everyone will come back to another Exos Heroes episode so today I'm glad to be back I'm glad to be here it's been what two weeks since I've been gone but today I have a very kind of comprehensive special tier list for you guys because in this tier list it's actually an expanded tier list which I included all of the fate course the journals in their fated form and mythic of course it's going to be misty but before we start this tier list guys I'm going to put a link in the description so you can actually access and see this tier list through Google Sheets but let's start with letter E so this tier is actually needing a lot of work I won't I won't really elaborate on this this is going to be a very long tier list if I do but we have here FC Wilkes FC Eden FC Nika and FC Leafy so if you've noticed they are from the idle theme and which again they really with the exception of Eden I think because he's a blue fate core I don't think he's going to be reworked but for Wilkes Nika and Leafy I think they have to be because again they are not really really good and they need a lot of work okay and we also have your FC Tupaki again he's a blue fate core I don't expect him to be reworked so let's leave him be then you have your FC Lyongen which again was reworked but again very underwhelming and the last for tier E is going to be FC Dana which she just got out but again I will forgive her because she is a blue fate core but again her kit is not that good and she's not going to be used well in terms of even for PVE so let's move on to tier D okay for your tier D these bunch is going to actually need a little bit of work to be good we have your FC Shakan who has been reworked already which actually kind of good rework but really needs a lot more Janai I don't expect a rework because actually her FC is already good but for her fate form she's for the tier with the office here again also I don't expect the the faded version to re rework so let's wait for his fate core then you have here FC Bahar of course but again a lot there are a lot of there are a lot better heroes than her especially with her abilities I think she she does shock so there are better heroes that deal shock aside from her FC Glen is also here Glen I think deals shock as well but he is kind of he's kind of slow I know she's not slow he's actually in the middle in terms of speed but again his kit doesn't synergize well with others next would be FC Monika I think Monika has I think stun as well or shock but again she is she's kind of there but not there yet she needs a rework of course FC Oloom the black FC Oloom is going to need a rework after she was released I don't know why they keep on putting out duplicate FCs because again the last time that they mentioned that they won't you know put out duplicate FCs which is actually good FC Reed Marie I just put there are M because her name is pretty much very very long and FC Reed Marie did have a rework but it was kind of a nerf from her previous FC hopefully they would correct that and give her a better rework than she had before she was actually very good and she was she's actually she can still be used in PVE but again I didn't like the nerf that she had during her last rework so she is at tier D you have here FC Kylox viable with Brun team but again needs more love FC Bernabas has his two copies here which doesn't surprise me even though FC Bernabas is going to get this one the gray one is going to get a rework tomorrow but again the fate core is it has to have a certain again qualifier which has to be paired with Rachel for this heart and so I don't see that very viable and she will remain with D as well as the new one for FC Bernabas I don't know why they put out duplicate of fate course for them I hope they keep there you know they keep their word when they say that they won't put out duplicate fate course anymore and the last to round out tier D would be FC Nemerys guys Nemerys over the fence again with him needs a little love as well next would be tier C so for tier C these are the heroes that I think are viable FC Corgis here if you don't have any AoE dealers that are that are red or our deal the what they call this the or the deal heat so he is actually kind of good boundary of that FC always here she's a blue fate core but if you don't have any attack buffers if you don't have FC more she can actually replace or kind of become a pseudo Morse but not of course for the number but if you're one I just want to use her for PV PVE I think she would be viable as well you have here next is FC Degas again Degas is just in C because again he's a frost hero and that is I think a drawback to him could have been in probably in B but that is actually putting him down at C or tier C next would be FC Luke another tank again if you don't have tantalo you could have him as your substitute not of course for PVP but for other matches for other PVP matches next will be FC Balar FC just needs a little more love he was used before by dreadnought in PVP he can perform well but again he doesn't have that certain ability of to go over the top so next would be Carrie so Carrie obviously this is her fated version she will get her FC soon but again if you don't have any nullify heal in terms of Ramji Carrie if you built her signature force is actually good as well FC Deva one of the previous you know previous heroes that have excelled in PVP but now she can still be good in PVE okay previously good in PVP next would be Shrufracken so Shrufracken's fated form is here because again I don't like his S1 for the fated version but his S2 is still good that is why he's still here at tier C I think his S1 is actually self heal which is not really relevant in terms of PVP next would be Rachel Rachel is here again but his FC form you will see later because it's much higher in this tier list FC Sabrina she's a blue fate core she's a fire element which deals AoE damage heavily and she's again a viable substitute even if you have if you don't have the other again fire damage heroes similar to Corgi you can use FC Sabrina for your team as well next would be Luna Luna is here because again she just got her FC but her fated form good for revives I think she can be viable in the future especially for her FC but for her fated form she's actually here at tier C and to round out our tier C would be FC Bernadette so FC Bernadette again the drawback for her because she's a frost hero summer's blessing is really her you know her crutch so more or less this rounds out our tier C next we go to tier B so for tier B these are your solid heroes guys I'm just gonna correct this one I didn't have the opportunity to harken this okay so for your B these are very solid picks so you won't go wrong with them they can you can actually build them probably up to mid game mid game above or slightly above mid game because they can actually help you so much Schmidt fated Schmidt again no reason building him especially if you get his FC Garf as well if you build Garf not a problem as well very solid for wasted red so very solid FC as well Bathory very good general fated as well good for Greenad no no no reason not to build this three they will help you in the early game especially if you're a beginner FC Vaelish with his recent rework I think is worth at B because I think it gives the opponent defense a sorry a deduction or a reduction in defense next would be Emma Emma is actually I think pretty good in PvP tag if you give her a chance chance as your front row as one of your front row heroes so again she sacrifices herself