theCUBE presents Ignite 22, brought to you by Palo Alto Networks. Greetings from the MGM Grand Hotel in beautiful Las Vegas. It's theCUBE, live day two of our coverage of Palo Alto Networks Ignite 22, Lisa Martin, Dave Vellante. Dave, what can I say? This has been a great couple of days. The amount of content we have created and shared with our viewers on theCUBE is second to none. Well, the cloud has completely changed the way that people think about security. You know, at first it was like, oh, the cloud, how can that be secure? And then realized, wow, actually, cloud is pretty secure if we do it right. So shared responsibility model. And partnerships are critical. Partnerships are critical, especially as more and more organizations are multi-cloud by default, right, these days. We're going to bring Google into the conversation. Josh Haslett joins us, strategic partnership manager at Google. Welcome, great to have you, Josh. Hi, Lisa, thanks for having me here.  Talk to me a little bit about your background and about your role at Google in terms of partnership management. Sure, I feel like we need to add that to my title. You should, secret squirrel. Great, yeah, so as a matter of fact, I've been at Google for two and a half years. Prior to that, I was at Palo Alto Networks. I was managing the business development relationship with Google, and I was kind of at the inception of when the cash came in and decided that we needed to think about how to do security in a new way from a platform standpoint, right? And so it was exciting, because when I started with the partnership, we were focusing on still securing workloads in the cloud with next generation firewall. And then as we went through acquisitions that Palo Alto added, it expanded the capabilities of what we could do from cloud security. And so it was very exciting to make sure that we could onboard with Google Cloud, take a look at how not only Palo Alto was enhancing their solutions as they built those and delivered those from Google Cloud, but then how did we help customers adopt cloud in a more easy fashion by making things more tightly integrated. And so that's really been a lot of what I've been involved in, which has been exciting to see the growth of both organizations as we see customers shifting to cloud transformation. And then how do they deploy these new methodologies and tools from a security perspective to embrace this new way of working and this new way of creating applications and doing digital transformation. It's important since work is no longer a place, it's an activity. Organizations have to be able to cater to the distributed workforce. Of course, the workforce has to be able to access everything that they need to, but it has to be done in a secure way, regardless of what kind of company you are. Yeah, you're right, Lisa, it's interesting. I mean, the pandemic has really changed and accelerated that transformation. I think really remote working has started previous to that and I think Nikesh called that out in the keynote too. He really said that this has been ongoing for a while but I think organizations had to figure out how to scale and that was something that they weren't as prepared for. And a lot of the technology that was deployed for VPN connectivity or supporting remote work, that was fixed hardware. And so cloud deployment and cloud architectures, specifically with Prisma Access, really enabled this transformation to happen in a much faster manner. And where we've come together is how do we make sure that customers, no matter what device, what user, what application you're accessing, as we take a look at ZTNA, Zero Trust Network Access 2.0, how can we come together to partner to make sure the customers have that wide range of coverage and capability? How would you describe Josh, Google's partner strategy, generally and specifically in the world of cyber and what makes it unique and different? Yeah, so that's a great question. I think from Google Cloud perspective, we heard TK mention this in the keynote with Nikash. We focus on building a secure platform, first and foremost. We want to be a trusted cloud for customers to deploy on. And so we find that as customers do one of two things, they're looking at reducing cost as they move to cloud and consolidate workloads, or as they embrace innovation and look at leveraging things like BigQuery for analytics and machine learning for the way that they want to innovate and stay ahead of the competition. They have to think about, how do they secure in a new way? And so not only do we work on how do we secure on platform, we work with trusted partners to make sure that customers have, you mentioned it earlier, Dave, this shared security model, right? How do they take a look at their applications and their workloads and this new way of working as they go to CI CD pipelines, they start thinking about DevSecOps, how do they integrate tooling that is frictionless and seamless for their teams to deploy, but allows them to quickly embrace that cloud transformation journey. And so, yes, partners are critical to that. The other thing is, we find that you mentioned earlier, Lisa, that customers are multi-cloud, right? That's kind of the new normal as we look at enterprises today. And so Google Cloud is going to do a great job at securing our platform, but we need partners that can help customers deploy policy that embraces not only the things that they put in Google Cloud, but as they're in their transformation journey, how that embraces the estates that are in data centers, the things that are still on-prem. And really, this is about making sure that the applications, no matter where they are, the databases, no matter where they are, and the users, no matter where they are, are all secure in that new framework of deploying and embracing innovation on public cloud. One of the things that almost everybody from Palo Alto Networks talks about is their partnering strategy, their acquisition strategy integrations. And I was doing some research. There's over 50 joint integrations that Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks have. You talked about Zero Trust Network Access 2.0 that was announced yesterday. Give us a flavor of what that is, and what does it deliver that 1.0 did not? Well, great, and what I'd like to do is touch a little bit on those 50 integrations because it's been a building rolling thunder, shall we say, as far as how have we taken a look at customers embracing the cloud? The first thing was we took a look at how do we make sure that Palo Alto Solutions are easier for customers to deploy and to orchestrate in Google Cloud, making their journey to embracing cloud seamless and easy. The second thing was how could we make that deployment and the infrastructure even more easy to adopt by doing first party integrations? So earlier this year, we announced Cloud IDS, Intrusion Detection System, where we actually have first party directly in our console of customers being able to simply select they want to turn on inspection of the traffic that's running on Google Cloud, and it leverages the threat detection capability from Palo Alto Networks. So we've gone from third party integration alone to first party integration, and that really takes us to the direction of what we're seeing customers need to embrace now, which is this zero trust strategy. And Zero Trust 2.0 helps customers do a number of things. The first is we don't want to just verify a user and their access into the environment once. It needs to be continuous inspection, because their state could change. I think the teams we're talking about some really good ways of addressing, for instance, TSA checkpoints, and how does that experience look? We need to make sure that we're constantly evaluating that user's access into the environment, and then we need to make sure that the content that's being accessed, or loaded into the environment, is inspected. So we need continuous content inspection, and that's where our partnership really comes together very well, is not only can we take care of any app, any device, any user, and especially as we take a look at embracing contractor, like use cases, for instance, where we have managed devices and unmanaged devices, we bring together BeyondCorp and Prisma Access to take a look at how can we make sure any device, any user, any application is secured throughout, and then we've got content inspection of how that ZTNA 2.0 experience looks like. Josh, that threat data that you just talked about, who has access to that? Is it available to any partner? Any customer? How? It seems like there's gold in them in our hills, so there is. But this could be gold going both ways. So how do you adjudicate and how do you make sure that, first of all, that that data is accessible for good, and not in how do you protect it against wrong use? Well, this is one of the great things about partnering with Palo Alto, because technically the threat intelligence is coming from their ingestion of malware, known threats and unknown threats, right? Into their technology, Wildfire, for instance, is a tremendous example of this, where Unit 42 does analysis on unknown threats, based upon what Nikesh said on stage, I think he said 27 days to identification and remediation down to less than a minute, right? So they've been able to take the intelligence of what they ingest from all of their existing customers, the unknown vulnerabilities that are identified, quickly assessing what those look like, and then pushing out information to the rest of their customers, so that they can remediate and protect against those threats. So we get this shared intelligence from the way that Palo Alto leverages that capability, and we've brought that natively into Google Cloud with Cloud Intrusion Detection. So okay, so I don't know why I have high-frequency trading in my mind, because it used to be, like the norm was, oh, it could take a year to identify an intrusion, and now it's down to, it was down to 27 days, now it's down to a minute, now that's best practice, and again, I'm thinking high-frequency trading, how do I beat the speed of light? And that's kind of where we're headed, right? And so that's why he said one minute's not enough, we have to keep going. You guys got your best people working on that? Well, as a matter of fact, so Palo Alto Networks, when we take a look at what Nakesh said from stage, he talked about using machine learning and AI to get ahead of what they look at as far as predictability, not only about behaviors in the environment, so things that are not necessarily known threats, but things that aren't behaving properly in the environment, and you can start to detect based on that. The second piece of it then is a lot of that technology is built on Google Cloud, so we're leveraging, they're leveraging the capabilities that come together with aggregation of logs, the file stitching across the entire environment from the endpoint through to cloud operations, the things that they detect for network, content inspection, putting all those files together to understand where has the threat vector entered, how has it gone lateral