. Exactly. And so we had to continue giving these children opportunities to create their own stories. And in that way, we have a play-based sort of education system in the younger grades where they have to self-initiate their play. And so here so many children say, I'm bored, I'm bored, give me something to do because they're so used to being entertained and constantly given what they're supposed to be thinking from the outside. And so this self-initiated play is so important in those younger grades. And it gives them that sense of independence. It gives them that control and power in their situation. And another thing is if you walk around the Waldorf schools, you hear the teachers telling oral stories. So this strong, rich, oral tradition of passing down knowledge from one generation to generation is still really relevant for us because you tell a child a story, they have to take that, process it in their auditory senses, and create their own inner pictures. And that's work. You have to work at creating those inner pictures, and with those inner pictures is this capacity that is very important that you'll touch upon later. But I think another aspect that I really feel that it creates this quiet confidence in children is that the children are asked to create their own textbooks. So instead of these predigested material that's presented beautifully in this textbook where they have to memorize these isolated facts, we're asking the children to create something within themselves, to think for themselves, to integrate what knowledge they have received and output it into something for us to see and display. And I think when you give a child a blank canvas and a blank paper every single day to tell us, to show us their learning, I mean they come out into the world, any problem is solvable, anything is doable, they have this initiative and this innovation. I love that point about them creating their own pictures is work, because if you see kids listening to a story, that doesn't look like work, but it is for them. It's so much more work to have to create your own picture in your mind than to just see a picture and consume it. To me that really, that imagination which can often be I think undervalued, I used to I think undervalued education, people that are more rational, logical thinker, it seems like more of a thrill perk, but it strikes me now that that's coming up with your own opinion. There's a similarity that you have to come up with these things inside of yourself and maybe we used to take it for granted, but in this day and age with what teachers are reporting, we can't anymore and it's really critical. I think we need to take a break, but we will be right back. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. My show is based on my book also titled Beyond the Lines and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership and finding greatness. I interview guests who are successful in business, sports and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11 a.m. Aloha. Hi, I'm Lisa Kimura, I'm the host of Family Affairs on Think Tech, Hawaii. Join us every Tuesday at 11 a.m. to talk about the issues that really matter. Everything from policies that need to be changed in Hawaii to the fact that we need better gender equality so that we can all have a better shot. Again, join us every Tuesday at 11 on Think Tech, Hawaii for Family Affairs. Aloha. Hi, and we are back. Did you have something that you wanted to add to that last one you were talking about about information or imagination? Yeah, I think one of the really important things to think of is imagination is just not only in the realm of the early childhood, the younger grades. It actually is a transformative property. So as we look at this idea of inner picturing, of intersensing, of holding an image or a story, what ends up happening as a child gets older, so I'm in the middle school, is now children are able to take a concept like physics, take these experiments that are being demonstrated and they're able to imagine and connect them in a conceptual way to what's in the world. So this is really the transformation of imagination, right? Right. So when we go out into the adult world, having that facet, that strength of your life knowing that you have that ability to create an inner picture means that you're an inherent problem solver. You're somebody that can connect the dots and all of that starts with really embracing imagination. And that's once again, I don't think it's necessarily intuitive to a lot of people that those little connections between different conceptual pieces, that's actually like a leap of imagination in a sense. Yeah, absolutely. And so it's so foundational. Absolutely. And that reminds me, Yuka, you had talked about how you encourage at Waldorf in the elementary school kids not to consume media during the week. Can you tell us about that? Yes. So the storytelling that we provide is actually a vessel of their learning. So they might learn the story of the golden goose and the letter G emerges, that letter sound coming out through that experience in the first grade. And what happens with those stories is we let them kind of settle into their sleep life and really penetrate deeper into themselves. And it cannot happen if it's competing with sort of these fast paced, really dense images that they see on the screens, it completely gets wiped away. And so to honor sort of their learning and to honor this space of childhood, we really want to let those maybe media related activities settle for something on the weekend. Yeah, that idea of competition I think is really powerful and something that I've learned about our memories is the more emotionally charged experiences, they're sort of higher up in the pecking order of our memory when we're going to sleep. And media is so good at hitting our emotions. I mean, there are people paid a lot of money with high budgets. And so little kids for the first time creating pictures in their mind, yeah, that's not going to be able to compete. And so I really resonated with that. And that also made me think of something that Alicia had said about the freedom that a Waldorf parent felt because their child was now in an environment where the norm was not to watch media all the time during the week. Can you talk a little bit more about the freedom that parents feel and the value of a community that's kind of on board? Yeah, it's interesting because you think about we observe other schools that are walking around where our children are in the same neighborhood and it's so fascinating to see this difference in the children and the way that they engage with the world. So particularly one thing I notice with my class is they would much rather be at the beach hanging out together.  And how often do you see kids nowadays that sit in a room, in the same room and just text each other? So their preference is really to have an agreement that they want to hang out in person. Last year my class actually made their own technology agreements which was really interesting to see fifth graders agree that there was a need for it. Because they recognized that they were at this valuable age of childhood and they wanted to play. They wanted to be with each other. And I think the media, by making that agreement, it really takes a lot of that away from them. And they recognize that in a deep level how much they need each other as people. Yeah. And because it's so, I feel like a lot of parents are tackling this issue alone but it really is a community issue and so even if there was a school that was a little more tech liberal just the value of the fact that your class discusses what they think is appropriate and that the parents in the school are kind of working together, I think there's so much value in that across the spectrum of tech light to more tech liberal. And to make a shared agreement. It can be really iffy when we talk about technology because there's such a big split in the way we raise children and it's so easy to make somebody feel like they're a villain for texting somebody or letting their kids watch a movie or for not having their kids on a screen that they're behind, you know, there's so much of the back and forth. So I think no matter what realm you're coming from the most important thing is that you do create a community agreement. Yeah. A conversation. Right. A shared value. And your point about how your kids would rather hang out in person makes me wonder, I mean, one of the most I think obvious and well accepted negative consequences of tech is that kids are not as good at interpersonal skills. They can't make eye contact in the same way I was working for State Senator Russell Ruderman last year and certainly our business leaders were complaining about that. They'd hire someone they can't even make small talk with a customer, right? So do you think that Waldorf students retain more interpersonal skills and how do you see that? Oh, absolutely. We do a lot of service work out in the community. And one of the things I see is the kids when they're walking they look at every person that they walk by they look them in the eye, they say, hello, thank you. They help people cross streets. They do all of these things that we idealize and hope for our children that they would be that polite. And a lot of that does come from the fact that they're used to looking each other in the eye. We had an open house not too long ago and I had some of my sixth graders host, you know, walk around new parents around the school and it was so astounding.  