very good support team if you have I used to use her actually in PvP tag for the number but when FC April got out she got relegated to probably that your third team on PvP tag next is Lager Lager with her recent buff I think is worth bringing especially if you don't have any healers for a Storis she can be a good build I'm actually still building her trying to test her out so we'll see if she can go from beyond that's you know that average line going up next would be FC Ramji the other version not the blue one the black faded the black fate core this guy is actually viable if you swap him with your blue fate core if you're going to use him because again he has core memory aside from the blue one but again it doesn't have your first garden skill so that is why he is at tier B next would be FC Othard again one of one of again the AoE damages which you know has similar damage to Bathory for S2 next would be FC Hecken FC Hecken is actually still viable in PvP tag because again I think he has pierce or piercing so don't sleep on him if you have copies of him try to bring him in PvP tag these guys actually all of the all of the heroes that I'm discussing here are both viable for PvP and PvP tag so next would be FC Anastasia FC Anastasia once a mainstay in PvP now she's just probably one of the you know you could fit her in your top three PvP tag teams and she is still viable with first dragon passives with her tremendous heal and with her S2 offensive skill she can actually be viable still FC Scarlett very very good she has AoE in both skills so S1 and S2 she can actually you know if she has flap flap this both of her skills are actually very annoying so again she's here B and to round out our B is FC Chatti so Chatti recently got a buff and I think she is now good for PvP tag aside from being good in the dragon or holy dragon grounds again she is very good as long as you don't have somebody on the other side to take off shields she is a very good support FC going next to our tier A so again your tier A is your old reliable they are they are above your above average heroes so you have your FC Oloom again the versatility in destroying garden stones as long as you have FC Bathory FC Jin recently buffed and pretty much very good I use him because of the silence actually not not so much for his damage FC Ramji still a very good you know mainstay in PvP because of dragon nullify heal and first dragon passives FC Naomi I've seen him being paired right now with Dorca in the top 50 teams for Asia I think a very good the very good hero as long as you build is a leash potential very good support as well FC Baraka is here again for mostly your he's usually used in what you call this in your Linonbet teams for PvP but mostly they use the Black Fate for Baraka but he's a good substitute guys by the way if you don't have Black Fate for Baraka because of coronary that's it FC Jin is here again he is actually viable I've seen him hurt a lot in terms of damage in terms of again increased damage with shields very good as long as you haven't built he will wreak havoc for you especially if you're bringing wasted red next would be FC Rachel blue FC Rachel again a substitute for your for your gold fate for FC Rachel if you don't have the gold one this form is actually still good at tier 8 next would be FC Lepin with with the incorporation of course of Misty and most of the players building since your force for Northwood Frosty Lepin actually a scene action in PvP and again she she's kind of annoying especially if you don't kill her early she can bring back the whole team and give damage immunity and what a headache she is actually FC Brooke is next FC Brooke again again I think has been very good especially for Northwood Frosty she's seen a comeback because again a lot of players have been using Northwood Frosty because of Misty and developing signature force and again her passive is very annoying the additional attacks very annoying and she is at tier 8 next would be FC Morris so you have FC Morris here of course a mainstay in PvP in terms of your Linnombi teams he gives buffs for attacks and again don't forget he's a banger so he is he's going to be supreme in terms of his passive so next would be both are actually just your substitutes but they are still very good FC Rera blue FC Rera a good substitute for your gold FC Rera if you don't have her she is going to be still good in your PvP and also FC Garf you don't have if you don't have blue a gold FC Garf the blue FC Garf would be a good substitute for her okay next is going to be your S rank or S tier rank these are your wingmen it's like these are your Scotty peeping to your Jordan so again these are wingmen I'm very good they can shine they can score they can assist they can do everything but they're not the alpha in their group but let's start with Dorcas again Dorca will be SS tier when she gets her FC I'm really sure about that she's actually performing well already at S tier with just her faded version but again after she actually gets her FC I'm sure she're going to go to the top next would be FC Maggie FC Maggie very good burst S2 again mainstay for wasted red in terms of PvP very good hero not really fragile right now she is a but with Misty of course she's going to lose that shield but again she is still a good mainstay if you take care of Misty and she is still there with the top heroes in wasted red next is FC Zeons or FC Zeon is going to be still a mainstay in your Nanomba teams for PvP he is actually still also good in your PvE matches next is FC Adams again FC Adams with his recent buff has become very viable in PvP also in PvE I noticed especially in the hard ones in your chapters paired with Jani he is going to deal a lot of damage FC shell again very valuable in terms of your removing of shields turn reset mana very very versatile and once I actually built signature force for a story she is actually very viable and she survives well okay with her in this tier is FC Iris of course with flap flap summer's blessing and the removal of shields you know go can't go wrong with FC Iris and she actually gives mana as well for S1 for everyone right next to her is that's not RC April that's FC April sorry for the typo so more or less FC April is here a terrific wingman for FC Rachel again the number would not be as effective if it wasn't for her okay next would be FC Annie Annie again a mainstay she's just sometimes substituted with FC Maggie but again if you manual wasted red she's better than FC Maggie you can do silence tremendous amount of damage as well next on our side is FC tantalo again FC tantalo you cannot you know you cannot really put him down he is actually still very good in terms of what they call this in terms of being an all-around for PvP for PvE there are still a lot of teams bringing him in in PvE especially at PvP especially in the top and again if you don't bring him in your PvE PvP team he's very good in your tag team as well FC Zafracken again as I mentioned has been elevated to King status again because of again Misty the use of north one frost he has elevated him in terms of a lot of teams together with together with Valentina for a while guys haven't seen Valentina here okay I think I I left her out but FC Valentina would be at tier A I actually missed her out I forgot to put her in the tier list but again just to correct myself FC Valentina if you have her guys she will be in A because she's so dependent on Shufracken she can't you know she can't be used on her own she will be in tier A Shufracken or FC