On behalf of the American Heart Association, the NBC Theatre presents Director's Guild Assignment, Production, Magnificent Obsession, Director John Stahl, Star Irene Dunn. This is the Screen Director's Guild presentation of the unforgettable Lloyd C. Douglas novel, Magnificent Obsession, starring Irene Dunn in her original role. The motion picture medium is often described as the most magnificent art form ever devised. For it is a combination of all the arts. One of the most critical of these is the new and dynamic art of the Screen Director. For it is he who must integrate and guide the forces which combine to make the film. Therefore, it is with pride that the NBC Theatre presents one of the most celebrated exponents of the Screen Director's Art, the president of the Screen Director's Guild, Mr. George Marshall. Thank you very much. I'm pinch-hitting tonight for John Stahl. John, as you know, directed Magnificent Obsession, another such wonderful film as The Keys of the Kingdom, The Foxes of Harold, and The Walls of Jericho. Magnificent Obsession is one of John's favorite pictures because of the appealingly simple manner in which it translates basic human values into film, telling of hatred turning into love and darkness into light. And speaking for myself, I know that you will enjoy Magnificent Obsession, starring Irene Dunn in her original role as Helen Hudson. I am very calm. The vortex. The very center of the whirlwind is the stillest. There is tense, anxious action all around me, and I am the center of that tense activity. I am calm. All about me are the thin, brittle sounds of instruments being made ready, the whispers of the nurses, the low-efficient voices of my surgeons, and these surgeons. Instruments, voices, the voice of the chief surgeon speaking to me, only faintly dimmed by the anesthetic. How do you feel? Are you all right? Yes, tenderly, and I say, fine. All right. When do we start? We've started. Be a good girl now. I'm always a good girl, but I do wish you could hold my hand. In darkness I await my great moment, the moment that will bring me light or leave me in lifelong darkness. But I am calm. Many things swim through my mind, the music of a small girl's voice. A man was young, so neatly as she dressed, and so sweetly as she was. A wisp of music bittersweet. And then, the sudden nightmare of a time long before Paris, I remember Brightwood, my husband's hospital on the shore of the lake, the deep, smooth, fatal lake, the quiet lake that killed my husband. And in my mind I see again the wild bereft eyes of Joyce Hudson, my husband's daughter, my stepdaughter, Joyce telling me how it all happened. It all comes back. It all comes back. Father had been in surgery all day. I suppose he shouldn't have gone in swimming, but he always did. He had a cramp.  But where was the respirator? The respirator was gone. Gone. It was over at the Merrick Boathouse. That young playboy Bobby Merrick nearly drowned. He was drunk and he nearly drowned. He developed pneumonia and they brought him here. Brought him here? Well, I never want to see him or meet him. Because all my life I shall know that because of him my husband had to die. I shall always hate Bobby Merrick, loathe him, hate him. Helen, you've got to talk to Bobby Merrick. I won't. He won't listen to anyone. He has a fever of 103 and he refuses to stay in bed. There's nothing I can do. Helen, you're the head of this hospital now. You must talk to him. Oh, what have we here? Nice. Mr. Merrick, you've been behaving very badly. Chuck, I can't help it. If I'm the active type, I want to get out. Believe me, I'd be very happy to see you go, but it's our responsibility to take proper care of you. Now, look, you don't have to recite the Hippocratic Oath to me. I had three years of medical school myself. I wasn't bad either. But I was bored, so I quit. I'm not surprised. My husband always said that the mere possession of a medical degree didn't make a doctor. It takes humility, humanity, things that you're too selfish to understand. Now, wait a minute. Are you going to be the next one to tie into me because I happened to be drowning at the same time this Dr. Hudson was drowning? Is it my fault that this whistle-stop hospital had only one respirator? And anyhow, did I ask for it? A lot of people loved and honored Dr. Hudson. Sure. And they're all wondering why I should live and he had to die, huh? Yes. All right. I'm not worth much, but you might as well face it. He's dead, and I'm alive. We both thought a lot. Hey, when do we eat? I'll have a tray up in ten minutes. Oh, thank you. Mrs. Hudson. Mrs. Hudson. With good luck, we may be able to discharge you in a week. Dr. Wayne Hudson's wife? Yes. I didn't know. Now you know.  Yes, Mr. Merrick.  In the operating room, I feel no pain as the surgeons operate. I feel the dull pressure of their instruments somewhere about my head. The fine surgical lamps blaze for them. But although I'm conscious, I'm in total darkness. And in that darkness, I think back to the events that are having their climax here. Mosquito forceps. Let me remember. More suction, please. We discharged Bobby Merrick from the hospital, and I did not see him again for many weeks. Nor did I wish to see him ever again. What happened then comes from Randolph the stone cutter across from the cemetery where my husband lay buried. One night in a thunderstorm, Randolph was awakened by a pounding at his door. Who should it be but Bobby Merrick drenched, covered with mud, and of course, very, very drunk. What can I do for you, sir? A ladder, sir. Getting out of my car, I fell into a ditch. So now I'm in a ditch and can't get out without a ladder, sir. Come in. Why don't you stay here overnight? And in the morning we'll find a ladder and help you climb out of that ditch. Hey. Hey, what are all those statues around here for? I'm a stone cutter. I make gravestones and such. And so? Who's that one over there? That's a bust of Dr. Wayne Hudson. You may have heard of him. Heard him. He's haunting me. First they saved my life with Dr. Hudson's long machine, and then they take me to Dr. Hudson's hospital. And I meet a beautiful girl. Who is she? Dr. Hudson's wife. Ms. Whittle. Haunting me, that's what.  Haunting. I'll make you breakfast in the morning and then we'll get a ladder and look for you. Good morning, Randolph. Oh, come in, Mrs. Hudson. I've finished the bust and I'm ready to mount it on your husband's tombstone any time you say. Oh, thank you, Randolph. That's why I came down this morning. Oh. Mrs. Hudson, Mr. Robert Merrick. We've met. My car stalled last night with a wet carburetor. Randolph here is good enough to put me up overnight. Randolph, I'm ready to go to my husband's grave whenever you're ready. Ready right now. I'll get my coat and my boots. Rather muddy this morning. I'd like a word with you, Mrs. Hudson, when you get back, if you don't mind. I mind very much. Well, then I'd like a word with you, anyhow. Well, it was very kind of you to offer to drive me back to wherever my car happens to be. I meant only to be civil, not kind. I had an interesting talk this morning with Randolph. He thought very highly of Dr. Hudson. Dr. Wayne Hudson inspired everyone he met. He did have a remarkable influence over people, I suppose. My husband understood the one important law of survival. He knew that man could continue to deserve life only so long as he lived to serve others. He believed in the power of unselfishness and in power from unselfishness. Remarkable theory. It's a working living theory. My husband discovered that Randolph had a talent for something better than carving gravestones, but he encouraged him to continue making memorials for the beloved dead. It wasn't art at first, but because it was in the service of plain, stricken, unhappy people, it became great. As my husband knew, it must. That's very interesting. Oh, I know. You, to your worldly kind, there's no value in human sympathy, no virtue in unselfishness. You know you're beautiful. Mr. Merrick, I think you better get out here. Well, I hardly talk to you. There's nothing further to say. I haven't had a fair chance to express myself in the unfortunate incident about your husband. Incident? A thousand people have lost their hope of happiness and even life itself, and you call it an incident. Well, I only meant to try to... Get out of this car. Oh, why don't you melt? Get out. Oh, please. Look at that beautiful scene. Will you leave this car? What a view. It's Arcadian. It's classic. All right, then I'll get out. Here, here, wait. No, let go of my wrist. Oh, listen to me. Let go, I tell you. Let go. Oh, come on back. After all, I will... Look out! Look out for that car! Joyce, tell me. I'll tell you. Well, will she live? She'll live. For the rest of her life, Helen will be blind. Blind? For as long as she lives. First my father, then Helen. Blind. Oh, why do people like you have to go on living? Why? Why? On behalf of the American Heart Association, the NBC Theater is presenting the Screen Directors Guild production of Magnificent Obsession, starring Irene Dunn as Helen Hudson, with Willard Waterman as Robert Merrick. I lie in darkness while the surgeons work about me, trying to turn the darkness into light for me again. I know I'm safe with them, safe and calm, and I think mysteriously of the warm days in the park, feeling the warmth of the sunshine that I could not see, I think of the little girl who used to meet me in the park to help me with my braille lessons, or I was learning to read with my fingertips to live in the darkness. And was young, so neatly as she dressed, and so sweetly as she sung. That doesn't even make sense to me, but it's your turn. My dearest Jenny Wren, if you will but be mine, you shall dine on cherry pie, cherry pie, and drink nice current wine. I'll dress you like a... like a... I'm stuck. Goldfish. Oh, that can't be right, can it? Goldfish? Goldfinch. Oh. It's kind of a bird. Hello there. Hello. Susan, I thought we were alone. Oh, him? He's here every day. Let's read some more. No, I'd rather not today. Tomorrow? Yes, tomorrow. Well, okay. Take care of yourself. All right, I'll be seeing you, Susan. Bye, mister. Yes, so long, dear. I didn't know anyone was near us. Won't you let me help you with your reading? No, I'd be embarrassed learning my ABCs with a grown-up. Before long, you'll be reading the classics in Braille. I have a friend who collects them. I'd like to bring them to you from time to time. Well, thank