And I actually had one parent ask me who was from outside of our community afterward did you pay them to say those things? How do you get them to look you in the eyes? And it was stunning because it's so atypical to have a child that really wants to engage and as far as looking long-term as an employer I would think you would want somebody that can look you in the eyes of somebody that walks into the room. Absolutely, they're asking for it and those independent critical thinking and those interpersonal skills those are some of the core what I call these human competitive advantages things we do better than computers and so things students are going to have to be relevant in the digital age when you're competing with AI and automation. Just to add to the interpersonal I think what it also builds is this capacity for collaboration and to be able to work with other human individuals and to work through problems together. Definitely. We need more collaboration to tackle on some of the issues that we have. Absolutely. One point I want to touch on quickly I wish I had more time I'll get to this more future episodes is the mental health question and then I'll ask you guys to wrap up with some suggestions and you know just the role that social media plays and cyber bullying and also these negative messages do you think that there are do you think that there are benefits or what do you think about the mental health question and how tech light can aid? I think it's multifaceted because I think of small children that are given technology that long-term range. When you give your child a device what you're doing is you're training them to have a sense of entitlement they don't have to imagine think through play what they have is something that you push a button and it does something for you so long-term what are we looking at in terms of mental health in children one you have children that have this kind of inbred sense of entitlement but even further forward we're now looking at how dopamine receptors are afforded by technology so if you're doing that with your children and allowing that opportunity to occur and re-occur well they become addicted to that feeling and they also become addicted to the convenience of never having to think for themselves of never having to move out of a place of boredom you know they aren't afforded that opportunity to use their imagination to create something to create fun and like you guys are saying kids won't know what to do and things boring and they're disengaged so I think that on top of the cyber bullying definitely is contributing I wish we could talk about that longer can you guys obviously sending students to your children to Waldorf is one thing you can do but for parents what are other things that parents can do to help foster imagination and to help their children thrive in this digital world there's so many ways these activities that I'm going to suggest not only minimize that harmful exposure but also builds a one-on-one connection with your child and so ways that parents can do this on a weekly daily basis is telling them stories from their day even if it's reading from a chapter but they're creating their inner pictures they're creating that sense of imagination giving them sort of open-ended toys and sort of artistic materials that they can kind of grapple with whether it be sculpting or whether it be drawing or painting that gives them sort of this initiative and a sense of empowerment let them be bored let them work that boredom that's an important one it's absolutely necessary and I think you can definitely see the effects of how children are so in tune with the vibrations of the world so instead of giving that media-dense vibration let them be in nature experience and sort of be in tune with their environment we have the ocean here that they can the endless possibilities of sand play and being out there with your family I think it's just such a great opportunity I think when we talk about family too you know look at your greater family you know who is your community around you that you can create an agreement with that you can create a beach day with that you can decide how you use technology how often are your teenagers going to be communicating with each other what's reasonable what images do we want our kids to see those are all great things that as a community and a family we can create a shared agreement and really help to build our kids up and I really feel that if you give them less they grow more and I think like we said we want to create creators for our society not just consumers absolutely and for parents that are interested to learn more about Waldorf how can they do that we feature some tours every Tuesday Tuesday mornings and that's an open tour we love to invite anyone we can have sometimes we have some students that will host we have a great veteran teacher that walks everyone around and actually tonight we have an open house that is a journey through the grades so they'll get an opportunity to actually experience Waldorf education with no technology and see how well they can do at trigonometry and physics well that's great thank you guys so much for being on and letting us get a better understanding of how Waldorf creates imagination in children and how that links to higher conceptual thinking and independent thinking and critical thinking which we all agree are such important skills as well as the interpersonal skills those abilities to look each other in the eye to cooperate as you pointed out Yuka I think that's really helpful for understanding and the community value again to parents that parents don't feel the same pressure that they feel more free because there's this open discussion and agreements going on in the school about a healthy amount of tech and media exposure that's all amazing and and I would just add connecting to what you guys said about the power of community in the school I wanted to remind my audience that this month I will be starting a facebook group for parents who want to elevate this issue at their school if you're interested please send me an email at screen time reset at gmail.com Waldorf is already doing it other schools can too again even if you're further on the liberal side of tech a few parents working together can really help elevate this issue and help make healthier a healthier culture working with their school for all of the students so I'd love if you would email me if you're a parent who is interested in being a part of that and I would like to thank you both so much for being here and thank you the audience for spending the time out of your busy day to listen to this very I believe very important topic that's affecting kids all over the country and the world thank you so much and till next time thanks Lauren


Or we can we can go up to the cog up top and again into the accounting and settings and then on the expenses tab over here We want to make sure that that this and I think it is now checked off by default that we're gonna say Track billable expense expenses and items to income So you have a single account or in multiple accounts now This gives you a little bit more flexibility because again you would think that it should now pull in to an income account But it's still not completely flexible because like if I go back in here And I look at that and I look at that item right there And And if I look at it, I still don't have a product or service This is the thing right here that usually allows us to tell more specifically which income account It's gonna hit so QuickBooks may still have to use kind of like a generic Income account for all the billable items that it's pulling over into the invoice which might be fine But again, we don't have that that as much Control as we do if we were able to use items in order to create, you know The invoices in the sales receipts So let's do it again and let's see the difference. I'm gonna close this out and then I'm gonna go I'm gonna go back to the first tab again, and let's make another one I'm gonna go to the plus button and I'm gonna do another check up top another check again and Repeat a similar process office depot out of the checking account same date numbers correct now It's trying to memorize the last transaction, which is nice this time. Let's make it for 200 just to switch things up a bit I'm gonna make it billable again, but now I've changed the options and this time I'm gonna put it to that 3005 which was the sub The sub customers. Let's do it to that one this time. And so that looks good Let's save it and close it. This is gonna record a decrease to the checking account the other side going into supplies That's good. The point we want is to pull it into the billable item After that, so I'm gonna save it and close it and then let's make an invoice I won't check the transaction because we should the transaction is fairly obvious on that one Let's go to the invoice now and say we went to job 3005 3005 so now it wants to pull that in again So we're gonna say alright add that add that one over poor Favore and then Everything looks good. Notice that down here It's still I should have added in the description that it was office supply so it pulls over so I'm gonna put supplies here So that they can see the description notice again though It doesn't give us as much control But hopefully even though I don't have an item quick books can then apply it to an income account at least picking an income account To put it to as opposed to Decreasing the expense account so that's gonna be the goal this will increase accounts receivable the other side Hopefully go into an income account that quick books is gonna make up not based on the item But based on the fact that we said it was billable and we want you to put it into an income account So let's save it and close it Go to the tab to the right and then run it and then if I go into the a to the r We can see this one went up that looks good Let's go back and then tab to the right and run it Actually, let's go back to the reports and then run it and then now you've got this other income account So they made up an income account billable expense income account So that's nice, but again you don't have a lot of flexibility to change that that might be more than fine though You might say I don't need any more flexibility for that as long as it's in an income account I'm happy, but if you needed more flexibility than that You'd need to come up with a system where you can use items to apply to the accounts You want possibly that being like services for example Now another method that you can try here is to set up an item But it's a little bit more complex for most people I think to when they're when they're setting it up But if you wanted a little more control You can try when you're entering the expense or check side of things for example to instead of Just adding a category here. You can try to add an item So let's say you're paying the same supplies expense you can basically set up the item and say I'm gonna make a new item down below and I want it to be like a non inventory item so that it's not tracking the units of inventory But it's gonna have both and like an expense side of things and as well as a sale side of things And then if you were to say that the item Name is gonna be supplies Let's say that you're gonna pull over and then the category We'll keep the category there. I'm gonna put this description supplies I'm not gonna put an amount here because I'm gonna populate the amount every time and then on the income Maybe I want it to go to services and that gives me the control That's where the control is I can put it to services as opposed to the billable income or whatever they use I'll say it's non taxable. So I could say it's a non taxable item and Then on the purchasing side of things I'm gonna have a cost. I won't put the cost here But the purchase account instead of going to purchases Account or like cost a good sold or something like that. I'm gonna put it to supplies Expense so let's say supplies Office supplies or I'll just put it to supplies I think we've been using and then I won't have a preferred vendor. So now when I buy Supplies from office depot I can save this and I can then pull it in and I'm not gonna use The category and just record it to office supplies But rather I'm gonna use the items and then I'm gonna make it a billable item And the item is driving it on the cost side to post it to the right account Which is supplies and then when I pull it over to the income account The item now allows us to assign the proper item account We want to use which was the revenue account