Shufracken will be at tier S okay next next will be FC Luna so FC Luna with her FC she's going to kill it she just have to improve her signature force she's absolute beast in terms of revives guys and try to build her in a couple of months once we built her actually she's going to be kill it in terms of PvP she's going to be very annoying but now she is still at tier S next and last would be FC Baraka which is one of the mainstays for Enombe in terms of PvP so again he is here because he is actually very fast kills you know in just his first attack and is actually very viable his core memory by the way that is why he's here over the blue fate core Baraka and this rounds out our S and our last would be I won't take long guys for this video so I'll just squeeze in the next time I put in the tier list I'll squeeze in FC Valentina but she's going to be in tier A I forgot about that and for tier SS again these are the cream the crop similar to the last tier list that I had so you have FC Garf, Redly, Talia, Bathory, FC Herrera, FC Rachel, FC Jani, FC Schmid and a new entry to SS which is FC Misty again a lot of my bane would be I haven't gotten her summoned so much and been one of the unlucky ones not to get her but again with people building North One Frosty she is going to be also a pain dealing with and she is actually in PvP already the top teams are using her for those who have gotten multiple copies of her again she is actually very good very very good so damage ability you know she's a headache we don't deal with her and right now she's still squishy but again moving forward in the months to come I think she is going to be better than now okay guys I've taken so long of your time I'm glad to be back sitting in front of the camera and talking 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Hello, everyone. Welcome back. My name is Rubix1138, and I welcome you to Seracada, an introduction into OpenSoc FTS capture the flag tools. I'd like to welcome you, welcome Josh to the stage here to talk about Seracada. A reminder, if you are not already in the Discord chat, please go to blueteamvillage.org. Click on the links for DevCon28 and join our channel. So let's please give a warm welcome to Josh. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much for the introduction, and thank you to the Blue Team Village and all of DevCon for all of the hard work that I know is going into this and the opportunity here to talk to you all today a little bit about Seracada. So this will be really a brief introduction intended to give you some idea as to what Seracada is capable of. Hopefully there's a few things that you learn about that you didn't know it could do. I'm going to use a VM here to demonstrate that. So I have a lot of the text and all the UIs here fairly large. It should be legible, so you can see that. A little bit about Seracada then before we get too far into the technology is that Seracada is an open source project. Everything that you see here that I'll be talking about today is also open source. So there'll be a few tools I'll touch on beyond Seracada, but most of these are developed and supported by the OSF, the Open Information Security Foundation. So this is the 501c3 non-profit that manages and maintains and supports Seracada and all the activity around that. So we have a very globally diverse team of executive development trainers and others that support and really make this project happen. There's also a very active community and we have a number of different platforms that we have available to get engaged in the community and so I would highly encourage you if this is a new technology to you to reach out to those communities and get involved. This is me. You can find me located just about anywhere on the internet. I am available at this email address as well as Twitter, but if you search for my name you'll probably be able to find me and please feel free to direct any questions or anything I can help you with after this presentation in the future to any way you can get ahold of me. So to get started then many know Seracada or if you know Seracada likely you recognize it as an IDS, an intrusion detection system and likely in the Open CTF scenario that you'll be engaging in what Seracada will be doing then is generating IDS alerts, intrusion detection alerts. So that is of course one of Seracada's primary capabilities and primary roles, but it can do quite a bit more than that. It can do things like pull packet capture, it can do protocol specific logging, it can do file identification and extraction, it can do offline PCAP processing. So you can take a PCAP maybe from a malware sandbox and run that PCAP through Seracada to get IDS alerts and other protocol logs. I'm only going to talk for 15, 20 minutes or so so I want to touch on and give you a real brief demonstration about that capability. Realize though that we could probably spend days going through any one of those aspects. So again there's a lot of resources that I can help point you to if that's something that would be of interest to you. Now as an IDS Seracada again primarily is generating those IDS alerts and with those IDS alerts then you they come in the form of rules and rules then are simply put they're a you know a syntax, a pattern or a series of patterns that are then applied to your network traffic and if those patterns match an alert is generated. Now alerts can be for a large wide variety of categories. You can have alerts around malicious behavior but then you can also have alerts around policy violations or anomalies in your network. Let's say you have non encrypted HTTP traffic going over a standard HTTPS, a TLS port like 443 not necessarily malicious but certainly could be something that you'd want to know about in your environment. So the rules can be very very broad and they can provide different looks into the traffic in your environment beyond just the you know known malicious behaviors. Rules if you are familiar with you know things like YARA signatures right you write a pattern and you use them that YARA rule to match on different things that's a lot how the rules work. From you know practical perspective most users are going to get their rules from a rule source and they're going to feed them into the engine and then they're going to monitor when those alerts are generated. You can of course create or construct your own rules and that but that's something that you know is certainly a capability of the engine you can define custom rule sets but a lot of users are just going to consume those. It is important of course as alerts are generated as you'll see here in just a moment to also understand the rule syntax a bit at least to the point where you can understand what that rule is telling you and so you have that ability to look at the rule itself as well. But again rules are really a topic in and of themselves so we want to stay a little bit more focused on the on the pragmatic side at this point. Now I mentioned that rules the kind of the you know the way that we can look at rules is that rules come from sources. Those sources then can be combined to create rule sets and those rule sets are what we feed into the engine into suricata. A very popular rule set an open source rule set is the ET open and suricata by default will use that rule set. There are other open source rules that you can go and consume that you can figure your engine to use and then it really becomes up to you to determine the rules that you need or want depending on the environment that you're using