you, but I'd better learn my mother Goose first. Are you interested in Braille? Yes, very much. You a doctor? I just took my degree. Nice. What's your name? Robert. Oh, Dr. Robert. I'm Helen Hudson. Well, I'd better hurry home. I'll walk home with you. No, it'll be out of your way. No, no, it isn't far. How do you know? Well, I... I've watched you every day. Oh. May I? Well, yes, thank you. Tell me something. Sure, anything. Have you ever been connected with Brightwood Hospital? Brightwood? Why? Your voice just seemed familiar, that's all. Day after day he was there waiting for me, reading to me, as I learned to read with my fingertips. Day after day he walked with me as far as my corner and no further. He never accepted my invitation to come in the house for a moment, never. Then one day it rained furiously and I didn't go out to our bench in the park. He telephoned me and I was glad, for I had great news for him. But again he wouldn't come over until I happened to mention that my stepdaughter, Joyce, was not at home. Then he consented to visit me, only then. I had to come over when you hit it at this mysterious great news. Now what is it? Dr. Robert, I'm going to Paris. Four famous doctors have agreed to consult over my case. I suppose they mean it as a tribute to my husband, don't you? Yes, I daresay. Well, then I won't be seeing you for a while. No, but when I come back, perhaps I'll be seeing you. Perhaps. Oh, Helen. Oh, back so soon, Joyce. It began to rain so hard I just gave up the whole idea for... Oh. Oh, Joyce Hudson, this is Dr. Robert. You heard me speak about him. Oh, yes. Well, I was just about to go, Miss Sir. Let me go to the door with Dr. Robert. Thank you. Wish me luck. I do, from the bottom of my heart, Helen. Thank you. Goodbye. Bon voyage, darling. Ready, Joyce? I'll ride to you, Dr. Robert. Goodbye. Now, what is this Bobby Merrick? Don't use that name outside her door. What's your game, Mr. Merrick? Things have changed, Joyce. I've changed.  But she loves a voice named Dr. Robert. What's going to happen when she opens her eyes and sees you? Perhaps she won't open her eyes. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Joyce. Joyce, I arranged for those specialists in Paris. I did. That's even worse. Helen would rather be blind than oversight to Bobby Merrick. Paris. Paris and hope. Paris and disillusion. Four great doctors looked into my eyes. Examined x-rays, tested, asked questions, gave up. All the next day and into the early evening, I sat at the window of our hotel, hearing the voice of the city, listening to life and laughter in the streets, feeling so much and seeing nothing, and never hoping to see. Yes, come in, please. Joyce? Is there two Joyce? Helen. Oh.  Dr. Robert, you came all this distance.  Let me see if you're real, if you're really here. You're so glad. Glad? Oh. Dr. Robert, I'm not going to see, but it's quite all right. No, really, I'm happy. I'm almost happier than I've ever been. Isn't it silly? Isn't it silly? No, it isn't silly, and you are going to see. They say no.  And we're going to start with Paris. I'm going to show you Paris. And I'm going to show Paris you. Day after day, we saw Paris. Paris from the omnibus, the tower, the cathedral. Paris in the dawn, Paris in the murmuring dusk. Paris laughed and made the sounds of bells and violins. Paris glittered and sparkled and shone, only as it shines for such as walk in darkness with a lover at her side. Then one evening, on the heights of Montmartre, the song of the city came up to us where we sat hand in hand on an ancient stone bench. I sat in darkness, my hand in his, and I was happy. Oh, I'm so happy, darling. So very happy. Helen, could you ever again feel ranker or ill-will for anyone? Anyone at all? Never again for anyone, dearest. I want you to be very sure, Helen. I am sure, Robert. You called me Robert? Yes, darling. You know that? I've known for ever so long that I was Robert Merrick, the man who... who? The man I love. Helen? Oh, Helen, my dearest.  We're going to be married, Helen. A blind woman for your life. People would be sorry for you. Oh, no, I couldn't stand that. Helen, I came to bring you home as my wife. I'm going to do what I set out to do. Oh, Robert, darling. I... I... Let me answer you in the morning. All right. In the morning, Helen. Remember. Take me home, Robert. It's like a dream. A beautiful, beautiful dream. In the morning, Joyce and I left Paris. It was the only thing to do. For six long years, I did not see Robert again. I heard that he was abroad working, studying, and then one day I received a note from him. Joyce read it to me, only a few words. Dearest, I am a man possessed and obsessed, but I am not mad only in love. Wait for me. I'm on my way. Robert Merrick, M.D. I feel nothing as I lie on the operating table. Only the sure elation of my love and my trust in the man who works in darkness calling for instruments.  Once he held aside the veil of darkness, and I saw Paris, and he can brush the shadows for my eyes forever if anyone can.  I can see light. Good. Each day you'll be brighter until one day soon. All the shadows will be washed away. Robert. Darling, you mustn't get excited. All right, Robert. Can I get excited tomorrow? The NBC Theatre has presented the Screen Directors Guild production of Magnificent Obsession starring Irene Dunne. Next week, the NBC Theatre brings you another great motion picture story with its original team of director and star, John Cromwell and Ronald Coleman in the romantic adventure The Prisoner of Zenda. Co-starring with Mr. Coleman will be Miss Benita Hume. Now here again is tonight's star, speaking not as an actress, but as the woman's chairman of the American Heart Association, Irene Dunne. Thank you, thank you very much. As you've been told, tonight's Screen Directors Guild production is presented on behalf of the American Heart Association. Tomorrow marks the beginning of National Heart Week, and a friend of mine has dropped into NBC Theatre to tell you a little about it. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John Lund. Thank you. Thanks, Irene. Folks, next week, the American Heart Association and the various local heart associations will be asking you for $5 million. But the real goal of the National Heart Week campaign isn't dollars, it's lives. Close to 600,000 lives, which each year are snuffed out by heart disease. That's an awfully large figure, large enough to include you or a member of your family. So when you make your contribution to the Heart Association, you won't just be giving money away. You'll be buying something, research, a program of public education, and the most modern and efficient heart disease treatment to serve your own community. For example, a rheumatic heart disease strikes hardest at our children. To protect the youngsters, the Heart Association is setting up an organization to examine the heart of every child in the land. I know the American Heart is big enough to protect the hearts of its children. Don't let National Heart Week slip by without helping out. Good night. Our thanks to Irene Dunn, John Lund, and screen director George Marshall. Also heard on tonight's program were Willard Waterman as Robert Merrick, Barbara Eiler, Ralph Moody, Dan Riss, and Anne Whitfield. Magnificent obsession was adapted for radio by Milton Geiger, and original music was composed and directed by Henry Russell. Production was under the supervision of Howard Wiley, associate producer Bill Karn. Your announcer has been Frank Barton. Magnificent obsession was presented through the courtesy of Universal International Pictures, now releasing The Fighting of Flynn, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Helena Carter. Irene Dunn is currently starring in the RKO production I Remember Mama, the picture which is won her nomination for the Academy Award. Listen again next week when the NBC Theatre presents... Screen Directors Guild Assignment, production The Prisoner of Zenda, director John Cromwell, stars Ronald Coleman, Benita Hulme. The Screen Directors Guild program came to you from Hollywood. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.


Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is the least visited of all the rocky planets in our solar system. In my lecture I'll discuss and illustrate the dramatic and perplexing history of Mercury as revealed by NASA's messenger spacecraft that orbited Mercury from 2011 until 2015 and look ahead to BepiColombo. That's a joint European-Japanese mission that launched in October 2018. It's on a trajectory that will get it into orbit about Mercury in December 2025. There's a lot of work going on to prepare for arrival, including making the best geological maps that we can in advance, and a lot of that effort is going on here at the Open University. Join me for my inaugural lecture to find out more.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. This loading screen right here tells us Bundesliga team of the season is coming today in FIFA Ultimate Team and I want to talk about these players that are on the loading screen, possibly what players of those are. Talk about the promotion that is coming today and the end of LaLiga team of the season. I want to talk about all of that today in this video. Talk about the predictions for the squad that could be coming out today for Bundesliga and of course the content that we could be getting today as well. But right as we loaded into FIFA, of course, we did see that loading screen. This is the loading screen that EA put out for us today kind of teasing Bundesliga team of the season, right? And I think we may have figured out who some of these players are. We have the left side 99 pace, 90 dribbling with the Bayern Badge. A lot of people are thinking that this is Nabri. So Nabri I think is this card. A lot of people are saying that Royce is the one here in the middle. And then Zakaria is I think somebody who could be that 93 rated with 93 defense and 97 physical. That could be your front three, I guess is what you could call this from the loading screen today. So that's what people are talking about. But regardless of what happens, they have been absolutely juicing these team of the season cards. I would expect that to be no different today. Headlining the promo today, I would not be surprised if we have ourselves a Robert Lewandowski card that is 99 rated 98 or 99. Last year team of the season Lewandowski was 98 rated and EA has been going