inside the environment, and then how do you make sure that you remediate all of those points of intrusion? And so yeah, it's been exciting to see how our product teams have worked together to continue to advance the capabilities for speed for customers. And speed, secure speed is critical. We had the opportunity this morning to speak with Lake Claridge, the Chief Product Officer, and one of the things that I had heard about Lee is that despite all of the challenges in cybersecurity and the amorphous expansion of the threat network and the sophistication of the adversaries, he's really optimistic about what it's going to enable organizations to do. I see you smiling. Do you share that optimism? I do, I think when you bring leaders together to tackle big problems, I think we've got the right teams working on the right things and we understand the problems that the customers are facing, and so from a Google Cloud perspective, we understand that partnering with Palo Alto Networks helps to make sure that that optimism continues. We work on continuous innovation when it comes to Google Cloud security framework, but then partnering with Palo Alto brings additional capabilities to the table. Vision for the partnership. Where do you want to see it go? We're two to five years down the road. What's it look like? Maybe two to three years, let's go. Well, it was interesting. I think NIR was the one that mentioned on stage about how AI is going to start replacing us in our main jobs, right? I think there's a lot of truth to that. I think as we look forward, we see that our teams are going to continue to help with automation, remediation, and we're going to have the humans working on things that are more interesting and important, and so that's an exciting place to go because today the reality is that we are understaffed in cybersecurity across the industry, and we just can't hire enough people to make sure that we can detect, remediate, and secure every user endpoint and environment out there, so it's exciting to see that we've got a capability to move in a direction to where we can make sure that we get ahead of the threat actors. Yeah, so he said, within five years, your SOC will be AI-based, and basically he elaborated, saying there's a lot of stuff that you're doing today that you're not going to be doing tomorrow, and that's going to continue to be a moving target. I would think Google is probably ahead in that game, and ahead of most, right?  I mean, I remember when Hadoop was all the rage, like just at the beginning, it was like, yeah, Google was like, you know, we're not doing Hadoop anymore, that's like old news, so you tended to be, I don't know, at least five, maybe seven years ahead of the industry, so imagine you're using a lot of those AI techniques in your own business today. Absolutely, I mean, I think you see it in our consumer products, and you certainly see it in the capabilities we make available to enterprise as far as how they can innovate on our cloud, and we want to make sure that we continue to provide those capabilities, you know, not only for the tools that we build, but the tools that customers use. What's the, as we kind of get towards the end of our conversation here, we talk about Zero Trust as a journey, as an approach, it's not a product, it's not a tool. What is the, who's involved in the Zero Trust journey from the customer's perspective? Is this solely with the CISO, CSO, CIOs, or is this at the CEO level going, we have to be a data company, but we have to be a secure data company 24-7? It's interesting, as you've seen malware, phishing, ransomware attacks, this is not only just a CISO, CIO conversation, it's a board level conversation, and so the way to address this new way of working where we have very distributed environments where you can't create a perimeter anymore, you need to strategize with Zero Trust, and so continuously when we're talking to customers, we're hearing that as a main initiative, you know, from the CIO's office and from the board level. Got it, last question, the upgrade path for existing customers from one dot ZTNA, one dot O to two dot O, how simple is that? It's easy, you know, when we take a look. Is there an easy button? So here's the great thing. If you're feeling lucky. Yeah. Well Palo Alto, right, building Prisma access has really taken what was traditional security that was an on-prem or a data center deployed strategy to cloud-based, and so we've worked with customers like Princeton University who had to quickly transition from in-person learning to distance learning, find a way to ramp their staff, their faculty, and their students, and we were able, you know, Palo Alto deployed on Google Cloud's network, that solution in very quick order and had those, you know, everybody back up and running. So deployment and upgrade path is simple when you look at cloud-deployed architectures to address zero-trust network. That's awesome. Some of those use cases that came out of the pandemic were mind-blowing, but also just really set the table for other organizations to go, yes, this can be done and it doesn't have to take forever because frankly, where security is concerned, we don't have time. That's right.  In this case, we're talking about cloud-delivered rates. So I've seen, you know, with Palo Alto deploying for customers that run on Google Cloud, they've deployed tens of thousands of users in a very short order. You know, we're talking, it's not months anymore, it's not weeks anymore, it's days. It has to be days. Josh, it's been such a pleasure having you on the program. Thank you for stopping by and talking with Dave and me about Google Cloud, Palo Alto Networks. In addition to Secret Squirrel, I feel like when you were describing your background that you're like the love child of Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud. You might put that on your card too. That is a huge compliment. I really appreciate that, Lisa. Thank you so much. Thanks so much, Josh. It's been a pleasure being here with you. Oh, likewise. For Josh Haslett and Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in live coverage for emerging and enterprise tech.


So good morning ladies and gentlemen So we are a bit late on schedule. So I propose that we we start right now So I'm Serge Vaudonnais from EPFL in Switzerland I'm It's my honor and pleasure to Share this session. So as you know the program committee decided to award a few papers In these conferences we have we have seen one presentation on Monday we have seen one presentation yesterday and Today we will see the presentation of a served a paper with which received which was awarded by the program committee and this paper Apparently creates a new branch of cryptography cryptography so the The paper is by Alexander Russell Matthew and Hong Sung Choo and the talk will be given by Kang Tan Everybody hear me well Thank you for the introduction and also we thank the PC members to for the recognition of the paper Dr. Copeland's already gave us this very strong motivation We need to provide some some tools for the little David to fight against the giant Goliaths. So here is a is one I'm going to talk about Cryptography clipping the power of kleptographic attacks is joined work with Alex Russell, Moti Young and Hong Sung Choo So we know that modern cryptography have achieved splendid success in the last couple of decades both in practice and theory in particular a Large amount of efforts have been devoted in crypto theory trying to precisely Define security models for a capture real-world attacks so that we can Establish some kind of rigorous security arguments while Real life is sophisticated the simple-minded crypto is very challenging for the simple-minded crypto to perfectly More capture all the real-world attacks. So that's the quote I put here Despite all those great advancement still has long way to go in fact There's still a huge gap between the security practice and the crypto theory. I Still this picture from the economist which originally trying to describe the post election life Which I also found quite fit here as you might You may guess depending which community I'm talking to I might swap the names of the two sides But the reason it makes perfect sense is that the gap actually due to responsibilities from both community one fact of In this gap is that there exists an implicit assumption essentially in every single cryptographic Models that the security can only be guaranteed unless we trust the implementation So the current tradition is that once cryptographers have designed and analyzed the cryptographic algorithms Then little job is done someone gonna implement it correctly While putting trust on implementation. It's very dangerous That you already give us a great demonstration that all kind of possible attacks could happen Besides the Intentional countless bugs due to the programmers More and more evidence was shown that intentional sabotage on the implementation could happen here I can give you more real-world examples So this is something called Xcode ghost, which is a pirate version of Xcode It embeds back door to every single app that is compiled from it If you use the app compiled here, then it's likely your personal information will be revealed This is the notorious wolf's wagon the emissions scandal they intentionally tune our device To change the behavior when they are tested for a mission while the specification doesn't say so I Guess most of you have heard of this touching letter from Apple that they claimed They do not want to cooperate with FBI to even unlock One of the terrorist iPhone But a hidden message behind this letter or the unintentionally is that they do have the capability to unlock everybody's iPhone Quite interestingly this reason that real-world attacks were actually formally demonstrated 20 years ago in some theory It's which is called kleptography, which is a science of stealing information Subliminally from black box implementations. This is due to Adam young and multi young Very simple example can be seen as follows. We all know and love RSA a version of the textbook Rca generation could be done as follows. We choose to run and prime so multiply them And you and we choose a random exponent as a public key While the implementation do not have to follow exactly as the specification It may it still generates public key and secret key, but it may contain some backdoor or special instruction to that To guide the the adversely at the malicious implementation to do something different And to give the adversary some more advantage in particular a Special attack can be seen as follows Again the malicious implementation generates a prime factor as before but Instead of sampling the running exponent or the exponent Runly they directly encode one of the prime factor into the public exponent now it follows immediately that To the implementation provider who has the backdoor can directly decode from the public key to get the prime factor and completely break the security of RSA Well, what's worse is that to everybody else who does not have this backdoor The maliciously generated public maliciously generated output of