suricata in. For example I use it for a lot of malware analysis so I grab pretty much any rule set I can find because I'm okay with any individual analysis generating a lot of noise. In a production environment I'd be a lot more cautious or careful. The VM that we're in I maybe jumped ahead of myself just a tad. The VM that we're in is called CELTS. This is believe it or not my system crashed just before this presentation so I had to restart. This is also an open source distribution. It's Debian based. It's designed to really highlight all of the capabilities of suricata. You can if you're not familiar with CELTS or if you're not familiar with suricata you can go to Stamos Networks you can download CELTS suricata elk stack and you essentially have the VM that you see here in this demonstration. The only minor differences will be a script that I run and then I have some P caps in here you're not going to have any P caps when you download this otherwise everything else should be the same. So that's that's what CELTS provides you. It's sort of like a security onion. It doesn't have some of the host-based stuff and there's a number of differences in tools.  This comes in CELTS. Now if you were to install suricata at least a more recent version of it by default suricata comes with suricata update. So it's a command line utility that has been developed to manage the rule sets and the rule sources for your suricata instance. I'm not going to run that here because I already have CELTS set up and installed or I'm sorry Sirius and I don't want to confuse the rule manager. I'm just going to use one or the other but if you run the help dash dash help you'll see that it has all of the basic commands that we're going to cover here. We look at updating our sources. We look at listing sources. We look at enabling sources and then applying those sources to build the rule set and deploy it to the engine. Again so that's what we'll be seeing with Sirius. Now I mentioned we have sources and so we can if we want to add any different type of public or custom source that is available you can do that just by simply selecting these actions and adding a source is usually as straightforward as adding the URL where that source is coming from. Now there are some commercial rule sets rule sources and those then of course you have to pay for typically you get an API key or some way to authenticate before you can use those. Some other examples of rule sets that are out there if you go to abuse.ch which is an awesome project and a lot of great resources you can look at the blacklist project and from there we can look at the actual list and you'll see that there are for example in this particular project a number of rule sets that are available based off of things like blocking of C2IPs or J3 fingerprints. Something to keep in mind then as you're looking at the different rule sets that are out there you do need to oftentimes if you find there is a Siricata specific one I would typically I would opt over that. A lot of rule sets are going to be compatible not only with different versions of Siricata and there's a fairly significant version change between four and five or five is the latest but then a lot of them are compatible between Siricata and Snort. Some of the more recent rule sets ET Open or the emerging threats list or rule sets they are starting to also create Siricata 4 and Siricata 5 rule sets and the changes in five are all based off of rule syntax and so you're getting likely more performance out of the 50 rule set. You also have to be careful because typically the 50 rule set won't work with the 40 version or the 4.x version of Siricata. So just some things to keep in mind and again in general you'll find a lot of compatibility but I would always opt for if I'm running Siricata to take a set specifically designed for it. If we go back to Sirius then you can see that we have our sources listed here. Again it's just the click away or if you're using Siricata update to add those sources and then once we have our sources we can create and manage our rule set. The rule set then is just a combination of rule sources. The default here in this VM is to take the two sources that we have add them to this rule set and we can see that we have those two sources and we have just under 21,000 rules. Once we have that configured we have to deploy the rule set. We have to make sure that we've downloaded the most recent version and then deploy those to the engine and in this interface you need to go to the Siricata tab and then there's this rule set action and what will happen here is that it will update it will build and it will push and what you see with a lot of rule set managers is that they will combine all the rules that you've told it to use and they will write it into a single file and then deploy that into the location in the file system that Siricata looks for rule files. Siricata update also does something very similar and in order to create the actual rule file you just run Siricata update so that will run based off of the current configuration update the rule sets and then write the file for Siricata to use. Now I mentioned the rule location and so in order to understand where the rules are written to maybe we want to confirm that they are in fact getting updated so we want to look at the rule files or look at the timestamp on that rule file. The default location for the Siricata configuration is in Etsy Siricata and then in particular Siricata.yaml so there is a yaml file that you can open and look at and yes I did just nano in public. Everything Siricata related is in here if you you probably don't need to get too deep into the configuration file that's something that will come with time but you know definitely there are some things that you might want to check. Probably one of the most important outside from we can look at the rule location here in just a moment is this home net external net. If you dig into the rules the syntax of the rules they use home net and external net and what they are using those variables for is to define the direction the flow of traffic and when the engine should apply the rule should it be on the response should it be on the request and so that's very important it also of course defines the IP space and so the default is to use standard RFC 1918 addresses internal IP addresses and again the default then for your external network is to just negate your home network but you want to make sure that these are correct so if the environment that you're in or defending is using addresses that fall outside of this that's just something that you want to definitely keep in mind. Now one more quick thing about the configuration is that the engine supports sub-configuration and with CELX we do have a sub-configuration which means that in our primary configuration file if we include sub-configurations these sub-configurations if they overwrite any configuration options in the primary then you know including the sub-yaml the sub-config will do that it'll overwrite in the primary so this can become helpful if you have you know a base configuration that you want to use and then you deploy sensors into different areas of your network that have slightly different requirements based off of the type of traffic that they're seeing in CELX we do have in the sub-yaml the change to the default rule file so here you can see that's commented out if we go a little bit further the property default rule path and those rules will be located in Etsy Sericata rules and it's just going to be