all out with the ratings this year. So a plus three on this 96 Lowa, I think is going to push him to a 99. I think that's what EA is going to give him. And it's going to be a juiced card, right? There's a lot of cool cards and a lot of cool Bundesliga cards already in this game. And I think today for team of the season Bundesliga is I think arguably the second most hyped up league as a league as a whole in FIFA. So I think that today is going to be a massive weekend for team of the seasons. And we'll talk about all the market movements and stuff later on in this video. But I do want to look at a prediction, right? Because that's the first thing we want to talk about today is a just what kind of cards are coming. What can we expect, right? This is from FC Wolk 99 on Twitter. This guy right here, a prediction from him. A lot of people saw this prediction this morning on Twitter and they thought it was the real team. So this is just a prediction, right? Don't get that wrong. This is just a prediction. But again, this prediction was made before the loading screen came out today. And Zakaria with the same statistics on the loading screen if that actually is his card. So that's the awesome prediction by Mr. Wolk right here. But a 99 Lewandowski, Sancho Werner. Who else have it? It's Nabri, Muller. I mean, these are all very, very, very possible cards that we could be getting in Bundesliga team this season today. A couple of them that I think are worth pointing out that would be very, very hyped. And a lot of people are looking forward to our Nabri because of the amount of stat boost that he has had this year. If he gets a team this season card, which I think he will, it's going to be correct.  Whether it is a right mid, whether it's like a striker or some sort of position change, Nabri is going to be one that a lot of people look forward to this promo, as well as Alfonzo Davies. He had an SBC earlier this year. A lot of people loved that card. And if he gets a team in the season, he's really, really good in game. A lot of people are going to want to use this card, especially because the Boatang SBC that is in FIFA, it's a flashback Boatang. The player SBC that is out indefinitely has drawn a lot of hype, as well as, like, no-year cards because of, you know, some Bayern links and Bundesliga links. So this Davies card could have a lot of hype. And then Sancho, of course, Werner. And somebody who I don't see on here, but I think could possibly get in, is this guy, Erling Holland. 92-rated multiple special cards. I mean, even since joining Dortmund, I mean, this guy has had so many special cards. This year in FIFA, they gave him a man-of-the-match card. They gave him a future star. I mean, he's at Informs to add a player of the month, very overpriced player of the month. But I think this guy gets a team of the season card today. And that's going to make it interesting, right? Because in past team of the season, we're going to look at FIFA 19. Tats, if you look back, we had Jovic last year as a striker, but most times your elite strikers in the Bundesliga are Lewandowski and Timo Werner. And we're adding a third one in there with Holland if he does get a team of the season. So I find that interesting today. But again, I want to talk you guys through some cards that I'm interested in today, market movements, maybe some investments and stuff that we can make today, and also other stuff you're going to see on the market. So let's say Lewandowski gets a team of the season, which I think he definitely has to the year that he's having. He's having a fantastic year.  We're killing it before the whole coronavirus. But by the way, if you guys didn't know, Bundesliga actually starts up tomorrow on Saturday. So I'm actually excited to watch some football on Saturday. Hopefully you guys are going to tune in as well, because it's going to be freaking dope to actually have football to watch again. Live sports. Love to see it. But anyways, Lewandowski team of the season. What kind of prices can we be looking for on day one for these cards? Well, let's look at last year for kind of a price standpoint, but we also have to look at cards this year and know a lot of the team of the seasons this year are a lot cheaper than they have been in the years past because of the amount of supply that EA is putting on the market for these cards. And that's what makes reading these prices early on so difficult because of the amount of supply that EA is putting on the market with these cards. So last year, team of the season Lewandowski started off, first weekend was actually above 3 million coins, dropped off in the week and they sell off down to 25. And then of course, last year, what happened with all these cards was they hit their lowest on Monday, Tuesday, rebounded into the weekend. So he was 2.7 million and then kind of, you know, went down from there because he was just a bit overpriced then. Lewandowski's headliner card is 550K on the PlayStation, over 60 on the Xbox, which this is actually up a little bit from what it was earlier this week in the midweek. But this is the kind of stuff you're going to want to look out for panic selling in the morning for on today, on Friday. When you're watching the market this morning, watch for panic selling on Out of Packs Bundesliga special cards and especially ones that are going to get team of the seasons that a lot of people are going to need to use or want to use and maybe trying out a team of the season card or two when the new team comes out today. Looking back at last year's squad, the links that you're going to want to think about when you're trying to put some of these cards together, Bayern Munich links are going to be key. Look how many Bayern Munich guys were in the squad last year, right? Lewandowski image. I think there's a couple on the bench. Nabri. So there's actually only three, but a lot of German Dortmund and Bayern Munich links. There's a lot more Bayern Munich cards this year in FIFA. I mean, you have like Alaba shapeshifter, you've got the Boateng SBC, you've got the Alphons of Davies SBC, Lewandowski has plenty of special cards. Nabri, of course, has more specials. So looking out for links to a lot of the new cards that could be coming, especially if you look at this prediction again, you know, German Bayern and Dortmund links are going to be huge for a lot of these cards because that's how, you know, right, especially now when a lot of people have gotten team of the seasons, right? A lot of people just got LaLiga team of the seasons in their clubs and if they're trying to make some sort of hybrid squad, strong links are key for these next coming weeks with the new leagues to come out because maybe somebody packed Ramos and Carvajal, but they want to have like Dortmund as, or they want to have a Dortmund player at right wing. So Sancho at right wing, they might need that Royce card or another Dortmund, maybe like a headliner Delaney would be a strong link to that Sancho at right wing because the chemistry for the, like the hybrids basically is important. So that's just something to think about when you're looking at out of pack special cards today, right? Look for ones that are going to get team of the seasons because a lot of the time what happens is people will sell this Lewandowski card possibly in the morning this morning and then his new team of the season is going to come out. I would say it's going to be similar to Suarez, maybe a little bit more expensive. That'll be kind of a starting place where you can kind of base on how much it would be. But if this, the new 99 Lewandowski that comes out, if it is, you know, two million coins right away and this card is still 550,000 coins or gets panicked a little bit, then you might see a rebound on this card. That's what we saw last week with some of the Laodiga special cards, right? Messi's, especially position change cards, right? Like a John and Sancho might not be the best example because a lot of his cards, if he gets a team in the season, I mean, it's going to be really juiced up. It's going to have insane stats. And, you know, he does have a position change center attack in mid, but the stats on that card and that's only a 30K card, right? I don't think you would see a huge movement on a card like that. But just kind of look at the out-of-packs specials. Lewandowski is a great one. Again, we can look at Nabri as well. Just try to stick to the big time links, you know, between cards. This is actually a left wing, right? 70K for this man of the match, Nabri. He was actually 55K earlier this week and now he's up to 70K, which is pretty crazy. But again, just watch the out-of-packs Bundesliga stuff. German, Bayern and Dortmund links are going to rain key. And then also, this is something that I really want you guys to look for. You can make some of these buys on the out-of-packs special cards. Actually, when the team comes out and you see the players in the squad. Last year, there were no center backs at all. No center backs in this team this season. There were two left backs, two right backs. Actually, there were three left backs. Schultz, Kostich, Halstenberg, and then two right backs, the Kosta and Kimmich, and there were no center backs. So what happened was, there was a center back in Suley, who was in community team this season, and that card absolutely exploded in price because there were no Bundesliga center backs last year. Now, this year, that's an entirely different story because we have guys like Kabak. We have guys like a center back. What's his name? Alaba, a center back Alaba who might even get a center back card today. How much is this card these days? I'm probably way off in terms of price. This Kabak, he's like a hundred K, like 90,000 coins for this card, but there's so many Bundesliga center backs that have come out in fee for this year. They've seemingly like, and we had a flashback, Hummels. I mean, we've had so many Bundesliga center backs. Even if some get into team this season, that's not really a thing for this year, but when the new squad comes out, right, left wings kind of interest me. Like again, we were looking at that NABRI card today, left wing position change. And he's now 70,000 coins. But just look for weak spots in the team. We're probably going to have three strikers, right? I mean, we might have a striker Haaland, we might have a striker Lewandowski, and a striker Werner. So those three strikers in the team, there's not going to be a lack of