this public a public exponent actually looks perfectly fine as Like randomly distributed very quite unfortunately Adam and Morty got quite lonely for quite some time The security community don't really take this attack so seriously Maybe it's mainly considered as some theoretic and geeky attacks 20 years later this gentleman Tells the word Siri can't go to practice But not in a nice way So in the Snowden revelation there's actually exactly a less something called due easy student name generator Which exactly carries this type of attack by generating malicious public malicious public parameters So the the real threat of such kind of collateral attack is that the adversarial implementation can leak information Well, this is not something surprising But this can be done Even the output distribution of the malicious implementation can be almost the same as that of the specification So this means no black box test a no black box testing ever find this kind of suppression So after the Snowden revelation this big impact on real-world Consequences our community started to react and a lot of great work emerged but quite unfortunately most of them are Studying some kind of more powerful more sophisticated attacks and showing more depressing impossibility result Well, our life is already miserable enough. Can we get more positive news? In particular one of the most in notable noticeable result Will was due to Bollari Paterson and Ragui Crypto 14 they essentially show that any type of random subverted randomized algorithm can be used to launch this type of Cryptographic attack. That's quite devastating But the state of the art for defending is a little bit less Satisfying because of the subliminal subliminal channel attack It was that was suggested that we may have to give up on randomized algorithms One immediate consequence is that we have to assume the key generation to be honest Also, the encryption algorithms We have to use deterministic version. So this means we can never achieve CPA security for public encryption Also, the crackness of the malicious implementation is essentially directly assumed There are also some other interesting perspective considering defending One of the most interesting one probably due to the artist at all using assuming some kind of trusted reverse firewall but the critical Factor here is that they need some trusted source of randomness Which is not clear where we can get if we can't have trusted randomness actually It seems the subliminal channel attack will simply go away So the status is somehow looks a little bit like this to me So it's for defending actually is the situation is widely open from theoretical point of view, we don't even have a Agreement on what is the right model? what do we mean by security in this new setting and We essentially know very little Equivalent to know what to do about the subverted randomized algorithms If we think just simply giving it up. It's also a good option and Very few functionality have been considered This is far from being understood basically we don't have understanding at all So the long-term goal is that we want to design some kind of system that can be immune to such kind of kleptographic attack and We won't even want to build a parallel theory of cryptography in this new setting We call it cryptography we do devoted quite some effort and made some Progress along this line the first of course is definition with cryptographers love definitions and We want to lay down the foundation of this kleptography So we propose a general definition of framework which enabled us to derive our hierarchy of definitions a Quick remark here is that we explicitly permit the adversary to subvert every single algorithm within one cryptographic primitive This is a quite different with previous works that assume some algorithms such as key generation to be honestly implemented with the taxonomy settled We would like to some do some real job Can we actually mitigating the damage of subverted algorithms? Can we somehow dance with this subliminal channel so that? still the Some of the primitives can be preserved the secure in this very devastating setting and we want to achieve this with a minimal change in the existing specification so that it can be immediately deployed To be more concrete we consider the subversion resistant trapdoor augmentation to run a number generator and digital signatures Let's have a brief look of the what we mean by kleptographic model So the story now goes as follows the adversary implements some Functionality and post it for use so the regular user what can I do? They can simply they can only take it and use it hoping it's secure Well, I also exist a new entity called watchdog who has the specification can be denoted by some industrial lab or whatever He will take the implementation and interrogate it compare with the specification try to do some detection In more detail, there will be three participants in this security model So again adversely is still there, but it's more powerful because now the adversary is allowed to Not only playing the game to break security, but also provide malicious implementations The challenger also still there, but the challenger got much more restricted because he's now only allowed to use malicious implementation to play the game to play the traditional game with the adversary Well, the new entity watchdog simply just do a black box testing Cute feature a characteristic to mention here is that normally such kind of powerful attack Launched by implementation providers or specification for all standardization agent agency, right? They are they might be quite malicious. They want to break security But in some sense, they're also proud. They don't want the public to know what they are doing They want to keep the subversion under the radar So the adversely is a goal here is two-fold break security, but keep the subversion under the radar So the security in this new setting is just the other way around Either the watchdog can detect the subversion or the primitives will still be secure in the some kind of Upgraded the security game when when user simply using malicious implementation Actually the real modeling procedure is quite Sophisticated depending on the quantifier the power of the watchdog the form of implementation actually there exist Multiple variants of the definition. We encourage you to take a look of the paper of all possible models One might immediately Have a question since in the kleptographic attack is essentially demonstrated No watchdog can find out the subversion, right? That was the point of having this watchdog What was the use of it? The watchdog can at least do some very minimal thing to ensure the implementation at least is not completely crazy For example for deterministic algorithm with a public input distribution The watchdog can simply just sample evaluate and compare right to ensure the consistency But for randomness of a randomized algorithm, for example, randomness generation No watchdog can ensure the output to be uniform But at least that the watchdog can ensure the randomness The output has certain amount of entropy. Otherwise the watchdog can simply observe a lot of collisions by repeatedly running the implementation So the main idea of this whole cryptography actually is how we can amplify This very minimum trust or very minimal guarantee provided by the watchdog by very delegate Specification design so that we can boost this very tiny Tiny guarantee to ensure the security of the whole cryptographic print. We want to mitigate subliminal channel as the major task and One critical factor here is the key generation has to be randomized. So we have to deal with this situation Let's consider one of the most basic building block in crypto, which is one way permutation. Everybody knows what it is and Suppose some adversary want to launch the klepto attack on one way permutation. What can he do? She can simply Supply a malicious key generation or index generation implementation and keep the implementation somehow undetectable Here I ignore the evaluation component because it is a deterministic Function with a public input distribution. So it would be almost consistent The attack is actually very simple It simply echoes the folklore knowledge that random padding is dangerous So imagine there's a part of the index actually will be directly output So this redundancy will be explored and used to embed the back door or Here the back door is directly in the form of a trap. So the attack here itself is not super exciting But it tells us some intuition that if the attacker wants to launch a klepto attack She has to make the output Contain some kind of structured information to help her to gain some advantage Thus in order to mitigate this subliminal channel, we have to mess up with this structure This reminds us some conventional wisdom in life called nothing up my sleeve Which is usually done by magicians when they are do the open right showing nothing is hidden here and Actually, it's very interesting such kind of concept was widely deployed in security practice Something called nothing of my sleep numbers so if Consider we want to have some public parameter or public constant We don't want to be under control of any of the agency We can simply go to the mother nature to choose some part of pie or the base of the natural logarithm So this taken as a Constant ensures no one can have full control of it, right? No human can have control on the nature These are great brilliant practical ideas, but We want to bring One step further we need some kind of key generation, right? So we need still introduce some kind of uncertainty We need to in order to mitigate some such kind of subverted key generation Essentially you want to build something like a nothing on my sleep keys or parameters? It's quite nature or intuitive to think if we Proposed the specification to Contain two component one again is the key generation and together with a harsh So the actual output is that will be the harsh applied on output of the key generation a Quick note here is that both component can be subverted neither of them can be trusted The only thing is in force is that the specification has to contain these two component Well, the intuition why this works is quite simple So for any backdoor it can only influence a very sparse subset of the indexes I mean otherwise the specification itself will be insecure So Mapping a polluted index by dispersing it to kind of a uniform random points in the domain We are very likely to map it to a safe place Well here why we can use the subverted the harsh function again It is because of the fact the harsh function is a public is a deterministic function with public input distribution if we check carefully So with this intuition we can actually formally demonstrate with the Slightly adapted the new specification and assuming the specification of the harsh function is modeled as run Oracle Then we can show this is actually subversion resistant Well, this simple idea can be bring further One of the the first interesting observation is that we may be able to do the same thing to say Do you see children I'm a