a single rules file serious.rules right so that's just a real quick about the configuration and again unless you have reason you probably don't need to get into it right off the bat but definitely it's worth checking the whole net external net and tweaking that if you need to. Going back to the interfaces here right so we've now looked at different sources you've got an understanding of where you can maybe grab some different rule sources we know the process for updating and pushing those. Sericata can do a live rule set reload so you don't necessarily have to restart the engine. The next thing that we'll do is we'll talk about just some of the protocol parsing and then file identification capabilities so as I mentioned here just a few minutes ago one of the differences with this VM versus the one you would download from the github is that we do have a couple of scripts that help us with the analysis and then the the pcaps so that script is seri.sh although it's it's a relatively straightforward script and that it's running Sericata essentially the main goal of it is to run Sericata in offline mode. I forgot what pcap I want to use so one of the other again one of the capabilities I mentioned is that Sericata can run in offline mode which means that you can feed it a pcap and it'll process that pcap as if it were you know analyzing the traffic live on the network and then you get the same results from Sericata generating its output. Now one thing I haven't mentioned yet is where Sericata generates all of its output. The default is to to drop all of the data into a JSON file it's the eve.json and so the alerts the protocol logs file stats anything that the engine generates it will it will be in that eve.json the JSON file then is very flexible it's a very flexible file format because you can do things like submit it just the JSON file itself to elastic and other other tools that allow you then to take that data and build you know visualizations and dashboards and then parse it in different ways. Now the pcap capability then is again this is offline mode and when we run a pcap it's going to use the original timestamp from the pcap so we just need to keep that in mind because as we look at some of these interfaces we need to oftentimes adjust the time and date so if I look at a dashboard and it's looking at the last 24 hours even though I just ran the pcap if the pcap was from last week I need to go back and adjust the timestamps the filters in that UI to go back to last week. We can run this script now and again main purpose is to get the pcap running through surcata in offline mode so surcata is going to load the engine is going to load as it would normally and it's going to load the rule set that is configured to to utilize and then it's going to process the pcap now as that is loading what we'll find is a another open source project that is maintained and developed by one of the the ysf core the surcata core developers is called evebox and evebox provides you with a graphical ability then to look at basically alerts and some of the other data the protocol data and the flow data that surcata is generating so we'll look at the end of the script the script does one more thing before it finishes and that it queries the eve.json file looks for any alerts that were generated and prints them here to our terminal now that's great it's helpful to see those alerts right away but again it's it's kind of hard to do all this work in a terminal and it probably doesn't scale that well so that's why we would switch to something like evebox now with evebox and it's going to be a little bit tight here in the UI just because I have the zoom up high but what we're seeing now are the alerts that were generated so not only do we see you know specific alerts for events that happened but we see other alerts and in this case we see other alerts around the same time that you know maybe this first alert was generated so that helps us to possibly build a little bit better context around each individual alert we can see here that we have several in fact these these four right here are all based around the execute an executable download if we scroll up a little bit further then we'll see that after that executable is this appears to be downloaded we have alerts around fioto tracker and win32 imitett command and control activity if you as you start to understand what the alerts are telling you you can start to read into them a bit more we can see that this particular alert here it's an info alert there's color coding to help you visually gauge the severity of the alert so this is an info one it's a different category that the alerts are categorized in an executable was retrieved with minimal HTTP headers right so this is as alert and in one event the download of an executable can actually generate several alerts so this is telling you that something downloaded an executable file and there were very minimal HTTP headers and why this becomes significant is because oftentimes our scripts like power shell for example which is regularly used from an office document to download executables by default they don't use very many HTTP headers typically it's the the git request header the first header that's needed with the HTTP and the version and then maybe the host and so that is telling you that maybe where this originated from was it was something like a malicious office document which which actually is the case here so those can definitely help to add additional context and again we can get many alerts around a singular event we can select any of the alert and get a little bit deeper into the analysis so if we select the ET policy PE or DLL download this guy allows us then to get information about the traffic that matched from this alert so we see of course the timestamp we see the sensor that it came from so if you're working in a multi-sensor environment we have the protocol TCP but this was HTTP we have the source and the destination ports the flow ID we'll take a look at the flow ID here in just a moment the signature like the category as well as the signature ID and what's helpful about having the signature ID available is that not only could we use this in this particular interface we can we can filter off of that so we could look back in time over however much data our environment is collecting on to maybe filter off of a specific signature but then we can also take that signature ID and we can use we'll actually use Serious to do this we can pull up that rule itself and select the rule and then look at the rule syntax so we can now begin to understand exactly what it is in this rule that was matching on the traffic so if we have to get dig a little bit deeper to to provide a little bit better context and understanding okay so we'll go back if you continue to scroll down in the interface you'll have different values from the HTTP request so that's some of the protocol parsing and logging that capability that it has you might have the response body we can very clearly see if you're familiar with PE files anyway and we can certainly see the PE file that was returned and then you know scrolling down further you'll eventually get to the raw JSON so PE files are a bit large but here you have them just the raw JSON data that correlates to this alert so if there's for some reason maybe some data that you know is in in Sir Cotter it's being generated it's in the eve.json it's not there in the UI you can come down here and check it's also a good place to look just to get a better understanding of all