people that if they're going to go build a team with the new Tots cards for Weekend League, they're not going to have to go choose between many other strikers out of pack special cards. So maybe look at center mids, maybe some outside backs. I don't know. We have a right back Kimmich card. We have DeCosta for birthday. That could be something to look at as a possible rebound today. And then left backs as well on the market. I'm not entirely sure how many left backs we have like in on the market that are Bundesliga. So what I would do today is look on the out of pack special cards in the Bundesliga and look for those big time links. Look for panic selling as the team gets maybe leaked or as you see the team kind of revealed. However, EA decides to do that. And again, just look for like weak spots, right? If you don't see many like center mids or CDMs, one way that you can actually search for these players on foot bin is go to leagues, top five, go to Bundesliga. And then from there, you can sort by position, right? So let's sort by position CDM, CM and Cam. Now there's probably going to be, you know, four or five players that are CM, CDM or Cam in team of the season. But just to kind of think about this and look at it, you've gotten a Kevin and Babu shape shifter CDM card. We've got multiple center attacking mids that are on the market with Kai Havertz and Julian Brandt team in the season. Some of these cards are up already. Tiago team in the season. This card's up like 15,000 coins, right? Coutinho has got a center attacking mid inform. So there's a lot of center attacking mids in the Bundesliga. But this is something you kind of look for like left backs. Who do we have? We've got Nico Schultz and David Alaba, right? So I would be very, very interested in those two kind of cards right here. And even Wendell with the UCL live, I would take a close look at cards like this, maybe right backs as well. Because those are the positions that people really need to link in. DeCosta is 135. DeCosta is really like on the market one of the only right backs. So I would presume that we maybe get like a, maybe a Kimmich team in the season today. Maybe they give DeCosta a team in the season. I don't know, you know, according to this prediction, there is a Hakimi team of the season card that is included. And do we have any other right backs? No, just Hakimi and Trimmel. Okay, so Hakimi and Trimmel. So that's just going to be something you look out for when the team actually comes out today. Look for some weak spots in the team, maybe where there's only one team of the season and it's going to be expensive or that position for that range. That's something to look out for today in terms of, you know, buying the panic selling on some of these special cards. And of course, like somebody like Halan, right? If he does not get in, you know, this guy is like 800,000 coins for his top version. This could still be a card that a lot of people want to go and get and could still see a rise after 6pm UK. It's all about, again, those links about the hype players and people that want to use those, right? So that's just something to look for today with the out-of-packs Bundesliga cards. Talking about SPC fodder as well, we're going to have lighting rounds. Again, we're going to see a lot of these cards continue to drop in price. A lot of the demand is going to go away for some of these higher-rated. I would expect them to slowly drop in price over the weekend with lighting rounds, stuff like that. You're going to see those drop. And then Bundesliga rare gold cards. You're going to start to see people buying these up by the thousands this weekend during lighting rounds. How much is Rishika? This is the guy I always check. Are these getting Insta-bought? Okay, not quite Insta-bought, but there are people that are buying up these Bundesliga gold rares. If you want to do this, if you want to take a little bit of risk and hope that EA brings out the same upgrade SPCs on Monday, you can do that. I would just recommend getting these rares on bid during the lightning round periods. You might be able to get them on bid for like a thousand coins. I would say if you can get them for a thousand or less, that is kind of like your good-to-go zone so that you're not assuming as much risk. If you're buying them for 1.4K, I mean, I'm seriously telling you guys, so many people in this community and on FIFA influencers have told their viewers to go out and buy rare gold cards for the Bundesliga and for the leagues after this, that I honestly think you might see less of a rise in these cards if and when the upgrade packs do come out on the Monday. Just because so many people have invested in them, they're expecting a huge rise and the rise just is not going to be as big as it was because you have all these people going to sell these cards on the market. So again, if these cards get anywhere close to like, you know, nearing 2,000 coins before the actual SBC comes out, that's ridiculous. Again, I think the most I would pay for a Bundesliga rare gold card is like 1,000 coins, maybe 1,200 max. But yeah, that's what I think you could see today on the market. And then with the out-of-packs team of the season cards, let's say like we have three strikers that come into team of the season from the Bundesliga. Like again, I talked about the Halan, talked about the Werner and the Lewandowski. You might see guys like Suarez or maybe a Benzema or maybe a striker like Abame Yang from a past, you know, Premier League team. You might see some of these guys actually drop in price because people want to go try out the new card that is in the game, right? So that's something I would be just, you know, watching out for last week when the La Liga Tats came in, the Bundesliga and the Premier League cards, excuse me, the Premier League cards actually took a hit in price, especially like a Gallic Van Dyke. I mean, this guy was 2.9 million coins, right? 2.9 mil. And then all of a sudden, there are multiple new centerbacks that are released and now this guy is 2.2 mil. And he just kind of dropped all week in price because you had three big-time centerbacks and then another SBC with Militão, Diego Carlos, Verón and Ramos that came out. So that's what I would, the thing that you can look forward to today is where the positions are sparse with special cards and where there aren't that many in the actual team of the season squad. A lot of those cards can go up. Point in case, it's right here with my Thursday flipping investments. I bought these Griezmanns at 115 to 120,000 coins before rewards on Thursday because I knew that there weren't many left wings in La Liga. There was a Hazard Inform, Griezmann Inform and then the new Griezmann team of the season card. Those were like some of the only left wings in the league and these went up a very considerable amount. Somebody else, there was not a lot of strikers in La Liga on the market in like that middle tier range from 100,000 coins all the way up to like where Benzema was and Suarez was at like one over a mil in the million coin range. This Venetius Junior went from 320 on Wednesday before rewards, sold mine at 400,000 coins. I made a lot of coins on this guy and then right backs as well because we had Carvajal. Carvajal was decently cheap, 300,000 coins but I looked at the lower tier of right backs as well with this Emerson. This guy was 100,000 coins flat earlier in the week and I noticed there was not a lot of right backs kind of in that price bracket. There was Emerson and there was Kappa and he linked to the new Militao that everybody wanted to go out and do along with Diego Carlos and he's just Brazilian. Anyway, so I went out and bought 25 of this guy around like 105,000 coins per card and I made almost 500,000 coins on this one card selling 105 to 130-ish on 25 of these. So it's not quite 500k, I don't think but it was close to 500k on those cards. That was a massive, massive profit for me on the weekend and that's the stuff that you can even do day one of the new team of the season card cars that are coming out in FIFA today. So again, watch the Bundesliga specials across the board, seriously, strikers, center-mids, any Bundesliga card that you can be looking out for. Position changes are also really, really key like this David Alibis center-back card. If he gets a center-back team of the season that's gonna be very, very interesting but if he gets a left-back team of the season you might see a card like this actually rise up a little bit. I know there's a lot of center-backs but a lot of them have been SBCs as well. So the cards on the market even if there's a lot of SBCs if there's not that many that are actually on the market you could possibly see a rise there and if he does get a center-back card and it's absolutely insanely juiced out I mean people still need buyer links so this might be a guy you look at tomorrow at 140k which is really low already for this card you might see a rise on somebody like this. So do a little bit of research when the team comes out tomorrow survey the team and you should be able to see some increases in price as we head into the evening because again there's gonna be lighting rounds open there's gonna be again this is how I want to talk you guys quickly through the low price during lighting rounds what's gonna happen with the TOTS cards and then the buyback so what happens will be the cards will drop for the first two and a half hours or so let's pretend it's the TOTS he's gonna start up here first hour there's no save packs so it's gonna be a lot like last week they're gonna drop drop drop there's going to be a buyback somewhere in between the second and the end of the third lighting round so what is that for you guys like 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. UK time somewhere in there there's gonna be a quick rebound where people start to buy stuff back the cards get really rare and they jump up and then they're gonna probably drop into the evening kind of like we saw last week with La Liga that's what I would expect for the team the season card movements on day one so if you want to try one and you can wait a little bit I would say wait a little as we go into the night and maybe you can pick one up late night Friday night into Saturday morning and then sell it later on Saturday for a profit so that's just something to think about with the TOTS cards as well but that is the video today team of the season, Bundesliga is here I'm stoked for it I'm hyped to see the cards that EA bring out I would expect an SBC and an objective as well they've been pretty consistent with dropping those first day in FIFA so if you enjoyed this video smash the thumbs up on it comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new it's been Nate Foot Accountant catch you guys later peace out