generator and What it makes more interesting it is that it was demonstrated in Eurocript paper due to Dottis at all they essentially prove that it's impossible to clean the output of the do you see should run a generator by even applying a trusted run or so these are just Just clean different part of the PRG Give us opportunity to sidestep this impossibility result So these are this basic building block. We want also want to do something more to build a high-level Crypto schemes for example one thing we choose to consider is We similarly save trapdoor or representation and then we try to use this as a building block To construct the full domain hash to save the key generation of the full domain hash signature scheme Along this way we find we have some more interesting observations So the simple full domain hash proof actually cannot go through in this new setting, which is quite surprising I will explain a little bit more why But fortunately the reduction from one implementation to PRG still preserves This facts hint a little bit that the whole landscape of cryptography in this new setting Might be completely different. So we may reconsider consider a lot of things so I Guess a lot of you many of you are very familiar with the full domain hash proof so that the the critical parts here is the Reduction has to somehow embed the one-way presentation challenge into the run Oracle purists of the adversary of the signature and This is folk knowledge. I already knows but in the crypto setting the one-way permutation challenge Has to be generated by the malicious implementation While the run Oracle curies can be made even before the adversary is actually building the implementation so now there's no way to similarly embed this challenge into the run Oracle Curie because When when asked for run Oracle curie the reduction may not even see the challenge yet So to fix this Signatures again, we need to revise for domain hash a little bit The idea is also quite simple. We want to force all the useful queries that made by the signature adversary All have to be after the implementation is provided This can be achieved by simply hushing the public key together with the message why this works because the public key itself has to be Generated by the malicious implementation. Well, if the adversary don't supply the implementation He will never get any useful query Or if the adversary wants to carry a real useful message He has to get the public key first, which she should provide implementation first So a quick summary here that the real message I would like to deliver is It's actually possible for us to do something meaningful that we can defend against such powerful attack on randomized algorithm, but with only with also very minimal trust and very Minimal change by redesigning the specification for another a little bit more theoretical note is that The whole landscape of cryptography when we add in this one more dimension Without the trust on the implementation might drastically change So the impact there are those five words in this setting might be completely different So many results here was revisiting since this is really The beginning of a largely unexplored area many things are many problems remain open. So I only highlight some of the Most interesting or critical question to us Here for example, all we talk about in this paper is try to mitigate in subliminal channel But the subliminal channel here still exists at least that the whatever we do here Still the adversary can leak at least like one bit of information For some primitive might be fine as we demonstrate in this paper But for other primitives like encryption one bit of leakage already destroyed the CPA security Also, there exists another much simpler attack. It's called a hidden trigger Just imagine a signing algorithm which directly reveals the sacred key when sign a specific message It turns out that this very simple attack is much more challenging to defend Of course, you can also consider how to remove the run or call blah blah blah So before I close the talk actually there are more good news So we do make some progress along these two most important questions. We just I just mentioned with another trick of the Of the specification we can actually destroy the subliminal channel generically by introducing a very mild assumption of independent execution and Doing this can help us to save the most important cryptographic primitive public encryption and also preserve the standard security Also, we want to achieve digital. We also achieve the digital signature with only our offline watchdog So what does that mean? So the current signature scheme to defend against the hidden trigger We have to introduce some kind of online version of the watchdog Which is piggybacked at the implementation which checks every single transcript, which is very hard to instantiate so this involves some quite new technique of self-correcting run or call then we would It get them a quite interesting result for signature So with these two pieces of good news, I will finish my talk and take question. Thank you Any question for you? I'm curious with the with the idea of the nothing up your sleeve number I think that there's I mean obviously you never know where a parameters come from if it came from NIST For example and people have asked and then this doesn't remember can't figure it out And so maybe there's something up their sleeve and maybe not but how like what's a really good metric for determining when We actually would want to nothing up your sleeve number versus something well formed Because I can imagine one way to backdoor a specification would in fact be to put a nothing up your sleeve number into the Specification when in fact you wanted something that was like well formed in some way It wasn't just totally random and by using something that's totally random you've actually backdoored the specification So how do we have a rigorous analysis of of those in terms of specifications? That's a great question. So what I mentioned here is that yeah, we only In the talk we only consider the example that the parameter should be uniform somehow without any structure But if we indeed need a structured data, we can have a very simple paradigm that splits any randomized algorithm into two parts London is generation and the other deterministic part turn the random coin to the structure the output Right, actually, that's how people do in practice. It's simply whenever they need a random coin They call some external library right what we need to show it ensure Here is that we just need to ensure the random coin is something nothing up my sleeve Well, if you really need the structure later, then we just feed the clean the coin to the sampler But great great question any other question, so I guess it's time to have a break. Let's thank the speaker again


Almost many things teach us how to love but nobody has ever taught us how to undo the love. The idea of building relationships is that it's of support in all levels of life. In every way, two people can do better than one person, that is the idea. So, moving on. My question is very relatable to the audience as well. Heartbreak is something that I think everybody… I hope it broke your heart. So, heartbreak is something that almost everybody goes through and especially at some point of their time. And I remember in fact my teacher once telling me that it is… at your time you love, you break and you learn to love again and again and again. But the beauty… Who is this teacher? Sorry? Who is this teacher? That's a top secret. The beauty of it is that you fall in love again and you break but then it always ends up healing you again. I wonder, Sadhguru, everybody teaches us how to love. Movies, poems. Really? Bollywood. If you do the things that you're doing in the movie, nobody will love you. Literature. Almost many things teach us how to love but nobody has ever taught us how to undo the love. What about breaking hearts? I don't have a broken heart because I gave away my heart very early on in my life so nobody can break it, you know? I gave it away. You should do that. Then nobody can break it. See, we must understand this. What is a love affair? Is it okay? Mechanics of love affair? We can look at it. I'm not trying to de-romanticize everything. It's just this. Let's say you were ten years of age. You looked around. The world was quite normal. Hello? Was it normal when you were ten, twelve? It was normal. I'm not picking on you because you're in the first row, okay? So it was looking quite normal. Suddenly after some time you got little poisoned, chemically poisoned. Then you looked. Every little bump on somebody's body looks like a world by itself. Hello? Till then everything was okay, isn't it? You're ten, twelve, it's okay.  Suddenly this is a world by itself.  Yes? Yes. So this is because your intelligence has been hijacked by your hormones. So it is making funny things happen. It is making you believe all kinds of things.  There's nothing wrong about it. But it's very important that we understand what's happening to us.  It is not a question of morality. It is a question of handling our life sensibly.  Yes or no? You had serial heartbreaks. It looked like fun for some time. After some time you just don't actually trust anybody in your life because another human being is a problem always. Only when our emotions allow you to cross the problem, in some way they get included. But if we have serial heartbreaks, we will never allow our emotion to cross those barriers. We will always be cautious because anyway this has come with a... what? Expirited. When people come with an expirited, yes, there is an expirited for all of us, but relationships, the idea of building relationships is that it's of support in all levels of life so that two people, that means two brains and two bodies can do better than one in many ways, in various aspects of life. In profession, in domestic situation, in life, in companionship, in emotion, in arranging and organizing our lives, in every way two people can do better than one person. That is the idea. And of course nature is pushing us together because nature doesn't care about your love affair. It just wants you to reproduce. Yes?  But we've overdone that a little bit. There's no hurry, we don't have to yield to that. Hello? Yes?  Human beings definitely not endangered, we are endangering everything. So reproduction is not the purpose right now, we have kept it aside. But nature's pushes towards that. But we have emotional needs, physical needs, psychological needs, maybe financial and social needs, variety of needs to conduct these needs in a dignified way. To conduct these needs in a... See once you come as a human being, you can't do things, though they are the same things what the animals do. But we would like to do it more gracefully, consciously. Whether we eat or we copulate or we sleep, we like to do it little more aesthetically right. That's the important thing. For that, we need the cooperation of another person who is also somehow congruent to us. Every two days if you have heartbreaks and going on, well, you will see the trouble of that.