of the data that Sir Cotter is generating and maybe there are some fields that it's it's not producing for you that you might need and then there are actually ways to customize the engine to to help correct that now I mentioned the flow ID so we can select the flow ID and what that will do is essentially give us the ability to take a step back and to look at all of the other you know events that are around this particular of this flow so not only now do we see the alerts but we also see the different different type of events we have the flow information we have the HTTP information we even have file information so we can look at the HTTP request for example and now we can get the host the URI maybe the user agent any of the data that is that is around the HTTP request itself very similarly with the file info so Sir Cotter has the ability then to not only identify files in the traffic certain file types it does have its limitations and everything is is available under the read the docs but then also it has the ability to extract those files if you want it to it doesn't do that by default though so here we have an executable we know that it is is pretty you know we know it's bad because we saw alerts related to ema tech traffic after it was requested and returned and so now we can look at information about the file the magic will determine the type of file so your your your lib magic I'm telling you the file type we already knew it was a PE file but here it confirms that of course if we had PE files that we don't have alerts associated with then this is another sort of piece of data point that then we know is data that's being generated that we could we could search on we have the hash which is also potentially very helpful because now we could take the hash of the file and maybe we go and search for that on you know our favorite threat research platform such as virus total so I'll paste the hash in now you'll notice here this is a pcap from a week or so ago and so likely if it's ema tech it would have been probably submitted to virus total by now we don't get any matches and the reason that that is is the state is truncated right and so what happens is by default sir kata only reads so far into the HTTP response and because PE files tend to be large and larger than that response it stops reading at its threshold and then hashes that content so while it's certainly read enough of the file to give us the the the signature the magic the PE file identification it wasn't able to read all of it this is done for performance reasons and it's a very small change in the configuration in order to tell it to read further into the HTTP response but again those are determinations that you have to make based off of considerations for your own environment so but that is again something that you'll want to to recognize and understand because if you didn't and you thought this was in fact the hash of the file you know results like this could maybe be a little bit misleading let's see here okay in addition then to looking at at alerts again you have the ability to comment you have the ability to escalate or archive you have under your events tab in the UI here the ability to view any of the protocol logs that have been generated so if you have you want to see all of the HTTP you could select that if you want to look at just DNS or TLS or SMB it's all available here and it allows you to see it again in the interface this particular pcap did not have any SMB so we're certainly not going to see it there and then there's also some you know some basic alerting or reporting some dashboards that that help with with that and you can see that you know again you'll have a summary of the alerts the top signatures the top categories your top source IPs and desk IPs and so it can provide you you know again an ability to take kind of a step back further and maybe monitor your environment from a bigger picture broader perspective of course there are because the output that sir kata is generating is json you can put it into a pipeline you can modify enrich the data you can submit it directly to elastic and from there you have the ability then to create any number of dashboards or visualizations that you need with cels cels has a number of dashboards and visualizations already built so if you download cels you can use these dashboards and visualizations for inspiration and ideas to get an understanding or a sense of the type of of visualizations that are quite helpful and cabana is another open source tool that's you know something that you can utilize but you're getting into all of the details of elastic and cabana are a bit beyond the scope of this particular workshop the other tool that I always like to point out is molak molak is another open source tool developed by aol supported by aol it's it's a great tool it's like wire shark on top of elastic and since sir kata can create full packet capture it can generate your and capture your network traffic and then you could have molak pick up the pcap and ingest it so that now you can use this interface to search for your traffic aspects of your traffic over over time however you have your molak configured to of course if you're familiar with with molak it also has its own capture capabilities but again I like to bring it up because if you already have sir kata deployed these are capabilities that you might have a system that you're already you've already set up and configured to utilize okay so I think that was my about 25 minute crash course on on sir kata and discussing some of the main primary features what is capable of the kind of data that you can get and how you can utilize that as well as a vm that you can go and grab and start experimenting with it pretty quickly at this point in time though that's all I wanted to to discuss so if anyone has any questions I believe the uh text workshops track one is available for questions of course I have my contact information um and I'll pull that up again you know please feel free to direct any questions to me any way you can get a hold of me or prefer to get a hold of me thank you josh uh yeah there's a number a lot of good discussion in the uh text chat one question that popped up that'd be good to answer uh is the sir kata based on the engine uh from snort or is it developed completely different it's completely different yeah uh there there is some there is a lineage that goes back to to the snort days but it is not a fork it is a rebuild so there is a significant number of differences in the engine's capabilities and then things like that rule syntax so that they are different the best thing I could probably tell you to do is under the sir kata read the docs I'm not sure I'll be able to find it just by searching I think there is a comparison page there's certainly compatibility information but I'm pretty sure somewhere in our read the docs there is a snort versus sir kata so if you if you're looking for you know sort of the high level big differences this is a good place to go for well uh josh thank you very much and thank you all for sticking through the sir kata workshop if in case anybody does have any follow-up questions uh josh will be around in the discord channel like you said it is the text dash workshops dash track one under the flamingo hotel group just scroll all the way down to the bottom to a flamingo hotel check us out on that channel and he'll be answering questions uh blue team village wants to say thank you to everyone that joined and this concludes the the sir kata workshop thank you