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Hi, guys. Good afternoon. We're here for our next presentation. With us here we have Jamie Schmidt. She specializes in content strategy and information architecture. She's the community evangelist at Sightloch. And she's here to talk to you about making security make sense. Thank you. So my name is Jamie Schmidt. I'm the community evangelist at Sightloch. I'm also a freelancer and I've been doing freelance for almost 10 years now. With agencies doing contract work at enterprise level all the way down to building pro bono websites for nonprofits. So I kind of work in websites on every scale. And I've seen the pain points of all of them. And every single one has pain points. And I'm passionate about WordPress and Drupal and content enthusiasts. I love to do content strategy. I'm very vague about planning things out before I implement them. And security is one thing that I like to plan out before hacks websites get implemented under my care. So this fits in totally with everything that I believe in. I'm also a crowd cat mom in Portland, Oregon. So we're going to cover kind of a bunch of stuff today. But it's not going to be so info heavy that you're going to feel overwhelmed. I'm trying to do the talking in a sort of way where you're going to come out with more of a holistic understanding. And hopefully inspiration on putting some sort of a security strategy in place on your sites. So we're going to talk about securing your own site, your client sites, the benefits of all of those things. And then some security best practices, just very sort of like baseline best practices. And then some strategies for actually integrating that security part into your overall web development phase. So just really quickly, who in here builds websites for people? That's what I figured. Also, who has ever either had their own site hack or had to fix a hack site?    It's a lot of times is never the same thing twice with new clients. Sometimes it is the same thing twice with existing clients if you're only steps to fixing a hack site or to restore backup because that doesn't actually fix the vulnerability. So we even move on to the benefits of securing your site. It seems like these are kind of obvious that there are benefits of securing the site. But the first one is pretty much own your reputation. Website hacks happen all day, every day. I think it's like four to four attacks are attempted on your website, any website, every day. Whether or not they get in really has to do with how lockdown and how secure the site is. But it's especially important when you are the person that is providing the website services. A lot of times clients have an idea that since you're the one that built their site, that it's completely secure, it's just sort of assumed that it's not going to get hacked. And it's assumed, usually by the client, that you're the person that is in charge of making sure it doesn't get hacked. That's not necessarily the way that it goes. So a successful attack on the site can make you look bad to your client. If your own site is hacked as developers and someone tries to go to it and Google pops up the notification that it's not a trusted site, that doesn't look good for you. And people aren't going to call you for that. They're going to be like, well, this person's site is hacked, I'm going to go look for someone else.  And yeah, so having your own site hacked is looked bad. So on your reputation, being the first point of a successfully secured site is the best place to start. But then the second thing, the second reason is getting the client familiar with security best practices, getting yourself familiar with security best practices. So that's a part of your sales pitch so that it becomes an ingrained part of what you watch out for, what you're concerned about, what you tell the client about at the beginning of the project. All those things are going to help both you and the client be able to start thinking security from the beginning. So sometimes it's hard to sell that to a client because it's a weird thing where if your site is not hacked, you think, why would I spend money on security services when your site isn't hacked? And I know a lot of times we end up getting new clients because they have a hacked site and they need someone to fix it and the original developer is nowhere to be found. So at that point, yes, they know they need website security and they're probably going to be more open to putting security measures in place after that happens. But you don't want the client to get to the point where their site's hacked in order to convince them that it's important to put the security measures in place. We want to avoid it from the beginning. And then just in general, it's protecting your business. It's protecting your business and your client's business. And you have a lot of goals as being a website provider. You want to make a beautiful site. You want to make a site that's got all the coolest technology, web technology on it. You want it to be able to do really cool things, manage the content. But if the security isn't addressed, none of that really is going to end up mattering because all the clients are going to remember is they built me a site that got hacked. The benefits of securing your client's sites sort of covered that. It's sort of obvious. It's in your best interest to secure the sites that you build. You don't want the client to come back to you with a hacked site and you suddenly don't look professional. But especially when you're inheriting websites developed by someone else and I learned this the first time this happened a couple of years ago to me, I inherited a site from a client who's a WooCommerce site and we're talking about how she wanted to update her payment process saying, okay, and then it eventually comes out that the way her payment processing works is through a custom form that a developer built for her and the reason it had to be custom was because she specifically asked him when this credit card payment is processed, can you email me the customer's credit card number? So she was giving all these credit card numbers emailed in to her. And that was a huge red flag for me, obviously because that's a very obvious security issue right there. But just, you know, another thing that that means is her previous developer didn't care about security or maybe he didn't know about it. So what else did he do or she do that could have been really badly implemented? And the thing is, you don't always find out about these things. The clients doesn't necessarily know that there's been bad security practices put into place when their site was built. A lot of times you get inherited a site that's super out of date and maybe plugins haven't been updated in ages. Maybe the last developer had a commercial theme that they edited the code directly and they instructed the client, never ever update your theme because it'll break. So like those kind of things, they happen when you inherit a site. They happen when you're not the person that created the site. Hopefully you're not doing those things, if you don't do those things, you are. But also, interest because hacked sites and calls from clients never come at a convenient time. It'll come like while you're away on the weekend or on a Friday night at like nine o'clock at night and a frantic customer that whose site is down or who's just got an email from their hosting company saying that their site has been taken down isn't something you can ignore. You can't just be like, all right, I'll get to it on Monday because that's like super unprofessional and it's leaving out a vulnerability like that up is going to open them to even further attacks. So if they don't happen in the first place, you can avoid all of that and then it just kind of generally is peace of mind. Just doing a review when you inherit a site, doing a review of the security. Is there any security in place? Are the plugins updated? Has core code been edited? That happens sometimes. Looking at all these kind of things, finding them when you first take on a project because these days there's a lot of sites that are already existing. There's new companies coming out all the time that we're building sites from beginning to end from scratch but a lot of times we do get those old sites that have been inherited and it's just really important to take a look at security measures that are in place and if they're not in place then you can be that awesome new developer that they've hired that is thinking about things that their previous developer didn't think of. So the more things that you're like, oh wow, they don't have this in place. That really should be in place. Now suddenly that client is thinking, wow this person really knows their stuff. My last developer didn't say anything about security. So it gives you peace of mind and just makes you look good. So the business benefits. In general, making the internet a safer place for everyone is sort of our responsibility as developers because clients don't know this. They shouldn't necessarily know it if they've never had a website or if nobody has ever told them. As the developers though, we know these things. We know how often it happens. We know how easily it happens. So for us to be like the main first point making sure that the sites that you put up are secure is the best way to kind of get the ball rolling to make sure that the client knows to make sure that they're making good decisions moving forward. So I kind of have a little analogy here. I like analogies. I think a lot of times in web development we like to use analogies because sometimes explaining more technical things to clients is hard for them to grasp. So if you can sort of abstract that into an understandable thing it can help them to understand. So who is responsible for security? Yes it is your responsibility to know about it and to tell the clients, but you the client or the web host depending on which of these people you are you would probably think it's the responsibility to gather two. But the truth is it's all three but ultimately it