that we used So that's a workaround that could be that could be useful But I think it's also got its own problems because of then obviously you have to use items as opposed to categories It also causes some issues with the bank feeds because if you're Populating your payments through the bank fees like many small companies will it's more difficult to you to add an item in That case you can you only have the capacity possibly to add the account So that's a but that's a method that could be useful For some people if you want more control about the income account and to try to use the items in Conjunction with the billable thing So just an idea to think about I won't record this now though So I'm gonna say I'm gonna say do you want to leave without saving? I'm gonna say yes Now the other thing we just touched on is the differences between if I go into the sales tab and the customers We've got the customers that we set up in a prior presentation as a Sub-customer or a job would be the name from the old or the other version QuickBooks desktop version And we saw that we can run reports, you know by customer in here And then we also have the projects which work in a similar fashion although you can use them together because you might have like a Customer and then an overarching job for them or a department and then you might have the projects attached to Like a sub-customer or job for example, but just to look at the projects over here We we then Had some information for the project which we mainly did to project number two So if I go into project number two now, we've got the information related to it with the the income and Expenses that were assigned to project number two and then it gives our recap. We have our reports We've got the transactions that we can see here invoices The billable expense to check and the time charge time activity that we can look at project reports If we want to see the reports themselves, we can have the attachments over here and if I went into the reports the overall reports Then I can look at we have this project Project profitability summary that you could you could run that as well from we'll take it from 010123 to 1231 23 and run that so you also have, you know, this report that you can take a look at So the projects this job cost kind of system is a whole a whole nother thing We do have courses on that in and of themselves Be careful when you're thinking about the different tools that you can use you got all these cool tools now You've got jobs which are now sub customers with and you also have now the the class tracking location tracking tags and Now the projects tools


Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Davis Matic of sports grid And I'm wearing my green the green jacket that somebody's gonna win this weekend. Davis. What's up, man? Yeah, someone's gonna win it I have I have my hopes and my dreams and my wishes locked in, you know, this this really is the Super Bowl for Golf betting, you know, we have all all the tools everything you guys need over at daily roto We'll have all of you know that constant content come into you guys on sports grid So just super super excited for the Masters this week tradition Unlike any other very very excited for the Masters here this weekend And what I'm even more excited about is there's no long shot here in any of your picks today Like all of these guys are guys that actually have a legitimate chance to win And we begin with Bryson DeChambeau because you know how badly Bryson wants this one and The monster off the tee. Why do you think he'll have success where yes, of course Being able to hit the ball 500 yards is is helpful to Masters, but it's not everything Why do you think that he'll have success here this weekend at Augusta? So the simplest way that I can explain why Bryson offers great odds to win is that he plays Golf like we play daily fantasy, right? He doesn't care about finishing 10th. All he cares about is finishing first That's all that matters. So, you know, he's taking every aggressive line.  He is pin hunting. You know, he doesn't care Oh, if I missed this shot, it's going in the water If I missed this shot, I'm going for double bogey and we will see Bryson at some events, right? The the famous event where he put up the 10 on the scorecard and hit it into the water twice Like we will see him do that but Comparing Bryson to John Rom, Justin Thomas, Justin Johnson, all those guys at the top of the board I think he can play just as good, if not better But he has the most optimized style of golf to winning these events So at 11 to 1 on the fan dual sports book He is my pick at the at the very top of the board. It's a good point, right? Bryson's gonna just take chance at the chance at the chance and well He may let you down certainly as long offers in the field You know, he's gonna go for it man And there's something to that Bryson just going at it and taking that risk He's successful. He's gonna win this thing and there's a lot more golfers that are just cautious that just want to survive and hang on till Sunday Bryson's gonna take every opportunity to try to push a get a lead and hold that lead We'll see if he can do it here at Augusta this weekend Up next for us we talk about him in every major because he's gonna win one soon enough, right? Alexander Shafley, we talked to Alexander like I said literally every major because When he wins it Davis you need to make sure you have that ticket in and that's why we're gonna do this every single month During golf season. Why is the master is Xander's next best chance? Yeah, so Xander is the world number six He has won at least one tournament every year for the last five years including multiples of you know top fives top tens He is completely completely class, right? I don't know anyone who doesn't like Xander who doesn't think he's great But because this is a major championship because it's a very strong field Fandals, you know hanging out the the 20 to 1 number there on him And you know, I would probably think he should be closer to 13 to 1 14 to 1 Something like that the way that these betting markets are priced and his game is a great fit for Augusta as well long off the tee He's very strong with his long irons. His short game is better over the last, you know 22 years the last You know 50 rounds than it has been In years prior. So I think it's a matter of if not when was Xander, you know kind of similar to like calling more a cow I like calling more a cow has a major Xander doesn't yet Xander is gonna get one and when he gets one He will be 10 to 1 11 to 1 12 to 1 to win these events in the future So want to get on this number, you know before the good numbers go away I think that makes sense It's inevitable that Xander is going to win a major and it's just when is it going to happen and to continue to get it At around 21 21 to 1 whatever it whatever it is now It makes sense because soon as he wins one you're right He's proven that he could do it He can get over the hump and that number's gonna just drop it half essentially So Xander here this week with the best golfers in the world number six at the moment You're getting even over 21. It's well. We're taking a shot on here at Augusta One final golfer to get to it's another one of your favorites another one of the favorites I think across the board is Patrick Cantlay Cantlay right around this number that Xander was at as well As we said no long shot here for you this week Cantlay sneaks into your top three always somebody that I am So you make it you make a great point, Greg Which is there are no long shots on my card this week and that's that's done for a reason You know, we're gonna bet long shots the Valero Texas open We're gonna bet long shots at the Byron Nelson We are not gonna bet long shots at the Masters and we're not really gonna bet them at any of the major Championships because when you look at who wins major championships It's pretty much always the best guys in the game, you know, the fields are very strong The courses are very difficult guys really have to be playing at their absolute peak to get there So we have Bryson we have Xander and of course we had to round the card out with Cantlay who is the world number 10 right now Our friends over at data golf have him even slightly Better than that if I was actually gonna tell people they only want to make one bet this week They don't really like Bryson. They don't like the number on Xander I would have them put it in there on Cantlay You can get a slightly better number on him on the Fandall sports book I saw at one point. He was as low as 24 to 1 there I think it's back at 22 to 1 now But can't like basically the exact same bucket is Xander incredibly strong off the tee Incredibly strong with the long irons now. He's not a very good putter But the way that they have Augusta structured No one is gonna put well at Augusta right because that those greens are so fast They're so slick. It's just so hard for anyone to have a great putting performance there So I think that kind of mitigates some of what Cantlay does poorly and it really emphasizes what he does well So he is the he's the the davis maddock gold star You know lock of the week patrick cantlay at uh at augusta if you have one player You're going to bet on this week according to davis maddock. It's patrick cantlay Yes, Xander's a good bet obviously Bryson's one of the best in the world But the gold star whatever circle in red highlighted in yellow The guy that you need to bet on this week according to davis Is patrick cantlay thought it was gonna be corey conners. I was wrong Dave's maddock. We appreciate the time and uh, good luck this weekend. I'm excited as I said I was expecting a little corey conner scotty cheffler push. We didn't get it this week. Maybe next week Yeah, we will definitely be playing corey conners and scotty cheffler in our dfs line. I'm son fandom You know no no doubt about that but in terms of of winning this event We got to stick to the top of the board and also, you know, we really need bryson to justify How you know confident he was coming into the event last year, right? You know, he was telling everyone Oh, it's about a par 67 to me and uh, you know, so he's got uh, he's got some big words to back up And I think that uh, I think he will get it done this week in augusta Bryson's always got big words. He's got a big stick that he hits as well Can he back it up this weekend on the masters the best tournament a super bowl of golf We'll find out in just a few days time for davis maddock. I'm greg sossman. Thank you so much for joining us And we'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the fanzill hurry up