This is Debbie Dashinger Dare to Dream podcast and first I just want to say I got really exciting news yesterday And it definitely involves you my listeners and my viewers So thank you so much for believing in the show I've been on air for over 12 years massively syndicated and I got news last night that this show I knew previously that I was nominated for two People's Choice podcast awards What I found out last night is that Dare to Dream is a finalist. This is a big deal I don't need to name names think names of the biggest podcast that you know of and That's who I'm up against So I am in the entertainment category because if you know anything about Various awards. 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What's the symbol of love? Heart great. So I thought I'll put a heart shape on my shoulder You know the saying is, you know, you wear your heart on your shoulder I thought well You know, what would be better than that? So I thought why not put it here To symbolize love and I thought well, it's gonna look funny. I thought well, I'm in if you don't try you don't get So I printed some shirts and they looked amazing That's for the last four or five years. That's all I've been wearing I must tell people I don't have just one shirt. I have So I do change them. This is version four And I'm sure whomever it is you're paying for the long sleeve version the short sleeve version I hope you have stock in the company I'm sure they're doing well I make make them up, but I have a word exclusive for you. Yeah, please. Yes. Love it So my wife and I were here in Phuket. It's five a.m in the morning here And we passed a tattoo shop. She said, oh, I'd love to have a tattoo My wife has never ever said anything like that And she said, well, I said if you're gonna have one, I'll have one But I had a tattoo done. No one has ever seen this. So this is the first time Okay, I'll show it to you. Yeah Can you see it? Oh I love it It's perfect.  Did it hurt? It did, but um, you know what? As I was I was doing the tattoo the guy said no no no pain. No gain. I thought fair enough Touche Yeah, well good for you That's cool. Thank you for sharing that exclusive with us Very interesting. You would have done that because at 16 years old This is pre tattoos by the way the only people who had tattoos Back then were sailors or truck drivers and at 16 years old I desperately wanted to get a red heart exactly what you got. Oh really? Yes, precisely And my friends took me out and did a whole religious number on me, you know They bastardized the jewish religion and said if you do that it says If you mark your arm you have to cut off your arm, of course That's nothing with the bible really meant but they really like Made me straighten up and fly right so it took me decades later for me to do something and Who knows I still may do that. I may get a matching one But I went ahead and did this at some point. Oh, yeah, there are actually 3d butterflies Because I wanted to get something to represent my highest value which was freedom That's that beautiful and that you know, that's that's what really people are seeking They but what they look what they are Searching for it's financial freedom But freedom is way beyond financial freedom because with freedom you have financial freedom But with financial freedom, you don't have freedom necessarily Yes I agree 100% very interesting I'm interviewing ken Honda coming up Jap japan's and millionaire and this is something he makes very clear One thing doesn't necessarily equate to the other and it's really important to understand. What are your values first? And what does freedom mean to you not everybody has a value for freedom? But I think for someone like me who loves to travel and has a bit of a free spirit Doesn't like to be confined or suffocated needs a lot of space and You know people who don't give me a hard time. Frankly just say yeah, it's great. Go do that go do that It it works really well for my life And that's a huge value to have the money To assist to be able to do that is also very helpful It is There's a there's a fine line and there is a formula I've developed for fulfillment stroke freedom Which I'd love to share with the audience and they can immediately apply that in their lives Brilliant. Yes, I'm all ears and all pen Okay, so the freedom stroke fulfillment equals g cubed g times g times g And the first g is you have to give Give your time Your energy your love Your commitment your joy Your gift Your money Basically give you away without and wanting anything when you return So you'll you'll see a lot of people who are So-called givers, but they're not really givers because they want something in return and then they get What's the word? burnt out Yeah, we're thankful burnt out angry frustrated when they say well, I keep on giving I keep on giving but I don't get you know, I I don't get anything back. Well, that's your problem So if you want to give give freely without wanting anything back And in that moment you surrender to that you get something back Beautiful. So give freely with surrender Give of your time give of your energy of your love of your commitment of your joy of your gift of your money Give you away Because when when when if you don't give yourself away the ego comes in and that's where all the pain starts The second G You have to be grateful for what you have And don't focus on what you don't have so people are often think of this Someone else has got a better house a better car a better financial system or sit A situation blah blah blah But they forget what they have and if you always compare It'll always be painful even if you're a billionaire. I've coached billionaires and some of them are A little bit resentful. They think of the other person that has more money. He's he's a lot harder, but that's not always the case Uh, the the the joy doesn't come from how much you have It's through this formula Giving and gratitude being grateful for what you have So here's a really simple exercise that I can you can share with all your readers listeners is if you just look at your hands Right now if you look at them, when was the last time you thanked them? That makes me sad like I don't know I think my body yesterday a lot. I do appreciate how amazing and healthy and strong it is but to You know break it down like this. Yeah, I don't remember You wouldn't be able to show off your beautiful rings You wouldn't be able to operate the machinery to get this podcast going You wouldn't be able to caress the people that you love So, you know, these are the things that are the valuable things in life Wow, that's beautiful powerful. So to be grateful as the second step Grateful for what you have without putting attention on what it is we perceive We don't have but to see what actually is and have gratitude for that Yeah, and the third G is you have to grow Emotionally physically But not big or necessarily Yeah, I have to learn that one spiritually and mentally Hmm, I think that one would be challenging for a lot of people The biggest one is emotional The emotional one You know, because it's Uh, it's something that they haven't been taught how to handle themselves as human beings. We were never given a manual And that that's their problem They they have to learn from their parents and if their parents are Disfunctional and their parents come from dysfunctional families there's a lot of pain and Tools that they haven't been able to Uh gain from their parents So that they often bring down a lot of pain and frustration and resentment Uh, which