comes down to the client. So the analogy here is an apartment complex. The client lives in an apartment in a big apartment complex. You build the apartment complex and you sold it and that's cool. You built it with locks on the doors. You built it so the windows can't easily be... You built it in order to be somewhat secure. So on the web host they're kind of like the maintenance person in the apartment. They make sure that the locks work if you use them. They make sure that maybe there's a locked lobby that everything that the builder put in place works. And then there's the client who is responsible it is to lock their doors. If they have locks on the door and they're not using them and they get their house broken into you're not going to blame the person that built the house and you're not going to blame the maintenance person because the locks are fully functioning you're just not using them. So being able to use that analogy with clients makes them sort of understand yes, the web host has responsibility. Their responsibility is to making their servers secure. So they want to make sure that they're hosting their database and the files in two separate places. They don't want to take on an infected site and suddenly have that site infect all the other websites on the hosting. So they're protecting themselves and then if they do see that your site is compromised they pull it down to make sure that it can infect any of their websites. But the client ultimately is the one that will get in trouble if their site gets hacked and for example credit card numbers is stolen or any of those things. So it's kind of everybody's responsibility. But it can really set your business apart and increase your value by coming up with things that maybe other developers haven't really thought of or they don't want to deal with. So I was a freelancer for about ten years. I eventually learned about a lot of different facets of building an entire website from project management, design, development, security, all those things. And you kind of realize pretty easily the better you get at things the less time you have to spend on each one of those if you want to do a really good job. And as a single freelancer it's not always practical for you to try to do absolutely every single thing. So a lot of freelancers don't talk about security. They don't talk or think about SEO. They don't talk about maintenance packages. So who in here offers a maintenance package to their clients? That's probably maybe a half to a third of everybody who builds websites. That's actually pretty high. But that's because we're awesome developers that go to work camps, right? But a lot of people don't even have those in place because maintenance is kind of a pain in the butt. Sometimes when you're working on a project, you're like, oh my God, thank God it's done. Go, leave me alone. I don't want to see you ever again. This is a nightmare. And you don't really necessarily want to support it anymore because you want to be done with it. But adding the maintenance and the security maintenance in with it can actually give you additional revenue. So I know it's a freelancer for me. It was always hard. There's always a concern that once this project is done, what's my next project? And if you're only going both project to project and lining up the projects without any sort of recurring revenue in place, then yeah, it can get a little bit scary if you don't have clients lined up. That's the whole freelance or feast or famine. Right after you get paid, you're super rich. And then at the end of the project, you don't have a new project coming in and you're sort of poor and you've got to wait until the next one comes up. Adding in these security services and the maintenance services can give you this residual income. And so maybe now instead of just going big project to big project, you do a big project, so then you also need five clients who you're doing maintenance for and maybe each of those clients brings in $150 a month. So right there, that's like $750 bucks that wasn't coming in. And really, most maintenance that you do really isn't all that hard. It's making sure you're keeping things updated, making sure you're checking any kind of security reports. And a lot of that, if there's no issues, a lot of that can be done 10 minutes a month, maybe, for each client. But you're sitting there, again, you're sitting there watching it, so you're catching things instead of fixing them after they get hacked. So the benefits of communicating the need for security. Why would you bring it up with a client in the first place? It's sort of obvious, but we want to sort of communicate three things. A lot of times when you try to start talking, technical things with clients, they tune out or they start to feel overwhelmed or they start to feel like they're not, they don't understand enough to make a decision about things. So if you break it down into some security best practices, each section of it, just kind of break it down in an easy to understand chunk. You can sell those little chunks a little bit better. So one of the first questions is why do people hack websites? One of them is just because they wanted to face the site. They want to take down your site in its place, be Haxor was here, cool, yeah, you did it, right? And those were happening for a long time in the 90s and the 2000s, but nowadays you don't see that so much. And the reason is because right now it's mainly a lot of bots that are automating these attacks.  That doesn't really happen anymore. But the biggest reason is for a financial gain. So they're trying to automate some kind of an injection into your site or maybe a redirect to another site where they're going to try to direct people to a fake version of your bank so you can log in and they get your information. Or they're going to try to weasel in into your server and try to look at whatever you have saved in your database, maybe you have some client information, all those things. So it's mainly for financial gain and it's not often someone just literally sitting there trying different passwords. Like that flat out doesn't really ever happen. So the word malware actually stands for malicious software. It's like software, it's not like people. It's automated malware that is being scanned.  And if they see this vulnerability they automate something that was built just to pop in through that vulnerability. Which is the reason that pretty much the number one and best thing that you can do to secure your site is to keep it updated. Wordpress being completely open source. When we release patches to security patches we most of the time will immediately publish that and tell them oh yeah there was this vulnerability. So now that that vulnerability is known spam or hackers malware malware bots they know exactly what that vulnerability is. A lot of time they can even put that vulnerability into Google and return with a list of websites that have it. So they immediately see everybody that has that vulnerability in. One thing that Wordpress did in the past few years was automated updating. And this is very important and it's very good that they did this because when updating was not automated people would leave their sites forever never update and they would miss all those security patches. So Wordpress sort of has a reputation for being insecure and it's not true Wordpress isn't insecure but the people who own the websites aren't maintaining it properly for it to be secure. Yes, Wordpress version 1.3 is insecure nobody's running it because everybody's upgraded. So keeping things updated number one thing but when are these attacks happening? The answer is literally all the time it's not just happening to small businesses or it's not just happening to enterprise level it's anyone. If they can do a scan a search through all the websites on Google and find this one vulnerability and find all the sites that could be someone as big as CNN it could be someone as small as Jones flour shop they literally don't care they will attack every single site that comes up. So I'm going to just quickly show you this Norse antivirus thing if you go to this Norse antivirus.com or something this is a little bit of a live data visualization they have created and it's just a small example of site attacks that are happening constantly so these are all live and this actually isn't all the sites that are all the attacks that are being attempted if we were to try to show them all my computer would crash like we would consume the bandwidth of this entire Wi-Fi because there's so many so they sort of average it down and this isn't actually just people's hacked sites this is just a small portion of honey pots that Norton has set up to try to attract these automated these automated malware bots and they created just an idea of how many things are being attacked there's no vulnerability here because they created it up it's sort of like that T-Shell bait car where they put the car in place to get it stolen and then as soon as someone takes off they turn the car off it's sort of like this it's not real websites but it's it's things that have vulnerabilities that do exist in other websites and it's happening constantly so not a question of when does it happen because it's literally always happening so five simple web security best practices if you can go through these five and get the clients to understand all these things and to implement all these things and if you can implement all these things you're going to mitigate most of the attacks that are going to be happening on your website and it sounds like that's a little bit oversimplified but it is it's true so the first one is backups this isn't really a security measure it's more of a recovery measure creating backups to your files and your databases to make sure that if something does happen you can backup and you can restore previous version of your backup while that backup is working you can then take the hack site you can trace back to find the vulnerability stressing though that just restoring backup is not going to fix your site because that backup probably still has a vulnerability in it too so once you restore backup you have to go and you have to figure out what was wrong fix it and then push those changes live but having the backup on hand all the time is going to be the number one thing that will help you get a grasp on what's going on and be able to start fixing things really quickly so