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Thank you again for joining us for this future work. So what I'm gonna do now is introduce our speaker. I'm so excited because I get to work with this gentleman, Kevin Mulholley. Our topic today is security and privacy in today's IT environment. Kevin is a certified, four-time certified plus success professional with technical and administrative experience across a wide range of software, hardware, network and IoT solutions. Kevin does it all. He is the Customs Success Manager here at TechSoup. But Kevin, I'm so excited that they get to hear from you today because I hear from you all the time. I'm always learned from you. So welcome, Kevin. And I look forward to your presentation. That was such a nice intro. It's always a pleasure working with you. As Aretha said, my name is Kevin Mulholley. I'm a technical customer success manager here at TechSoup. I'm a multi-Microsoft certified professional. I have experience across a wide range of hardware, software, networking, IoT environments. And today I'm going to be talking to you a little bit about security and privacy in today's IT environment. So for the sake of time here, I've condensed this down to some really simple, lower level concepts, but I still think it's enough for individuals to be able to successfully begin to roadmap and discuss internally strategies surrounding security and privacy. So a quick agenda of what I'm going to be overviewing here. I'm going to start first by taking a look at the numbers, specifically around a couple of things you may have heard of, fishing and ransomware. The numbers don't lie. That's a popular expression. And then in case of both fishing and ransomware, the numbers are actually a little bit concerning. Then I'm going to move into a discussion of basic security steps you can take around the areas where you can most easily engage with the applications and technologies that you're using. I'm then going to switch the discussion to privacy and also how privacy differs from security. They do go hand in hand to a degree, but understanding that privacy and security can also, and in some cases should be treated as separate components is a good way to approach this. And then we'll be opening up to Q&A. So let's hear, let's start with some numbers surrounding fishing and spoofing email statistics. As you can see here, nearly 96% of fishing attacks are conducted using email. 77% of organizations faced business email compromise in 2021. The average cost of a BEC exploit was $5.96 million. Last year, 83% of organizations have faced a successful email-based fishing attack. 39% of individuals have said they've received at least one suspicious email. I got one this morning and 15% of individuals say they received an email impersonating someone in their organization. Ransomware, this is another thing which if you've paid any attention to the news in the last couple of years has gone from something that was done is almost a one-off type of attack to essentially something that's actually called ransomware as a service. Frightening that is there are organizations that do this as a profession. Some of the effects of ransomware, the average downtime accompanying experiences after a ransomware attack is 22 days. Our recent survey found that 37% of responded organizations were affected by ransomware attacks in the last year. The largest ransomware payout was made by an insurance company for $40 million that actually could be corrected. I believe the largest ransomware was just paid out earlier this year at the tune of $70 million. The average ransomware fee requested has increased from 5,000 in 2018 to around 200,000 in 2022. So again, for the sake of time, what are some basic things that we can do to defend ourselves? As mentioned in the earlier slide surrounding email phishing and spam is protecting our email. Email is the lifeblood for a lot of people. I'm not an email guy, but I do use email like most people in corporate environments and having a good policy in place and a good strategy in place for addressing potentially malicious email is critical. Identity, what is an identity?  We have an identity as individuals. We have an identity within a corporation or an organization. Our identity there operates within the digital space. Protecting that identity in the digital space is critical. As you'll see here, there's a couple of different logos here. These particular products are, which I will speak of later are Microsoft Authenticator and Google Authenticator. And then the last item here, and this certainly is not a full list, is defending ourselves at the device level. So what that would mean in the particular cases you can see here on the screen is our laptops, our mobile phones, our tablets. These three in general, again, I think are a good place to start when beginning a basic security strategy. Some simple steps surrounding each of them regarding email. Develop a culture of email security awareness. What does that mean? Be aware, be almost an advocate for your email. You protect it like you would protect your home to a certain degree. And internally yourself and those that you work with, you'll want to embrace the idea of treating email as more than just something that you passively engage with and that you can proactively communicate with one another surrounding on, just as you would have a conversation if you were sitting next to a person. Use strong, unique passwords across accounts. This is a big one in that you can go certainly down the road in the tunnel, so to speak, rather, in how you address strong passwords. There are password platforms, which could certainly could be spoken to. Many people are familiar with. But the general idea here is that if you are aiming as a bad actor to attack someone and someone is successful, they happen to guess even just something random like a Facebook account, which we'll speak about in privacy. I'll speak about it to a degree. If you're using that same password across the board, you are going to be in trouble because it's just a matter of time before someone figures out where you're at, Facebook, LinkedIn, what organization you work for, guesses your email, your work email, and then all of a sudden it's just a cascade. Learn your email posts, security function and tools. This particularly goes for people who operate no matter how big or small in more of an administrative kind of capacity, but even the frontline users that goes back to the idea of a culture of security awareness, be a learning organization, especially around security. You don't need to know how to program some type of app, but understanding like, hey, this email that's coming in, I don't know this person. Where is this coming from? You do a little bit of investigating. Be that type of person that has that approach to that and that can again can occur at any level. Some examples of security tools and functions would be any type of anti-malware, anti-fishing, anti-spam tools that you have, certain things around DNS.  If you have a PHP host, if you have an IMAP host, it does not matter, have an understanding. And if you're an admin, you definitely need to have an understanding of what tools are there. Be cautious of email links and attachments. This is where they get you. Within a mail message body, you have text, you have some HTML components, then you might find again URL links and then some types of attachments. Somebody's sending you something. Again, do you anticipate an email from this person? Is what they're sending to you, does it make sense? Why is Kevin sending me a RAR file? You don't need to know what that is. It's just a file type that there wouldn't be most likely a reason for you to send that type of file extension to me or to somebody else in most cases. So I'm gonna question what's going in there. So understanding the pieces and parts of email and being suspicious of them, having a healthy level of suspicion is important. Identity, establishing multi-factor authentication. This is the buzzword I think of the last year and a half. A lot of you are probably familiar with multi-factor authentication. How it works is you are attempting to access, again, the identity component, some type of resource. It is a challenge to your general access. What is it saying? I'm not accepting just a username and password. I need you to verify using another method. In the case of the earlier slide, we have apps like Microsoft Authenticator, Google Authenticator, which, by the way, can also support logging into other applications, not just Microsoft, not just Google. Having an environment that is away from single-factor authentication is the single smartest thing you can do. I personally, in the last year, have blocked three access attempts to my personal tenancy that were made by someone probably acting maliciously that found my email probably in some type of dark website, adopting devices with keys or biometrics. So if your organization has a deployment of, say, devices that it has in place, do those devices, for example, have something like Windows Hello for Business, which is a fingerprint biometric. If you're using something like a MacBook, a fingerprint reader, these are types of things that, enabling these types of tools, again, provide an additional layer of identity access. For something like security keys, I'll discuss that as we move over to devices here momentarily. They operate in both spectrums at the device and identity level, so it's worth knowing that they reside in both places. Consider whenever possible a location-based access tool. An example of something like that would be a policy that you have in a Microsoft 365 account called Named Locations. This also exists in Google Workspace. You can create workplace locations. What this does is this either can prevent access to your resources from certain internet traffic outside of regions that you designate or even set it up something like trusted IP addresses so that if you are logging into an account from a fixed, say, home address working remotely, the system knows what your IP address is. It's static. It stays the same. It knows that it can trust you. Developing policy surrounding privacy. A little vague, but the idea is that when we get to policy, you'll see it even more. If you don't have something in place with how all of you within an organization are addressing the way that you conduct yourself and your identity in the digital space, you ultimately need to have one. Formal, informal, it just needs to be something that is out there, is written and spoken of. As for devices, invest time in learning about device encryption. Again, that's kind of a slight rabbit hole conversation, but it's something worth knowing. This is that if somebody gains access to your device, how can I keep them out from my device? Microsoft BitLocker is a great tool, for example. It's part of a professional version of Windows. Mac has various tools that you can use to encrypt or lock. It's based on Unix, so it's really built on security anyways. But just learning a little bit about that can go a really long way. Again, along with identity, looking at onboarding new devices, when looking to onboard new devices, consider a product that does have a biometric reader, or even something like a FIDO2 key, which is fast ID online. It's something that are very inexpensive. There are a few bucks, some of them, they're out of the box, they're real easy to set up.  