Good evening and welcome to the WTCS Ambassador Recognition Event. My name is Klamisha Millsap and I'm the 2019 WTCS Ambassador from Black Hawk Technical College. I'll be your emcee this evening. This past year as an ambassador brought me several wins throughout my tenure. For instance, copious amounts of support, recognition, positivity, friendships, increased confidence in my nursing career, confidence in public speaking, and an opportunity to be an active recruiter for the school. I've learned that you never know who is watching you, and several students have told me I inspired them to take the next step in furthering their education, and a few have even enrolled in the nursing program and will graduate next semester. That feeling of someone else furthering their education and becoming the best they can be is invigorating and inspiring. Being an ambassador has also helped me see that life is not about what I can do for me, but what I can do for others. At this time, I want to personally congratulate every single one of you for committing to becoming a leader at your school and planting your seeds in healthy soil. I want to thank Baird, Morna Foy, Lisa Voisin, Connor Smith, Julie Drake, Dan Arneson, Alicia Eggert, and my beloved Black Hawk Technical College family for helping me grow as a friend, student, leader, and as a nurse. You all will forever have a special place in my heart. As you can imagine, this is not how we imagined we would be celebrating our amazing group of 2020 Wisconsin Technical College system ambassadors. Despite the circumstances, we very much appreciate that all of you, family members, friends, instructors, college leaders and staff, trustees and other guests and supporters of Wisconsin 16 Technical Colleges took the time out of your evening to be with us tonight. Our 16 2020 WTCS ambassadors had a robust leadership development experience earlier today. And now we are ready for you to join us in recognizing and celebrating these outstanding technical college student leaders. Before we hear from our 16 ambassadors, two special guests would like to extend their congratulations and best wishes. Baird, an employee-owned international financial services firm with headquarters in Milwaukee, is the generous, longtime sole sponsor of the WTCS ambassador program. Lisa Voysen is a managing director of Baird Public Finance and was kind enough to join us. She'll share her thoughts with our 2020 ambassadors. Good afternoon. My name is Lisa Voysen. I'm from Robert W. Baird. And on behalf of the whole firm, I would like to congratulate you for earning this great honor of ambassador of your technical college. We are also honored to be able to sponsor such a great program. It is always my favorite time of year to come to the banquet and hear your stories. I'm sad that it's different this year due to the pandemic. But I know that you have all worked very, very hard and we congratulate you for that. I would like to just share with you a quote from our CEO, our president and CEO, who sadly passed away this year. It really embodies how important we believe education is to anyone's future. So his quote, what he said was the American way of life or the American dream is conditioned on people being well educated. If you don't offer that to everyone, if everybody does not have that as an opportunity, then fundamentally we're not fulfilling who we are and what we say we are. So as a sponsor to this ambassador program, we're chipping away at that goal and we congratulate you for investing in your own future. We wish you nothing but the best. We wish you success in your future and thank you. Thanks to Lisa and thanks to Baird for its steadfast support of our students in this program, including a generous scholarship for each ambassador. The Wisconsin Technical College System plans the ambassador program and recognition event and system staff enjoy working with the ambassadors throughout the year. Dr. Morna Foy is the system president and will share her thoughts with the 2020 ambassadors. Good evening, everyone. We're so glad you're taking the time to join us for the celebration of our 2020 WTCS ambassadors. To our ambassadors, you are an inspiration to all of us who work in the technical college system, reminding us that through our individual and collective efforts, we make our community stronger. To Lisa and your team at Baird, thank you for your steadfast support of this program, our colleges, and our students. It is appreciated by all of us, including the ambassadors we honor tonight. To the family and friends of our 2020 ambassadors and the college leaders with us tonight, I can only say that the support that you provide to make these students success a possibility and then to help them make it a reality has made a difference for them and to the many, many others they will inspire. So it's important for us to hear directly from our ambassadors tonight. You offer a timely rinder of the power of possibility. Having been leaders in the classroom and on your campuses, you'll soon be leaders in the workplace and in your communities and champions for technical college education. After spending today building your network and finding your voice as a technical college champion, your stories remind all of us of the importance and value of the WTCS and service catalysts for positive change in the next generation of students. Congratulations again. I can't wait to hear your stories. Thank you to President Floyd and the team that makes this a memorable experience for our ambassadors. Now, it's my pleasure to introduce our first 2020 WTCS ambassadors representing Black Hawk Technical College, Casey Bennett. Hi, my name is Casey Bennett and I am the ambassador for Black Hawk Technical College in Jeansville, Wisconsin. And a lot's changed for me in this last year, even excluding the global pandemic. I found myself across roads and I needed to make a decision of what I really wanted to do with myself moving forward. And that the answer to that question led me to Black Hawk Tech and enrolling in the Edgar Business and Science program. With that, I adopted a mentality of I was going to go in fully committed. And with that, as I was going to say yes to every opportunity that presented itself, whether that meant taking leadership roles in professional agricultural students, applying and becoming the ambassador or applying and becoming a Micro Works Foundation scholar. If it was an opportunity, I was going to take it. The thing I found the most important is to remember that not every opportunity pans out and that's okay. The thing to remember and to focus on is the ones that you get the yes back from. A no isn't a bad thing. It just means that it probably wasn't the right opportunity or it was just the wrong time. As the ambassador, one of the things that I want to focus on as my mission is to encourage others to place value on their abilities, build their confidence and also take a position of saying yes to opportunities when they present themselves and making most of the ones in which they get that yes back. Representing Chippewa Valley Technical College, Carrie Burke. Hi, I'm Carrie. In July of 2019, I was a stay-at-home mom of two boys. My life got suddenly turned right upside down and I didn't know what I was going to do. I knew I needed to find work and a job that would be able to support me and my two boys. So I started looking and there wasn't much out there so I thought well why don't I finally go back to school like I always wanted. So I made an appointment to go tour in Chippewa Valley Technical College and the moment I stepped in those doors, I knew I was home. Not only was the college specialist I was working with amazing, but everybody else I met that day on tour was as well. Since that day, my life has been so much better and has opened so many doors for me. I'm a much more confident person. My children are proud of me. My family is proud of me. I've been able to secure a job for after graduation. I've met so many great people. I look forward to graduation, but I'm also very sad because I feel like everybody at the tech has become part of my family. And it's very torn on whether I want to stay or go. I know I'm ready to go, but I'm sad to go. The tech has been the best experience I've ever had in my life and I can't thank everybody there enough. We're representing Fox Valley Technical College, Drew Bazarik. Hello, my name is Drew Bazarik. I am the WTCF's ambassador for Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton. My majors are Network Systems Administration and Information Systems Security Specialist. Fox Valley has, in the past two and a half years now, has sent me abroad to Ireland for a study abroad trip. It helped me to obtain a couple internships, provided outlets for me to improve my mental health, allowed me to create and build friendships, and introduced me to new people and clubs around campus. In high school, I was always asked the question, which UW school are you going to? And after a lot of thought, I decided a UW school just wasn't for me. I wanted to go into IT and I decided that a tech school was the best option. If that was my decision, I simply just chose the tech. I felt the tech school option was best for me. And when a lot of people tour colleges, they talk about a gut feeling, saying, I can do this or this is where I need to be. This is going to be my home. And I didn't really have that. When I toured Fox Valley, I kind of had a thought process where I said to myself, I can do this. This seems like a good place to be. And I never had that gut feeling ever since then. I have not looked back and I've loved it the entire time. And I know that I made the right decision right now. I don't really know what the future holds for me. But I know that I am on the right path because I started it at Fox Valley. Representing Gateway Technical College, Megan Barr. Hello, my name is Megan Barr and I am not a failure. I know that's a weird way to start a speech. So let me explain. Before I found Gateway, I was a lonely, sad, de-average high school student that they'll class after class after having teacher after teacher assume I had no potential and completely give up on me.  