updates technically this is number one this is the number one thing that you can do to make sure that the most basic reasons you would possibly have hacked are mitigated so it's not just WordPress core so like I said WordPress core just do automated updates but a lot of those updates that core does means that the way plugins and themes work they have to also update process things so a lot of big issues come because maybe you do have WordPress up to date but you don't have your plugins up to date so that vulnerability could still be inside of one of the plugins so it's important to update the plugins the themes if you have a commercial theme or any kind of a theme that's not custom made and core if your theme is custom made hopefully the person who created it has good security knowledge also not going to want a custom development but keep everything updated strong passwords unique passwords so in general the number one security fail across everywhere is the it's on the human end of things it's not on the software writing very insecure passwords like the word password like the password 1111 all those that's basically leaving your door unlocked and if you're locking your door if they do get past the gates, if they do get past the locked lobby your door can also try to stop them there's a website it looks up it looks up your email and your associated passwords and it lets you know if that those passwords have been discovered anywhere so you can kind of take a look login with your whatever user accounts you use and see if they know your password, if they do know your password you probably can do it so firewalls and CDNs now we're getting into services it's not practical for you to go out and build a firewall or a CDN so these are service things firewall it acts sort of as a big gate around your apartment complex so a lot of things are being stopped before they even get to your apartment because they hit that firewall and they just bounce back they can't get in and all so there's so many things that can be stopped by just having a good firewall there's options there's a free firewall that you can download in the plugins directory I don't remember exactly a lot of security software plugins offer a firewall so that's a really good number one thing CDNs, so CDN is a content delivery network that means that it takes all of your files instead of sitting on your own hosting wherever your hosting is it takes those files it duplicates them onto a CDN and so now those files are hosted and they're being accessed at someone else's server it can speed up your site too because the CDNs are typically they have 100 different servers around the world so instead of pulling it from one place it's pulling them from a lot of places but those two things go a really long way towards starting to protect your website and then continuous monitoring so this basically means if Google detects there's some sort of malware on your website it's going to affect your SEO ranking it's going to show a little notification that hey this site is suspicious do you want to continue and it basically exists as blacklisting you you don't want that to happen so you want to be able to have an automated website scanner that is constantly looking at your files and checking to see if anything's changed so if you're updating a plugin obviously the files are going to change if you're just updating your content on your website it's probably just staying in the database but checking out the files, if the files are changing without your knowledge and it's not because of an update that means that someone got in and is making changes maybe they've written a script that is sending out crazy amounts of emails maybe they've written something that is spying on what you do there's so many different things but being able to monitor when those files change and being able to get that file out of there when it does change or restore it to a better version can stop it before any attack happens as a result of that being in there security in the project scope so this is sort of all leading to this part right here including in the scope right away it's a thing who includes security considerations when they create their RFP so okay that's like not many, that was like four people using their hands to forget it's an easy thing to not include in there but including in your project scope from the beginning and saying hey this is a priority we need to address these things it's part of the project it's part of the work that I do for you I don't build a website unless it has these security measures in place because I'm smart that sets the stage for now you don't really compromise on that it's not going to be like nah I don't want the security it's not a question you say it's a part of the process and then you maybe build that in with your existing scope or you set it out as maybe it costs X amount of money to implement something so including the scope just makes you look more professional it makes your client trust you more one thing that when I was doing a lot of freelance one thing that I've had project managers say to me is that they really appreciate how honest I am with them and that makes them trust the things that I say and do a lot of times I know as developers we get this sort of imposter syndrome where we're like okay we can't let everybody know we don't know how to do something because people immediately think we're a failure we don't belong here blah blah and that's really not true especially in my experience with clients if there's something that I don't know how to do or I've never done it before I tell them I've never done this before so I'm just going to let you know that I'm sort of estimating it's going to be this but the further we get we might find out it's actually this so like that amount of transparency makes them assume that you're telling the truth about all the other things also so having that trust with the client they're going to trust you when you say you need a firewall they're going to trust you when you say know your password can't be the word password to keep them informed from the beginning I guarantee you they're not thinking about security probably not thinking about security unless they were just hacked because if you think about that old cartoon from the the oatmeal where they're like at the beginning of the website project beautiful project and everyone's excited and the design is beautiful and everyone's like it's going to soar like an eagle in the sky it's going to be amazing and gorgeous and then as the project breaks down everyone's just super depressed and they just want it to get over with in the beginning of the project you're just thinking all really good things and cool things that you're going to do like if you're doing a redesign and they're existing site looks really crappy you're just like oh my god this is better this is going to look so good in my portfolio they're using whatever manual system that they're using in order to do reservations or blah blah once I automated this with WordPress and saved them so much time so you're thinking about all the good things that you're going to do and all the positive ways that you are going to affect their business you're not really thinking about the security because you're not thinking about bad things that can happen so if you include it as part of the beginning and you say to them this is an important factor in building this website then it's already set the stage for them to be thinking about it okay so quickly backups one very important thing is to host backups on a different server so personal experience story time again I had to migrate a WooConner site this was just a last year and we were migrating from some smaller host to site ground and and it wasn't a big site you know they had maybe 200 products and so I went to try to migrate the site and I was looking and it said the site was like 90 gigabytes and I'm like why is your site so big oh we have a lot of products I'm like okay alright you know a lot of times people are uploading huge images I was like possible okay that's feasible so we moved them over my bad for not taking a look into that more deeply we moved them over and we realized that we were at such a high level posting that was kind of a cost of money and I'm like okay I should go in and look at this what are we doing here where we got here and the files look pretty normal at first and I was like nothing here is like really suspicious but then there was the one folder I don't remember what they were using for backups but it had its own separate folder and I loved and they had backups of their site in that site folder since like 2009 so and posting backups on a different server is important for that reason right because it's like ridiculously huge but if somebody gets into your site and they're looking maybe through FTP or whatever and they're looking for your files there is a lot of like the database will be stored in there a lot of times and they literally have access to absolutely everything once they have one of your full site backups so make sure that your backups are being hosted not on your websites most web hosts will have if they have automated backups they will usually have them on a separate server just make sure that you're not saving them under the same server so backups you can get them through your host a lot of times hosting companies will try to make their backups more efficient to save time and space etc so they won't actually do a fully restorable backup they'll do a backup that is sort of like for certain parts and then like they kind of get their little tentacles in the rest of the backup and it's like kind of useless if you want to migrate it someplace else a lot of good amount of hosts do this not all of them but just make sure that your backup is fully restorable also make sure that you actually have access to the backup some hosts make backups but it's only for their own access in case technical support needs to do something for you that you just paid them money for so even though they're doing all these backups you might not even be able to use them at all in case your site goes down unless you give them money sometimes it's a slainly higher hosting level sometimes you have to go in and manually do it yourself just make sure that if there is backups happening make sure you understand what kind of backups they are and make sure you have access to them because if they're not restorable and if you don't have