This is a big one. This is actually, if I put anyone up there, I'd probably put this one, especially in our COVID remote environment, is avoid commingling personal and professional devices. I operate with a work device. I have a MacBook, I have an iPhone, I have an iPad. I do not engage with those components of work with my personal devices. It's a big no-no. It should be standard policy. If somebody's in a position where they're forced, and it's a place where they have to do both, if you will, I would really try to limit and encourage some type of strategy for how you separate those, because it's when people jump over to certain websites where they're trying to interact with people socially, that there's mental slip-ups, they're engaging in a way that maybe potentially makes them more vulnerable. The effect that has will ultimately cascade down to a personal device that they have that's operating, using, and accessing your enterprise applications. You don't want that. That's a lot of where these attackers nowadays come in, again, is where can I hit you, and a low level, in a way that I know that I can get into the back end through your standard personal social media, et cetera. Moving over to privacy versus security, let's start by defining just what privacy and security are. Privacy refers to the control that you have over your personal information and how that information is used. Personal information is any information that can be used to determine your identity. Security refers to how protected your personal information is.  Avoid commingling those types of environments and treating privacy as a back channel into ultimately security. I'm gonna jump over here. As I mentioned, they've operated slightly separately, but they also work hand in hand. Just some basic things that you can do as practice to ensure a more private experience and engagement that you have on the web, on the internet. Limit sharing on the web. You could carry that over to a variety of different scenarios, but just the main takeaway here is think, like, what am I engaging with? If I'm attending something personal, am I using an enterprise email address for that? Ideally not, is this something where I can separate my work and personal identities and engage with this just on a personal level versus bringing the enterprise into there? That's something that's worth considering. Again, I added this on here twice because separate device environments wherever possible. It's a big one. Work from home has really changed this. I get at least two or three calls a quarter about someone that was hacked going in through Twitter, through Facebook, through a variety of other things. These platforms do a fairly good job of keeping things at bay, but when you get to user levels of hundreds of millions, that's a very daunting task. So again, keeping them separate is the key to just general privacy and security for both the individual and for the enterprise. One thing here that I don't actually often think is discussed is know your web browser. So when you get into things, and this is around privacy, you get into things like cookies, third-party cookies, tracking cookies, analytic cookies, et cetera, et cetera. They certainly have a value and I understand why they're being used and there may be instances where it's either required or necessary to engage with an element to do that. That's fine. What just understand those is that when there are instances where you're engaging with maybe a not-established trusted resource, do I need to provide complete and total access to my browser's cache? I maybe I don't. And then to that effect, like to what degree can I then start to engage certain advanced security components within the respective web browser, something like Edge, Firefox, Chrome, these are all Chromium-based browsers. They all have advanced security features. One of the big ones that I'm a fan of is HTTPS Connect Only, which goes over to the understanding the connection and I'll talk about that more in a second. But these are basic things that when you start learning, there's a ton of resources. What is the secureest level that you can make your web browsing experience? There's a feature like application guard that Microsoft has, I use Edge. There are ways to keep yourself safe as you move along on the internet. To that point, understanding your connection. Is my connection to a site secure? Have I been redirected to another site? Is that site encrypted? HTTP versus HTTPS in simple terms is a question of, am I doing on this site secure or is it not secure? If there's not secure TLS transport, you're not working across an encrypted browser connection. Unless it is an absolute necessity to be engaging in there. Like there are some kind of, there are some storage things that have come across where I do need access to this PDF. I don't know why it's not encrypted, but I do need access to it. I know it's a trusted resource, et cetera. That's one thing. It's another thing if I'm going to, again, going back to the links, the malicious links and these other types of things are going to a site, is miss even misspelling your site in the URL browser. What, where have I landed? Like, what am I connected to and how am I connected to it? That's a big thing. Another thing is wifi and public wifi. Now wifi six and a change the game a little bit here, but it's a new technology for securing wifi wireless connection endpoints when coffee shops, et cetera, airports, but it's not universally adapted. And I'm not going to trust it. So if I'm connected using a work device somewhere, do I have something like a virtual private network setup? Like how, again, how am I reaching the resources I'm at? Is it something that everybody has access to? Understand and know that. And the last part here is review apps and permissions. We're probably familiar with this without realizing we're familiar with it. Policies and permissions surrounding any application come in a form of implied and then some that are even, you will dictate it to us. Understanding what role an application can play rather than just simply checking off, I allow this, I allow you access to that. Sure, you can do this, I agree to this in order to integrate this app.  It's not like you have to stop the train, but it's still worth understanding that, okay, so if I've added disintegration to an application I'm using, it has access to my contacts. Why does it need access to my contacts? And if you're really looking to use something, have a conversation internally with your IT team, et cetera, and say, hey, I would like to use this. I'd like to know, is this a trusted third party extension or application that I can use? Having a conversation, taking a second to review things is hours or even potentially weeks or months worth of headaches prevented by doing something very simple. And with that, I'm going to open this up to the Q and A that we have coming in here. All right, thank you so much. That was awesome. I learned a lot there with the world of portions coming in the chat room and the Q and A, so we'll just get right to it. One second, how can I use a pass feed to provide MFA access to pass online resources and protect PCs and laptops? Okay, yeah, so there's a bit to unpack about that. Regarding pass keys, you're talking about tokenization and that's where it's ultimately moving. I think for the sake of time, I would just probably encourage you to like to really honestly to reach out to us because I could talk about this for a half an hour. Pass keys are a new thing that people are moving towards as well, I'm just the tokenization is somewhat similar in construction to SSO, which some of you might be familiar with, but yeah, I'd really like to connect actually to have a larger conversation about that. Okay, thank you, Kevin. Here's a good one because I always think about this too, how to remember every single password, what is the safest system to use? Excel, software, notebook, what do we do? So that's an awesome question. Probably one of the least that I would recommend is Excel. Now you could of course password protect an Excel spreadsheet, but what are you gonna call it? So if you wanted to get really clever and you had an Excel spreadsheet with passwords on it and you called it whatever, that's clearly not passwords and they had a password protected. But that is the like lowest level of security and quite honestly someone looking into that, I'm gonna dig around, I'm eventually gonna find it and I'm probably gonna figure out what the password is. So in something like that, honestly, if you're old school and you wanna keep a notebook, that's fine, again, identity and access management keep that aware, like where's the notebook? Is it in an office, is it whatever? So to me, I look at that and I think of something like a feature like LastPass or Dashlane, Bitwarden, a ton of technology tools that you could integrate into your existing environment. I would use those. I'm a big fan also of like Keychain, which is Mac OS, but certainly for Windows, I would be leaning towards like probably a password solution, they're very inexpensive and some of them like even can scale to even more functionality than just general password protection. Okay, thank you, Kevin. Here's a question, what are some things we can do as an organization to address both privacy and security? Yeah, that's a great question. So I would probably start with just a couple of items and I'm gonna keep this short, but this is just to have context. Have a plan for a potential breach. Like you have insurance on your house, you protect yourself in certain ways, have a contingency plan for something happens to someone. It's always after it happens that people are responding and then they don't have something in place. So at least begin a conversation internally like where you can begin to outline those things. When adopting or scaling an IT solution, whether it's equipment or software, make sure security and privacy are part of the design. Like your roadmap should have security somewhere built in there. The other thing is regulations. Everyone works in a variety of different types of business or enterprise. Some of you deal with financial information. Some of you deal with HIPAA, these types of things. Knowing the programs that you're doing and how to classify and protect data that goes into that roadmap thing I was just mentioning. Begin the process of whiteboarding that out somehow. Know what it is that you're engaging with and what special attentions it may need. And then the last part, and this kind of just as an extension of those, perform a review of your security and privacy policies regularly. It does have to be every week, maybe once a quarter, by annually, but please do it because the landscape changes and it's really important to understand if you need to make adjustments, like where we maybe need to add things, where we may be being a little bit too aggressive in our security and privacy policies. Wow, that's good. That's good, Kevin. It's a question, it may seem simple, but this is a very quick question. What are some things while surfing the web that we should pay attention to? Yeah, that's going back to the HTTPS that I brought up a couple of times. Is a website encrypted? How are you being routed there? Am I at the correct URL for address? Was I rerouted through a different address? Popups and analytics, do you have the ability to control what types of cookies are permitted to be cached during your time on the website? If no, it might be worth again restricting them to just maybe necessary or functional cookies. It really just comes down to if you are venturing into an untrusted source, do you have the ability to get a resource even from something on the web that you know and trust versus the way that searches are indexed? I don't know this particular website. Anybody can pay for an ad that does not mean that it's necessarily trusted. So when you can refer to a trusted source of authority for something, do it.  