That's exactly what I did. After not graduating with my class, I spent the following year calling myself a failure on a daily basis. I became my harshest critic. It didn't matter that ADHD. A disorder often described as flipping through all the channels on your TV. But instead of your TV, it's your brain. And someone else has the remote. All that mattered was that I failed. And I have let those that I'd love down. During that difficult year between high school and college, I volunteered over 1500 hours with the Wisconsin donor network. Educating the public on the importance of organ and tissue donation. In fall of 2018, I enrolled in a few gen ed courses at Gateway. The first day, I was a nervous crying mess. Each day got easier when I quickly realized I didn't have to hide from the instructors. Everyone treated me with respect and supported me. I am not alone in this journey. For the first time in almost 10 years, I am proud of my education and look forward to going to school every day. Most importantly, I learned that I'm smart, I have potential, and I am not a failure. I found a second home in Gateway. Today, I am proud to say I am now a professional communication student, a peer advocate, a student leader of several student organizations. I am also a scholarship recipient, a global scholar hoping to travel to the Ukraine in 2021, the student trustee of the Gateway Board of Trustees, an involved community member, a Newman Civic Fellow, and most of all, a very proud Red Hawk. As the WTCS ambassador representing Gateway, I am one voice who represents many students. I want to help my fellow students find their voice and path to success. Paying things forward in life and recognizing our need for connection is so important. Failure is an opportunity to change and grow with the support of others. Our stories become stories of redemption and success. I'm ready to succeed and encourage others in their journeys. I am Megan Barr and I am not a failure. Representing Lakeshore Technical College, Kalita 4. So I'd like to talk a little bit about my technical college experience. Some of you may or may not know this is not my first time going to school. I've been a nurse for almost 10 years, but during that time I kept feeling like there was something more that I wanted to do with my life. I decided to change careers and LPC was the perfect option for doing so. They offer so many programs. They're affordable. They're a local school and I really love the home feel that you get. Nice sense of community there. They offer support with a common goal of character development and personal growth. I'd have to say that the best part about attending LTC is that you really feel that everyone is vouching for you and your goals are also their goals. And I would have to say that what I've learned or what I've really gained from the position of being an ambassador for LTC is it's forced me to be put in situations that are uncomfortable. And I feel that those are the times when we can really find the seeds of success because those challenging situations force us to develop ourselves in ways that were weren't previously apparent. Certain opportunities come out because of it. So I'm really happy to be here and I look forward to what lies ahead. Thank you. Representing Madison College, Maddie Adams. Having attended a four-year university after graduating from high school, I had already been exposed to the traditional college experience for several years and left without a degree and with a fair amount of student loans. Following a string of part-time retail jobs, I ended up working at a commercial real estate brokerage for almost six years. I didn't necessarily want to become a real estate agent, so during my last year at that office, I started to explore other options related to real estate that might interest me. I learned that the state of Wisconsin allows people to become licensed as professional land surveyors with an associate's degree and four years of experience and I decided to go for it. When I told my family, friends, and coworkers about my intention to quit my job and enroll in school full-time in Madison College's civil engineering technology program, I got a lot of the same responses. Why not just go back and finish your bachelor's degree? It would take me less time than it would to complete the civil engineering tech program and I would have a four-year degree rather than a two-year degree. But I didn't want to get a degree just for the sake of having one. I wanted to learn practical knowledge and skills that I could hopefully, one day, excel at and master. And I also didn't want to end up with more of the same student loan debt that I had from before. I know that when I graduate from Madison College, I will be able to get a job doing exactly what I've learned in my classes. For example, when I learned how to do horizontal curve calculations in surveying too, it's because I might be doing them someday out in the field. We are learning skills that are directly related to our future careers so that we can start out above entry level and at a cost that's affordable. Thank you. Representing Mid-State Technical College, Luke Morolczynski. One thing I've learned from my technical college experience is that I think the expectations and pressures that we often put on ourselves have actually distracted us from sometimes becoming more grounded and connected people. I was a high school student that sadly overlooked technical colleges because I think I felt there was an expectation for me to go to a four-year university, which I did. That did go really well, but, you know, a bachelor's degree and a year in the workforce later, I was actually enrolled back at Mid-State Technical College pursuing another degree and even loading UPS trucks, part-time to keep paying for school. It was a bit of an unconventional reality check going from professional back to student, but, you know, my hindsight now knows that it's really just been a huge blessing. My time at MSTC has been really rewarding and humbling. It was a place I originally overlooked, but it has grown on me. I found to really, you know, cherish their values and their mission, and it's actually become a place of my employment now. I think sometimes the status hierarchy we're kind of used to seeing or thinking about is really just a facade. We get caught up in terms like more and better or searching after titles of status, but it's a mentality that really just causes us to miss out on cool opportunities. As soon as you think you're above or better a person or an experience, you're just going to miss out on a chance to grow. So the reality I've discovered is that if you commit yourself and put forth your best effort, that valuable knowledge, connections, and experiences can and will be found no matter where you go or how unconventional a path may seem. Thank you. Representing Milwaukee Area Technical College, Alan Lee. Hello, my name is Alan Lee. I first came to Milwaukee about three or four years ago, and father wanted to make my main reasons to move down to Milwaukee was because of my late father who passed away. It was during a time where I was just completely depressed. I was down. Another reason why I came to Milwaukee was to pursue my degree in college and also right now I am working as a student ambassador and also I am a student worker at MUTC as well and where I work at the Veterans Office where Mr. Wesley is one of my supervisors. He has helped me with my personal life and my professional life. The main reason why I came to Milwaukee to MUTC Milwaukee was because of the finance where it has made my life a lot easier and has helped me just financially be more savvy I guess. I'm currently pursuing my degree in liberal arts at MUTC. I will be transferring to UWM Milwaukee where I will pursue my major in finance as well. I would like to take my time to thank the ambassador program on a system with just my finance during this pandemic as well and for the future I would like to see myself working on maybe a bank of some sort. Maybe even become a president of a bank one day. Yeah thank you for having me. Representing Moraine Park Technical College, Hailey Van Raiden. Hello everyone my name is Hailey Van Raiden. To start off I would like to thank everyone watching this and cheering me on. You are my encouragement through these hard times. Thank you for choosing me to represent Moraine Park. My story begins in Mayville. From the time I was little I've attended small schools. My middle school class graduated with 12 kids including myself which was the biggest class to graduate from Herman. High school wasn't any different. I attended Mayville High School and graduated with 102 other students. When looking for the next educational step in my life I knew that whatever I chose had to be close to home had small class sizes and affordable. Anything else was clearly a bonus. When browsing through Google as a millennial would I found Moraine Park and instantly fell in love. I knew from that moment on that Moraine Park would become my second home. From the first day of classes I've been involved with IT club, student life, and student government. From volunteering at Houston Welcome Days or going to National Africa in Florida this year Moraine Park has always given me the opportunity to flourish in my leadership, networking, and volunteering skills. Moraine Park will always hold a special place in my heart. Lastly I'd like to give one special shout out to my parents. Thank you mom and dad for pushing me to do my best and raising me to be the person I am today. I strongly believe that if it were not for you supporting me I would not be the Moraine Park student ambassador or have the opportunities I have today. Thank you. Representing Nicolay Area Technical College, Marina Candela. Hi my name is Marina and I'm originally from Free Lakes Wisconsin. I'm studying math and economics at UW Madison. So I could tell you that in the semester I attended Nicolay I published my first piece of policy research. I was accepted to UW Madison and I overcame a disability that forced me to drop out of school in 2019. But I want to talk about what I've learned instead of what I've done. I've learned that there are certain things that are cool when you are rich but not so much when you're poor. For example, speaking two languages or living in a van. College is one of those things. The rich go to universities and the poor attend technical college. I'm poor and I started technical college when I was working full-time in San Francisco startups. I figured out almost immediately to only tell people what I do for work instead of where I go to school. I would say I run the marketing department for a small tech company which was impressive for a 20-year-old with no qualifications or a degree. But when I said where I go to school my intelligence was suddenly on trial. This stigma of failure is an inescapable part of the community college student experience. You're not a technical college student until you've been asked, when are you going to a real college? The problem is that real colleges are better designed for the affluent to figure themselves out at a $50,000 per year price tag than to teach hireable skills. Most people cannot afford an education that is increasing in price at eight times the rate of wages. We can always apply for scholarships where we rebrand our poverty and our trauma to make it more palatable, but after all that we're still going to graduate in debt. Universities are failing us. By making college financially inaccessible they're missing out on the most capable students. My classmates are working two jobs