access to them it's basically like you don't have backups at all there's WordPress plugins that you can actually use to do these automated backups WellPress, BackupBuddy, Uptrop Plus all of them have paid versions I think they all have free versions WellPress is automatic the company automatic and they can all be automated so that it's automatically making backups and they can also you can customize where those backups are being saved so not on your not on your files you're saving them someplace else email, you know, wherever you can also automate with a backup script this is advanced developer-y things or you can do manual backups manual backups kind of stuff you don't really want to have to do that if you're going through an FTP program downloading files it takes forever so you can go into your PHP MyAdmin and get a zip of your database save all that together it's fine but when you have when you have to do this once a month and maybe you have 5 clients you don't be wasting time on that you want something that's going to be automated in a pinch though you can do a manual backup so benefits including security as a service when you mention in the beginning and then when you mention it again in the scope it sort of sets you up to be able to demand a higher price for your services because you're going to be giving them more than they would otherwise get if you would now that you're starting to include the security it makes sense that now your services are more valuable so maintenance plans I recommend if you want to do maintenance plans have maybe three levels at the most maybe via so maybe the first level is I will literally just have something watching your site and telling me if a file to do this right or you can go all the way to something that's much more in depth and be like I will make sure I'm watching your site if anything happens I will pull it out I will manage the file you can do whatever you think you have time for whatever you think you want to do you can offer it at different services and then list them on your website you can even type a monthly subscription one thing that's awesome is recurring billing like having recurring billing coming in as a part of your income is super awesome you know every month on next day of the month you need to give a file a cash and that you would normally be having that if you didn't have the maintenance packages you didn't have the security packages so you can even be doing that setting up the recurring billing if they are paying you on your website easy digital downloads like a membership pro can all do that PayPal payments pro automate the billing so you are not just chasing down clients and creating a new invoice sending a new invoice waiting to get back to you so if you can automate it why not or you can just have it as an add on service so one time cleanup of a hacked site initial setup just getting them set up with that firewall getting them set up with the file monitoring or just an evaluation and review which is what I should have done with the client that was emailing you know credit card information tell them I can take a look at it and I'll review it and if I see things we can discuss and then I can quote the fix as well or just sort of read the consultation okay so the benefits of automating those things obvious kind of like what I said with automating your backups being able to automate these things means that you're not constantly just going in logging into every single website are there updates yes update update update update and if you have to do that with 5-10 websites a week that's going to take a lot of time so there are services out there managed WP infinite WP my company site lock also has a thing where you have a dashboard that you can take a look at all of your sites adding lamps and then all of these lists out all the websites that you might have and it can tell you this was affected it can tell you which sites have plugins that need to be updated so having all your sites managed and accessed to one place you can see where the problems are you can do those updates I recommend doing updates on staging not online for obvious reasons right but use the schedule so once you start doing this having a schedule to remind you like oh this day I have to do these maintenance tasks makes it so that you're not sitting there at the end of the month spending way more time than you thought you were going to be or worse that you completely forgot to do it because having a client paying you for things that you're not doing is bad and then password management this is a really cool thing that you can just tell the client about and start using yourself things like last pass and one password are their repositories that save your all your passwords encrypted I use last pass it has a browser extension when you go to a website it can be like hey I see you're on this website fill the login and password and doing that means you don't have to try to memorize passwords so you can have those ridiculous uppercase R lowercase c password because you don't have to memorize them and getting a client set up with something like this means that they're creating passwords that they don't have to memorize either so even just getting set up with this is a super big help just to summary your site and your client's site included in the scope best practices maintenance and reporting that's the end I wanted to go back to something you mentioned about being honest with your clients I was wondering if you could talk to my wife about that because she yells at me I mean I'm serious we have a client who is also a friend of hers and she keeps telling me that you don't know this she thinks that you mean you don't know it at all she doesn't know that you don't know the latest version of whatever I wanted to kind of yes so that's a matter of saying that you don't know something in the right way something about being in a job interview and they're like what are your worst attributes what is the worst thing about yourself you're like oh I'm late to everything I never finish in a job you know like I don't get along with anyone like I pretty much just stop like you don't say that even if it's partially true maybe you're gonna say I've never worked with it in this capacity I've never worked with it on this hosting I've never worked with it with this third party service on this budget so make sure you say I've never worked on this exactly but and then you say yeah pieces of excited in a way that is a positive um just like in the job interviews like you know you know I'm late to you know I'm late sometimes but then I'll stay in extra two hours every night be clearly there yeah be clearly there was there anything else on what was the I've been password domain again thing that you could check oh this one no yeah oh oh boy what was that that's okay oh there halivanpwn.com you can just google that but it is halivanpwn it's pwned.com slash passwords most famous in spain the recurring revenue slide okay so the recurring revenue slide oh yeah these are just three examples of how you can do that there's a lot more out there ebd and ultimate worship or work trust plugins that ultimate worship is a membership plugin you don't necessarily have to have a membership site in order to use it but it sort of it sort of makes sense that each one of your clients that's using that would be a member of that service and then easy digital download is pain and processing and sales for digital files so but they do automated billing there's an add on for it so I wanted to ask about breach so it's better happening our sites might get hacked or some of our data might get out there on the left and you're up there using law that requires people to ethically disclose when you get breached and then you ask them not to talk about law yet that might happen but I wanted to know how you talk to a client or talk to a website owner about this conversation how do you tell your users that they may have been hacked or something may have happened or how do you tell your client that may have happened and if you even thought so so unfortunately I've never had to tell a client that they now have to tell all of their customers that they have lost all of their content or their information has been breached I don't have the answer on how to say that to people but I have it has happened where a site that I built has been hacked and you know if you have these processes in place then that's sort of easy it's like oh they got through on XXY because this update wasn't updated if it's literally your fault then it's your fault maybe the issue happened and you weren't due to check the updates for another two weeks a way to sort of mitigate that is to try to be aware of updates that all your plugins have coming in you can get a mailing list once you have these different plugins they'll usually email you when a new version comes out or if a big security vulnerability is happening in core you can assume that your plugins are going to be updated after that if it happened as a result of them saying no to the security thing that's pretty easy you're like well I told you that'll be $500 nice to fix it is it's actually kind of a big deal because under this new law GDPR you as a website agency could be considered a data processor beyond just the controller rights so you can carry some legal possibilities potentially if you're dealing with your data yes so the GDPR is a big thing that's coming down and the funny thing is it's not just if you're living in Europe it's if anybody that comes to one of your client sites lives in Europe they're protected everyone's protected I don't have the answer to that it's a big discussion right now I don't think anybody has a great answer for it it's easier like you're in Europe automatically you have to do these things it's harder to be doing it in other countries where we don't have that law we don't have to do it I don't have an answer for that and I think that in the coming months and years it'll probably be worked out a lot better maybe we will adopt our own version of it maybe I don't know shameless blunt we are doing a panel at work camp orange county about GDPR and I can tell you security is going to be a major part of what we're talking about awesome well I will be there so he said that at work camp orange county they're doing a big panel on the GDPR and security is a big part so if you can make it up to that that would be cool tickets are still on sale thank you thank you