And this is another thing, do it. I encourage this internally, even our customer success team is when people come to me to ask for technical documentation or resources, I only go to maybe a half a dozen different sites. I don't need to peruse the web and guess why I'm at XYZ company site to learn something. I stick with what I know and typically it answers the majority of the questions that I have. Very good. What's a VPN and why do I need one? Why do I need to use one? Yeah, that's a good question. VPN is a virtual private network. It's a networking service that allows you to create a secure connection to another network over the internet by essentially masking your routing or your traffic on the internet. One thing VPNs especially are good for is shielding your browsing activity and going back to that airport WiFi scenario that I was talking of. I would not put it against some bad actor to bring you don't need to know what this is but they're called pineapples. I would not be surprised if somebody at SF had a pineapple and it's rerouting web traffic through their router. It is for pen testing. You don't really need to know what that is. It's just for security but it's used to do bad things too. So again, where you can use a VPN and where it makes sense, you probably should. Very good. So what's the best way to create and manage a strong password? You talked about that a little bit but where should people start? I know you mentioned Dasserine and some things. Yeah, those are a really good start. To me, it's depending on what environment you are on Windows, Mac, Chrome OS. Any type of hexadecimal is just a general discussion. Hexadecimals are so much more infinitely difficult to guess. Avoid common words, common phrases. Do not use something about your company. Don't use something about your dog that I know I can find all about on your Facebook feed. It's beautiful and wonderful as it is. Their name and the year that you adopted them is gonna be where a lot of these people are gonna start searching through. So again, hexadecimal is a great place to start. Any type of combinations that are typically not sequential are great as well. Thank you. Somebody talked to him hexadecimal. They appreciated that. I should have explained what that was. Yeah, I think this question kind of ties in from Sabrina, how would you use a password mantra like Dashlane or any other products that you recommend? Dashlane is really just about something that's sitting within the interface of your web browser. And as you begin new and initiating sessions, uncached sessions against something, it just essentially gives you the ability to then begin saving it. It works how a password extension would work. Slightly different types and levels of encryption are associated with something like Dashlane. So versus using something that's hosted completely in your browser and that information is there, that information and password information resides in on Dashlane's end and it gets communicated to whatever the particular browser is as per needed.  And then the first thing I'm gonna do in an attack like that is I'm gonna immediately go into your settings and I'm gonna look for your passwords.  Historically, they've done great jobs of protecting people despite the fact that all the security stuff I engage with, CISA, security newsletters, podcasts, they're content targets, but they just do a great job of just evading the bad people. Grace, DJ asks, how do I encrypt everything in my email? Best practices and apps that support past key encryption options rather than a machine based PG, PG. So getting into email encryption, it's really just about leveraging like what tool is in their SMEM. I never heard of somebody setting SMEM as like a default format, but in theory, I mean, you certainly could if every mail message that you had to push was encrypted, required encryption. Yeah, you could set up SMEM or MIM encryption and then set that to the default mechanism. Something like an exchange server has the ability to do that. I know how to configure it in 365. It's actually something as simple as just really turning on SMEM encryption. And you can do that across, you can do that across the tendency in the admin portal. So again, this is a great question. This is very high level, which is awesome. I think talking about like practices and roadmapping something like this, I'd be happy to have a longer conversation about. Awesome. So Kevin, here's a question. Do you recommend organizational issued phones for security as well? If you can afford it, yeah. To me, it's the, this is the thing is that you run into and I'll try to be very quick about this. Is that for example, I have an iPhone and I'm going to be very forward and it's describing when it goes not well, because I will admit when I don't do things correctly, I bricked my iPhone trying to enroll it in an MDM solution, which means I was blocked out of my iCloud account for three months. And that was specifically because I was trying to cohabitate a personal iCloud environment with what was a mock enterprise environment. The lesson that I learned from that is where you can acquire tools that are specifically related to the enterprise and pushed out through the enterprise, I would. It requires a lot less work. Like in the case of Apple, you don't have to have two Apple push notifications. Like just one single Apple push notification configured and then a business, one business manager account. In case of Android, it's enrolled a bit differently. It's actually really easy to enroll in Android devices I discovered. But to the point, if you can, I would just, because the big thing is some of the features that you get from a mobile device management tool. One of those big things is locking out. I've lost the phone. There's a lot of clever people that know how to do a lot of things as far as bypassing biometrics, other types of security, et cetera. Loading a phone or booting it from BIOS, which just means I'm getting to the core parts of the phone of firmware. If you have an enterprise device with a mobile device management solution, okay, somebody lost their phone. I can either lock it out completely, at least from the application end, like they can get into the phone, but they're not going to do anything within the company portal. If it's a cake, Microsoft, similar profile in Google, or it's like, you know what, this lost. We're not getting this back. We have no idea where it's at. I just do a remote wipe. The phone is done. It's trash. Some bad person gets it. It's irrelevant. The phone is essentially worthless. So again, based on your scenario, if it makes more sense to do that, I'd recommend it. I've actually heard, like, I've had one really bad customer story about somebody called Mingling, company profiles on devices, and then they unfortunately had to let people go and retrieving access to those devices was almost impossible. It took them about six months. Wow. Oh, this sounds scary, but that's why education and information is important. So we appreciate you doing this, Kevin. So here's a question from Anna, three parts. So I'm going to grab one for it. Will you advise against using a password system like a word plus the name of the website? For example, curtains plus Twitter plus a number and keep it a system? I would, like wherever you can. Again, it's just, it's a wall of large numbers at that point. And if you look at something, just even Google things like band password lists, like that, you know, resources maintain. And it's just, I just don't really like word, like specific pronoun word associated password. I just, I'm just really not a fan. So not in line either. I guess I still will say I'm 99.9% not a fan. I guess the 0.1% would be, do you have something additionally to authenticate against that?  If you are receiving a notification through a Microsoft authenticator or Google authenticator, you could do that, but that would be your notification to you that you then need to change it to something that's not even close to that. Okay, Sabrina asked, any recommendations for affordable VPNs? Yeah. I have to take a look to see if there's anything through our catalog I don't know if anybody here tech supplies is aware of any solutions I've used express. It's not a partner of ours. It's very inexpensive. It's a great tool. Think it's maybe $100 a year. So can install it on five devices, I believe I have it on three. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I, there's a ton of them. Norton makes one bit warden and then bit warden can actually even theory double as your password manager too. It does VPN and password manager. I think, I think Nord VPN does as well. Norton might have a solution. It's really take a look at it, see like what kind of works best to your environment and then just, you know, just go from there. I think you'll see that a lot of these companies kind of sit at that like a four and a five star rating and there's not really necessarily something that differentiates one from the other. Well, this has been good. I think we've answered all the questions here. Let me see. Just want to make sure there's one question. How to remember every single password with safety system? Okay. We did answer that. There was a more answer. So I think we've answered all the questions, Kevin. This was amazing. Any last words to everybody? Yeah. This is really just, it's about learning. It's about being proactive. It's, you figure you take the time to maybe learn how to install like tile or something. Like set time across your work day. Like, and you should encourage this as an organization. It's about learning and encouraging healthy communication. It's that you don't want people like just assuming that people are all doing the right things. We generally are, but like, man, that Amazon gift card. I really want that. And I'm sure that this came from somebody legit. It's just about having a culture of openness around privacy and security. And just, and where you can be as close down the same page. First and possible. You weren't looking, but there are lots of virtual claps in the chat room area. So thank you to lots of chat room saying, thank you, Kevin. It was great information.