taking care of family members, risking deportation and supporting themselves in addition to managing the traditional course load designed for students whose sole responsibility is school. It's not technical college students that are the failure, it's our education system. Almost every other developed country in the world has tuition costs that are comparable to that of a U.S. technical college. Technical colleges are an exception in the U.S. however because they focus on marketable skills and affordability. They pick up the slack for inequitable public schools and inaccessible universities. They serve 46 percent of students but are treated like an afterthought instead of an example to follow. I'm grateful to have started college in an institution that serves such a diverse array of people and that my instructors understood that we all have responsibilities outside of school. But I want every institution of education to cater to people like my classmates. Not out of charity but because our ability to juggle competing priorities and work with fewer resources makes us well suited to the rigors of academia or the workforce. Every one of our ambassadors is succeeding in a system that is not designed for us. So thank you all for being here. Representing North Central Technical College, Madison Kan Dutch. Hello my name is Madison and I am from North Central Technical College. I graduated in May from the Graphic Communication Technologies Program. So in my two years at NTC I had these ideas of who I was, who I was in the past, who I am presently and who I was, who I will be in the future. Each phase I had considered the technical college system being my route for higher education. Like many others the technical college system was most affordable for my family and I. Throughout most of my life I had gone through financial hardships and I knew that receiving my higher education I did not want to go through those same financial hardships. The technical college system had offered skills and experience for me that I knew that I wanted before entering the workforce. Each day I have intentions for myself. Depending on what I'm doing that day my intentions differ but I do have the constant intention of how I can go about my day and improving myself. The technical college system allowed me to build relationships on a personal and professional level that where both professional and personal people had influenced me to push me to success. At my time at NTC I had been a graphic designer in the Student Leadership Center where I met Jenny, Kristen, Sean. They became mentors for me because they encouraged me and pushed me to always make more of myself. The treatment that I had received at NTC would not be the same as if I had gone to a four-year university. Pursuing opportunities that NTC offered me made my college experience much more than the stereotypical, it's easy and it's boring. My instructors and the staff at NTC also had kept me on my toes and had pushed me to make more of myself and my education. I am proud to be from the technical college system and I am proud to be an alumni from NTC. I stepped out of my comfort zone to make the most out of the technical college experience and I am the representation of what the technical college system can do for you. I will always appreciate NTC and the technical college system and all that it has done for me and also my future and I am confident in who I am today that I will be able to conquer anything that comes towards me in my future. Thank you. Representing Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Denise Arhorn Rivera. Hi, my name is Denise Arhorn Rivera and I am a student in the Design and Graphic Technology Program at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay. I am a first-generation college student, a proud Latina and a hard worker. My biggest motivation are my parents. I old in my life and without them a lot wouldn't be possible. Growing up as the oldest of five siblings wasn't that easy. I've had to wear a lot of hats from second mom, big sister, translator and occasionally family cook. It wasn't easy but I'm thankful because for that I strive every day to become the best version of myself and to continue to improve so that I can give my siblings a great example. I began to attend technical college about four years ago, three of them which were part-time. I've been faced with health issues and financial issues but that has never stopped me from pursuing my goals and keeping the bigger picture in mind. I've had to work up to three jobs at a time to be able to pay tuition and of course my parents would help me when they could. I am thankful for my upbringing because they have made me the person that I am today. In 2019 I began to step out a little bit more out of my comfort zone and be able to participate and be more involved in my campus and community. I was able to participate in the Rice Leadership Program series that really just helped me discover my true self and discover the leader in me. I walked away with a lot of new skills that I will use every day and continue to use in the future as well as really good friendships. I was also able to get the amazing opportunity to work as a Multicultural Intern in the Student Involvement Program, International Programs and Study Abroad. I've made a lot of really great connections and a lot of new opportunities and doors began to open for me. I want to thank the NWTC faculty and staff for their help and support throughout my journey. They are the best. Although I would have loved to speak to you guys all in person today that is unfortunately not the case. But I do want to give a big shout out and thank you to Julie Drake, Connor Smith, Dan Anderson and their team for working hard and planning to continue this program virtually. Of course, thank you to Bear for their support. Thank you to my former manager Megan Papke for nominating me as a District Ambassador and really seeing the potential in me. To Joel Richter for helping me throughout my District Ambassador journey and helping me achieve my goals. And I want to thank each and every one of you for your time today and for helping me and giving me the tools that I need to become a better person. Thank you all and I will continue to voice how important technical education is and I will do what I can to help my Latino community improve as well. Have a great day. Hello everyone, I'm Carly. My college is located in Fenimore, Wisconsin. Fenimore is a town of about 2,500 people and the college shows an estimated 2,000 students. Southwest Tech caught my eye on my first visit when I noticed that the campus was surrounded by corn fields which made me feel as if I was at home. I chose Agronomy as one of the several agriculture programs because I'm passionate about working with farmers and a career in this field provides great opportunity for that. Southwest Tech strives to be the best that they can be for the students and the surrounding community. The college lists their core values as learning, integrity, accountability, partnerships, innovation, and continuous improvement. Personally, I have noticed each of these to be true throughout the first year of my schooling. Christina Olson was the first instructor that I made a connection with as we had many common characteristics and we have remained close ever since. The staff works every day to not only do their job but to also build relationships. It is very encouraging to us students to be surrounded by positive attitudes. The entire staff is great at lighting up the halls and classrooms with their smiles and their genuine hellos. Often the faculty takes it a step further to make a connection which makes us students feel comfortable and valued. On top of that, it is also clear to me how well the staff works together. They too have built relationships among one another that not only helps our courses run smoothly but also teaches us the value of communication. The ability to work well with others is a skill that is essential for the careers ahead of us. Southwest Tech prepares us for the future in this way along with many others. It has been such a blessing to be in this position and an honor to work with Julie Connor and their team. Thank you to everyone who has played a part in organizing the Ambassador Program. Representing Waukesha County Technical College, Alyssa Anderson. Hello, my name is Alyssa Anderson. I'm in my third semester studying Automation Systems Technologies and I'm also the Secretary Treasurer of our Student Government Association at Waukesha County Technical College. When I graduated high school, I had a decision to make about my education. I'd been accepted to multiple four-year engineering programs. I was looking at international universities and I'd also been accented at Waukesha County Technical College. I ultimately made my decision by comparing the cost versus the quality of education and I came to the conclusion that WCTC would be the best return on investment for me. I had a lot of anxieties about this decision. I didn't know anyone getting a technical education and I also had no experience in automation. When I arrived on campus, my mindset completely shifted. I was welcomed by a great group of students and faculty involved with the Student Government Association who taught me how things were done and how I could contribute to the team. In my classes, my instructors made every effort to make sure those intro level courses really started from the beginning so no students were left behind. I had great satisfaction knowing I was getting a quality technical education while also contributing positively to my community. At WCTC, I can really tell the faculty here genuinely has the student's best interests at heart. I see that through faculty volunteering their own personal time for on-campus events and through my instructors constantly recommending students for internships and career opportunities. If I could leave you with one thing to remember about WCTC, it's that the people here care and will work to help their students achieve their career and academic goals. Thank you. Representing Western Technical College, Abdul Cole. My name is Abdul Balaji Cole. I'm an international student from Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Currently a role in the heavy diesel and equipment technician program. I'm the current student ambassador for Western Technical College. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. Going up in Sierra Leone, West Africa, I never thought I would be able to go to college. Just because of how I was raised and the kind of environments I grew up in, kids in my earlier, never made it past high school, usually they end up going to the workforce to support their families. My family never had much so I grew up eating whatever I found on my plate, wearing whatever I found in my wardrobe. In 2016, I started looking into possible colleges I could go to. At the time I was volunteering on a hospital ship named the African Mercy. That's when I met a friend from La Cosse. He also came to the ship to volunteer. We became best friends. One night we started talking about schooling in the U.S. And he mentored to Western Technical College. I started doing my research about Western to see if it's the best fit for me. After months of research, I kept seeing one thing over and over that says we want our students to succeed. And that stood out to me personally. After months of research and cost comparisons, I decided to attend Western Technical College. It was the most affordable college at the time. It took me three years to get all the papers that Western needed and the U.S. Embassy in Seattle needed for me to come over here for school. I will say after all the hard work to get here, it was worth it. Instructors are helpful at Western. Everyone wants to genuinely see you succeed. I used to tell my friends back home, I said the school that I go to, it's like your parents. They always want to see you succeed. They always want to see you move forward. And that's how Western is. Representing Wisconsin Indian Head Technical College, Ashley Row Wolf. My name is Ashley Row Wolf. I am the Wisconsin Technical College system ambassador from Wisconsin Indian Head Technical College, which is the technical college that is farthest north in the state, way up in the corner by Doluthin Superior. I chose to attend WITC when I had been working in the healthcare field for about two years and knew that I wanted to go back and get a higher level of degree that I wanted to become a nurse. During my time at WITC, I have had phenomenal opportunities for learning. I have been able to really work with professionals from the field who are invested in seeing the next generation in their professions grow and develop and become excellent at what they do. I have had opportunities to go to Madison and speak with state representatives and senators and the people who move and shake things down there. I've had the opportunity to travel around our district and meet people from all over our district and opportunities to interact with people from all walks of life. I feel that I've been really really really blessed with just the people that I've met, the opportunities I've had. I've been able to become an LPN already halfway through my program, which is awesome because I can work as I can continue to go to school and it's just a great great thing that I can do that. I really just want to say thank you to the state of Wisconsin for the technical college system, to all of my instructors, all of my professors, all of the people who have helped me along the way, and to Baird for sponsoring this program where I get to meet students, exceptional students from all over the state and interact with some of our leaders at the Wisconsin technical college system and really have these opportunities for growth and development. It's incredible and I wouldn't be able to do it without this program and without my school, so thank you. Before we close, the WTCS planning team would like to recognize all of the college leaders and staff who support these 16 students, including the college's ambassador coordinators, those who may have nominated these students for this honor, as well as the college presidents, vice presidents, and other leaders who support these students and this program. And finally, it's hard to imagine these students would be where they are without the love and support of family and friends. Wherever you are, please give a round of applause for the family members and friends of the ambassadors. Thank you all for being with us for this special night.


If you're like only point of reference to what Battle Rap is, is 8 Mile, then you're probably going to figure it's a bunch of people in like oversized hoodies and jeans. The whole thing that draws me into it is the intellectuality of it. It is crazy, the level of attention that people put into their writing now. Battle Rap is not rocket science, we're running out of space for challenges. They think just because I teach I don't push the rock to clients. Like I would just wash my hands in a profit like Pontius Pilate. Battle Rap now is so funny because people have to try harder because you know now that like a lot of people are going to see what you're going to do. My name is Rowan Fife, I'm 26 years old. I'm a rap battler and co-founder of Bone Flop Entertainment Ltd which is right now the biggest rap battle slash hip hop promotion in the UK. Yo yo yo, welcome. This is Jump Up TV's first ever basement street battle. We've got six of the top MCs in the country, we're going to be featuring tonight and boy we've got a live tonight still. First up to back we've got MC Ur. My rap name is Ur, I've been called Ur since I was about 17 years old. I got started in Battle Rap because I used to hang around every Friday and Saturday night with a rapper called Archaic. My name's Archaic, I've been on Jump Off many a time. This is my friend. He entered a tournament called the World Rap Championships in 2006 when I first kind of met him. By the time 2007 came around I was confident enough just about in my freestyle ability to enter with Archaic. To be honest I probably wasn't fully ready because I was like young, I only just turned 18. We did a tryout battle right next to Tower Bridge in central London. By the time the actual tournament came around I was just like well it's like I have to be ready now and we ended up doing quite well. You didn't know what was going to happen after 2007. The World Rap Championships, you spent too much money in 2007 and weren't really doing that much. So me and Kruger were just kind of like let's just film some battles and do it ourselves because no one's filming battles. We know a lot of people that battle that have never been on camera. Let's just film it. There wasn't really anything going on in Battle Rap around 2008 because the WRC was in 2007 and after then it was kind of like nothing for a long while. Me and Earl were just like you know I mean let's just set up our own battles. We can film it, I've got a camera.  We had all these people and we just thought that's enough. Let's just film a few battles and see what happened. Don't flop! Don't flop! Don't flop! Don't flop! It's Earl back here, don't flop! This is don't flop!  Make some noise! For the first I'd say at least a year it was just like we are filming these battles because we are filming them and it kind of just transformed into another concept from there on. We just had like a few popular battleers that came through and really took it up to the next level. As we grew as a company we started getting more and more people involved. The battles got better and the footage got better and everything just got better. I think some people when you say about battle rap they'll think you know it's a bunch of dudes in hoods looking intimidating trying to be like angry and aggressive in a room but like in reality like I feel like it's the great equaliser.  My name's Liam Bagnell. I'm the creative director of Dome Flop.  I mean that's kind of why like freestyle has kind of died out now as well. We still do freestyle battles and they pop off but generally someone can't say something as intellectual or as fought out as they can when they write. The transition from the freestyle to the written. I'd say that's definitely the main change.  I think it's good the way it is now I think it makes you try harder. Every battle is filmed where you know that when you come into battle. I feel like it's something that everyone has always been into and they don't know it. It's humorous. There's an edge of like humor to it that people can just latch on to and like fully understand and grasp. I just think it's going to keep growing.  And I think like now that we've come into America and everyone's seeing that we're doing we've just got even more fans coming on to it and hopping on and we're starting to build like a global brand of very talented MCs from different backgrounds. We'd always take Don't Flop to other places. It's the same way that kind of in the UK we hit up every city, everywhere we could go. Once we knew we had people out there that could help us with it it was like why not you know, I mean it's a chance to go to America, expand our league because we always used American talent anyway we were flying them over. But really it makes just as much sense to fly ourselves over and do events here. The whole thing in USA is different to the UK because I have to in the age with more people because obviously we don't have like the links out here that we have back home. It's not as easy. I do put a lot of faith in other people to help me promote it. I set up the DC event this time in the same way that I've set up the other USA event.  I knew they were doing an event in Atlanta with my man Sonny Bamboo. He was open to the idea you know we just kept speaking and speaking and so we both agreed that you know being in the capital of the United States would just be epic. We spoke a lot and he sent me like a few examples of names that I didn't actually know that he wanted to be involved. So once he sent me them I thought yeah okay cool actually this could work out quite well. It was a two-day event. To me it was really important to have an event for the local guys to really get that shine and get that opportunity. But then the major event that everyone was talking about everyone came out to Rock and Roll Hotel in DC it was just... This is Don't Flop USA. We are here in Washington DC. DMV please make some noise for the battle. I feel quite proud like especially at the event there was many moments I had these like big like epiphanies. Just looking around I was thinking this is so crazy that we're in DC and like this crowd of Americans has come out to our event and they are fans of like the battles that we set up from like five thousand miles away. It'll probably just keep growing to the point where we're coming out here with like a busload of people and going around, around, around.  I don't want to go back to an office.  So my motivation is to just keep building, keep creating stuff to try and make this community that we've built grow and for everyone to be able to get a shot of fame and for everyone to be able to get a shot to get known.  I feel like at the moment I can make anything that I want and it would be okay. Like that is liberating. It wasn't like let's start a company that's going to be the biggest ever it was just like we might as well film these battles because we have a camera and we can all battle and it's like cool. I didn't think it could get to this stage where I'd be like I mean come into America do events out here. It's a blessing. We're just accident entrepreneurs you know what I mean? Like we never intended none of us intended it to be this. Life's got super weird in the past couple years.