So I'm going to keep my remarks brief that there are only six or 800 children a year who die of leukemia in the US because we have advanced medical therapies, but it's 10,000 a year in India. So I think we have a medical emergency on how we can install that. I got a text from Emma Whitehead's father two weeks ago. She just had her 14th birthday. So I've been working with a graduate student in my lab, Sonia Agrawal, and now Rahul Puwar in Mumbai on how to install indigenous CAR T cell therapies in India. And I think that's what I want to focus on. I mean, there's a whole larger issue, which is cell and gene therapy and how do we disrupt therapies in the US to bring those out? And that's a huge issue. In India, it's a different one. And so you heard about amylas. My disclosures are Novartis and community. There are articles written on exactly the issues of CAR T cells. But we now have this issue that in the US, it's very different than India. And how do we change this issue into emerging economies? So we have this very large, you know, it was talked about by Andy, about, you know, cancer immunotherapy and its growth. CAR T cell therapy research is primarily in US and China. There are no trials in India. And you can see the southern hemisphere is really devoid of this. So there's lots of research. There were three trials in 2010 and most treated in 2012. And now there's over 400 trials. But how do we make this an emerging, you know, industry and, you know, a new way of delivering therapy? How can we, you know, change the scale of the time of how it comes out? And so one aspect that's different, there's a paper written by Beth Schachter, shown here, who discusses this and that the most rapid way to have it happen would be a government-private philanthropic partnership. So it's different than a drug that's made, you know, in a single manufacturing center and then distributed. These are patient-specific cells. They're from a regulatory point of view. They're N of 1. And it's most closely related to a bone marrow transplant. You know, but the bone marrow transplant was never regulated by the FDA. It emerged and now we have it. And I think we need to look at CAR T as that way. It's very hard to have a therapy like that. It's not just reimbursed as a price of the cell therapy, but it's an entire system. And so we need to figure this out. The solution's probably different in the U.S. than it is in India. And this is from a friend of mine, Chris Roy, who's at Georgia Tech, who is looking at this from an engineer's perspective of all the things that have to happen when you have a new therapy. And we need all kinds of, there's a whole ecosystem that needs to be established. And that's happening now rapidly. I heard from Marcella Mouse today that there's 60 biotechs just in the Boston, Cambridge area now. It's unbelievable. There's over 500 cell therapy companies. And when I started this, there were zero. And then Novartis came in and now we've had more than $30 billion investment in the U.S. But none of it's happened in India. And so these are some considerations that I think we can discuss. You know, how do we do this? There's the issue of cell therapy here, but there's a whole cell and gene therapy. And how do we do this in developed economies compared to non-developed? In India, from what I've talked with my friends, there are no guidelines. So who's going to invest when you have no way to know? Can you bring something to market? And then the infrastructure. Currently, to do a CAR T cell therapy, you need a massive infrastructure. Half of our patients with advanced disease end up in an ICU. Next generation CAR T cells won't do that. And that's only a few years away. It will be an outpatient therapy. So it could be a one and done therapy without the massive infrastructure that we have currently on generation 1.0. So that's limited in India. But soon there will be CAR T cells that are non-toxic. And so then it becomes cost of goods. And can we implement it? So in our case, philanthropic support was absolutely essential to do this. And then pharma and biotech have come in. And I think that we need that in industry and in India. In India, from what I understand, I mean there is a reluctance to invest in early stage technologies. It's been directed at late stage. So we need some risk taking and a pathway to bring this into India. And we talk about the cost of goods. So Novartis right now makes less money selling CAR T cells than they do other drugs. Later, the cost of goods will come down. And in India, it could be much cheaper. We don't need to reproduce what we do in the US where we have an N of 1. So there's no issues like there is with a large vaccine where you can have class action lawsuits. These are one patient products. So the worst that can happen is one patient. So the standards for an N of 1 need to be different than they are for something that could be a vaccine for a million children. And right now, the standards are the same. And so we need risk taking. And what's appropriate in India is different than it is in the US and Europe. So I'm hoping that the India will develop guidelines to take this into consideration. And then there could be a pathway rapidly to have next generation cars and develop there. Because it actually could work better with the infrastructure by having a one-undone therapy. So I'll stop with that. And Roger? Wonderful. So I think as all of you know that a call has been a pioneer in thinking about these approaches for hematologic malignancies. And he has shown how these are not partial responses, but actually cures for patients. And we've been thinking about these approaches now for a variety of different types of cancers. And he has provided a vision now for how we might be able to make it affordable for a lot of people. And so let's open the floor for discussion. I don't think I need one. How has China been able to move so fast into this field? Is it because of capital investment on the part of the government? Is it a change in regulation? Is it the biophysical, biochemical expertise that was there before the therapy was developed? Yeah, so I think what I've learned is the emergence of cell and gene therapy is very different geographically. So there's huge geographic disparity. In China, they're willing to take risk. There's much less risk taking in Europe, for instance, as you know. And China also, I mentioned that article and the idea that if we're with cell and gene therapy, we need a government, private, and philanthropic partnership. China invested from a central government. They said this is a high priority. So they put part of their GDP into cell and gene therapy. And that's how they've overtaken us. They had no innovation there. And so they invest a higher part. I mean, their budget is much larger in this. Not their entire biomedical research enterprise, but it is in cell and gene therapy. They decided they wanted to be a leader there. So I mean, there's an issue of IP and all that that we have right now with, say, fifth generation technologies of the internet. And they want to win there, too. So they have been able in certain areas in China. There's just recent new guidelines that came out about a month ago from China. They're only in Mandarin right now. But there was a review written about this. And they have decided now that leading hospitals in China can charge and get reimbursed for new cell and gene therapies without FDA approval. They're equivalent of the in China. So they have a different regulatory strategy in China for cell and gene therapy than we do in the US. And we need to come to some. I mean, the FDA has been a leader in this and has been really quite amazing and is very accommodating on this. And the Chinese are trying to leap forward, leap progress. Thank you, Koal, for the excellent presentation on the court sales. Just I want to, this is not a question. Just a comment from the Indian side. The government of India, Ministry of Health, already constituted the Export Committee to frame guidance document on gene therapy and related new technologies. And probably in the next couple of months, we are able to come up with the new guidelines for the court sales. And some of the Indian companies, they're already doing a lot of innovation in the court sales. You may be knowing one of your sponsor of this program is they're also involved in developing the court sales in India. And we have very well established the patentism, the sales which are developed in India. We have Indian Patent Act under which their rights have been well protected under the Act. Recently, we also almost finalized the regulation and signed guidance document on regenerative medicine. Thus, stem cell therapy guidelines have already been published, which we have received a lot of comments on that. We are in the stages of finalization of these draft guidelines. Thank you very much. I mean, that's great to hear. We've heard how in other technologies like, for instance, in Africa, they're basically leapfrogging. They went straight to cell phones without landlines. I think in India, with that kind of leadership, you could do the same. Carl, again, congratulations. I don't know what it might feel like to be able to help even one patient like Emma, but to help future patients, it's quite incredible. So congratulations again. You already have thoughts about how these therapies can affect other cancers other than leukemias. But what are your thoughts about even beyond that? And we mentioned this morning about the possibility of affecting autoimmune diseases and beyond. So maybe if you just opine about that for a second, we'd all appreciate it. So thanks, Bill. I mean, we have this emerging scientific overwhelming data that the immune system and inflammation contribute to many diseases, from neurodegenerative to atherosclerosis. And so I think the immune system could be brought to bear on that. And there are already data that, for instance, in mouse models that regulatory T cells which can turn off the immune system can in mice treat EAE, which is equivalent of multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes. We have CAR T cells now that we're trying to treat mouse atherosclerosis, targeting oxidized LDL. So I think there's many approaches that will happen with engineered cells. And it won't be just T cells. It'll be NK cells, bone marrow stem cells, for instance, and all kinds of IPSCs. So there will be a cell therapy industry, I think, that will target inflammation at different, depends on the disease, and hopefully to get into people at risk for cancer. I mean, we heard 10% of patients have familial cancers, probably more than that. Preventing that, instead of, for instance, ovarian cancer where it's surgical castration, could we install a cell therapy system so that the patient never gets ovarian cancer? I think all that will happen in some time scale that we don't know at this point, but the science is there. Can I ask one more question? So Carl, many people think that these types of therapies are very expensive, and we were talking earlier, and you're making a case that this is not more expensive than the chemotherapy, and certainly less expensive than transplants. Can you talk about that a little bit more? I mean, I think there's two relevant analogies. We're at the beginning of a new industry. You know, initially computers were room size and very expensive, that came down a million-fold in expense. I think that will happen so that this will be literally, you know, the cells will be manufactured in a machine. Right now, the most expensive part of the cost of goods is human labor. So if it were automated, then it becomes cheap, and much cheaper than we already have. So I think that's gonna happen. The question's the time scale of how long that takes to happen, but then the cost of goods barrier goes away. Yeah, we got a question here, yeah. Good morning, thank you, Dr. June, for this. Can you just comment on the balance that we have with innovation and competition?  I mean, that's a whole huge issue on the development. There will be many next generation therapies that are both more effective and less toxic, and then there's gonna be less, you know, the cost of goods and so on. So I hopefully market competition will work to bring down the cost.  So this is an issue with pricing in general in the US, and that's a whole other discussion, but the technology is there, and hopefully VC investments will bring out better therapies, but pricing's a larger discussion that you all know is very complicated. Paul, thank you so much. Thank you.


Greetings, second-rated battalion, family, and friends. I'm Lieutenant Colonel Steve Siclari, and this is Sergeant Major Carl Jacobson, and we are the battalion command team. Since I assumed command in June of this year, we've had a couple of opportunities where we have attempted to get together to start a conversation with our families. Unfortunately, due to weather, we've had to cancel both of those events, and I regret having to do so and apologize for any inconvenience that may have caused. It remains a priority of mine to include the families and family considerations in everything we do. Sergeant Major's gonna outline the next event that we have on the docket for second-rated battalion, families, and friends. Thank you, sir. As CO said, we haven't been able to get together as a real battalion family, so the CO and I would like to invite all of you out to Marsh Pavilion on October 19th in order to have a sit-down with the CO and myself to have a discussion about anything that you would like to bring up with us. Please be on the lookout from an email from Miss Sandy Harrison with the details of these events. And there'll be more things into the future. So we'll be doing trunk retreat coming up. We have holiday party plan. We've got the ring court ball coming up on the 16th of November. We're looking forward to seeing you all out there at each of those events.


Hi, this is Sandy the purple lady, and I'm dressed like this because I'm doing a virtual author visit That's one of the many ways that my life has changed since The pandemic hit us It has really reorg'd how I do things. I am actually learning that I can reach more people virtually once I get up on the technology that I ever could in person and As I remind the kids that they're all royal and that they have something to offer I have found that this still time has made me go even deeper I spend daily still time looking over and thinking about life what I want to do what I want to accomplish I Started these just a minute videos to inspire people something. I've always wanted to do. I'm learning technology Which for me is huge since technology is not my thing I'm finding creative ways to show my love for people and to do my work which is very challenging to do via a computer and I'm also finding that my created Aspects of myself are kicking into play because all of this is challenging me. I love my family I am missing hugging the kids. I am a hugger That's the biggest thing for me is how to send out love and receive love without that hugging I have my glorious husband, of course, and I hug him to death But just thinking about all my ancillary brothers and friends and sisters But overall the pandemic has made me not want to waste time to live my life to the fullest and To get busy about doing all those things that I say are important to me again I'm dressed like this because I think we're all royalty and I'm meeting with kids right now as we speak and I feel very blessed That's my two minute Commentary on that. Have a great day


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Hello everyone, here is your god and today I would like to give you an update about what happened in my life last time so, of course, you all, actually you all, expected that film in which I ate capsicum and later I ate and after the film, because of course you are not in my house and you don't expect me after the house I just went to the house and held the wind and said, oh fuck, I don't feel good because in fact my wind, I felt like it was blowing and my wife looked at me because she had to run away in the afternoon, but she was still here and she looked at me when I sat in the house and said, oh help me and said, because you are the biggest person in the whole world you know that and I said, yes, but the viewers they want it, they want to see my pain and she said, fuck, you are the biggest person and I said, I didn't talk much anymore, but after that, of course after a while I had to go to the internet and I sat there very hard, maybe, maybe more but I just sat there with the earphone in my hand and expected the film and one after the other and immediately said, oh fuck, because of course it wasn't a good spirit to make a lot of capsicum, I suppose and really, they hurt my body very quickly more quickly than usual usually I have to wait for a very long time but also, I have a story for you and the story is about my childhood I thought I was 9 years old at that time and I was with my brother, so the story is about me and my brother and we were in the wrong room of our house and we were close to the world, but really, that's not important in this story but in the wrong room, my brother had a big garden and in fact, there were capsicums and me and my brother were in the garden and I don't know why we did that, but yeah, we did that and I saw the capsicums and I remember that I said to my brother do you have the gift to take one of these capsicums on your body and he said, of course, I can do that and he took it and without thinking, broke it twice and then he simply took the body and put it on the body and now he said, it's not bad, but after a few centuries he said, oh fuck and he broke the body and the whole garden he simply woke up and blacked it and said, please, help me my brother, oh fuck, oh fuck, it's burning, it's burning and of course my brother broke the body and said, what's happening what's happening to your brother and then he broke my brother I put the capsicum on my brother and my brother it's strange, because he didn't do that, it's a strange situation and he went to the house, took a bottle of milk and he took the cap and poured the milk on the cap and now, when I think about it, it's strange because he didn't act like it was a strange situation in fact, I think that maybe when he was a kid, he did the same thing but it was very funny and also, I want to talk about the language festival well, after two weeks, it happened the language festival of Sydney and it's a big event and in fact, during the festival I missed the festival to the public so I have to give the first reading, the most important, oh fuck and there were 200 or 300 people there and there were a lot of people and I really like to take part in the festival but there's a lot of work to do and also, I have to teach Esperanto and I think that I'll teach it tomorrow but maybe another Esperantist, Jonathan Cooper will teach Esperanto so in fact, there are two lessons about Esperanto all other languages don't have that, so come to us and lastly, I want to talk about Google well, probably you all know that when you make movies on YouTube you can put in the movies ads on Google and one after the other, you can gain some amount of money and of course that can help if you make a lot of movies because you can buy equipment and other things but of course, because I make my movies in Esperanto I can't do that because if I want to put ads in my movies then Google will probably lose my account and I only found that when I translated the rules related to adsense and languages and then I noticed that many Esperanto movies actually use adsense and if Google finds that they probably won't lose your account and there are many songs on YouTube for example, the songs of Johnny M. they use adsense and when I saw that, I thought, I hope that Google will never find that because probably they won't lose their account and we don't want that because they have very good movies very good music movies if you never heard about Johnny M. simply search for Ensomero Ensomero is probably the best song that he made I really like that song it's very good, so find it and expect, of course and yes, I guess that's all related to my life now because after a few days I went to a new YouTube event and in the event, in fact, there was a very famous YouTuber he came to the event of Brisbane and he had about 200,000 subscribers in the event, if one day I can reach 200,000 subscribers oh, wow! in fact, that was a good way to present what Esperanto people exist and if you don't know recently I reached 1,000 subscribers that's why I have to eat capsules so, what I have to do to reach 2,000 subscribers if you have ideas suggest, suggest and that's all again, that's all I said that before but that's all if you like this movie like it, share it subscribe to my channel if you haven't subscribed yet and I'll see you in the next video and if you're not there I'll find you and I'll put capsules on your face of course you need a face and if you don't have a face I'll put a face on you oh, in fact, that's terrible no, I won't do that bye!