isn't conducive to a beautiful life So the next is to grow emotionally Um, physically maybe health wise or exercise wise spiritually and mentally So that means to be quite open because life comes to us all the time whether we like it or not Change is always present and in order to be masterful At that and in order to have the life of our dreams. This one is so essential Right. We must have the fluidity within us Just to also go back to number two be grateful for all we have and be and do that's really working and clicking And those pieces that are coming up begging to be healed May may not be so pretty sometimes but to be okay to take that on as part of this journey Yeah, and you know the biggest issue most people have is forgiveness Yeah People think that forgiving someone is letting the other person win, but it's nothing to do with them It's about giving you the freedom and I call forgiveness the express pathway to freedom Say that again the expressed Uh forgiveness is the express pathway to freedom Oh The express like being on the express driving quickly Pathway to freedom holy moly explain more please So the quality of your life is dependent on the depth and authenticity of the forgiveness You extend to yourself and to others So when you forgive you get a sudden download of joy and a release of a big burden a release of pain in the shoulders in the body And it's a freeing moment. So that's the fastest way To get to a beautiful place if you have someone that has hurt you or you won't let go or you won't forgive And we all have it in some form or another Um just doing that forgiveness will release so much joy in such a quick fashion That's interesting. Yeah lack of forgiveness creates a lot of blockages Have you done this yourself in your life?  It was uh november 2008 Oh what happened there It was um, it was me november 2008 Uh, I lost everything on the stock market in real estate And we I I didn't feel I had a way out. So I I contemplated suicide And fortunately I was invited to an event run by tony robbins and he was able to do an intervention on me His wife did a couple of interventions and his wife's Uh, brother did a couple of interventions on me and my wife, uh, obviously that's been and helped me And I I was beating myself up not just emotionally but physically. I would beat myself up with my fists. I would uh Do all sorts of things because you know being a high chief. I wanted to make sure that I did Oh, uh, I the big thing I had to do was to forgive myself and it wasn't easy because uh, I had 47 years of uh issues that so to speak Uh, but at the end I had to disappear and realize this is my life. It's not about me It's about the difference I made And that helped me a lot and I did one thing that helped me which is to serve I started helping people and in the moment you give authentically all the pain and stuff disappears So that's one thing that how did you help people? Um, were you doing? Volunteer service or how did you show up? Yeah, I did some volunteering. I did some free coaching. I helped people, uh, you know, the smallest things open doors Picking up the paper off the floor Helping all sorts of societies the rotary club as a member of the rotary club So we'd have events that we would be holding And it was amazing Sure Wow So they do an intervention You're really down on your luck something turns around and you make a choice. Okay. I'm gonna keep going Your way through and out is a being of service And if there are people who are listening to you right now and feel like wow life is really getting me down And I'm having a lot of challenges Where can they start so they can start getting some relief some footing or an anchor if you will Well, uh, I would start with Something that I did was to give you know, even giving someone a compliment thanking a friend a teacher a family member a friend For something that they did for them or even say thank you for being in my life In that moment you thank them you disappear and your focus is on someone else and when you disappear your pain disappears Uh, the second thing I would do is ask them to write down 50 things 50 things that they're grateful for and at the beginning it'll be hard Uh, and that's that's one of the reasons that they're facing that they don't have an exercise that muscle so, uh, but I'd also halfway To uh, notice how they feel when they give authentically Notice how they feel as they write down those lucky things And where do they go from there? So they start serving start giving finding ways that they can do this without any attachment They take the time to write out at least 50 things that they can really feel gratitude and thankfulness for And then what what do they do? Well, just be aware of how they feel and As they feel better The energy levels go up and they get more power And something beautiful will happen eventually They'll get to see what they love to do And then they'll start doing more of what they love to do. What happens? You're sad or depressed.  Oh, that was the other thing I started to do I started playing tennis again and uh, that helped me a lot because I was surrounded by friends And if you if you're playing tennis, you have to be mindful So you have to do what you love It's very interesting. I before I got on radio over 12 years ago I was a professional actress singer and voice over artists. I did cartoons And when I got into radio and started writing books and teaching classes about visibility and how to write and how to be interviewed and Suddenly I found that I was at a crossroads. I had to make a choice. I was singing with a jazz band I was singing with a big band I had already let go of my acting career at a mindful choice But now the singing came up And I thought well, I there's just not enough of me. So I had to say to my band. I love you. It's been amazing, but This is the path i'm taking right now and I never thought about it And in fact, what's very interesting is most people who have come to know me within these past 12 years of podcasting and writing They don't even know that that exists As it's such a former life for me. They don't even know me as that they don't know me as an actress they don't know me as a singer and lately when I go to a performance And I see somebody saying there's a little part of me that just sort of wants to go like Get out of the way Give me the mic who longs for that feeling again? and I was asked there's something in Los Angeles called the greater good party It's an amazing group of people get together with very transformational speakers And it is to create great good at a time when the planet and the people really need it. So who they attract is amazing and I would say 12 hours before the function. I received a text saying so sorry. This is so late I never knew you were a singer, but somebody called you out. We need someone to sing us in will you You can imagine like my Cheers That's a big muscle, right? And I'm like this is your yes. This is your moment to say yes Because as you're saying this is something I love it was always part of my wheelhouse great joy brings great joy So I said, yeah, I'm doing it and I figured I'll figure out the song I don't have a lot of time to put into this which is actually quite good. So I sang And now I I have this feeling um, I wanted there's a studio that I know about and I want to go down there And just you know buy it for an hour or two and sing sing into microphones And I miss it and I never knew I'd say that but it's up right now. It's up for me to do and be again Okay, so When are you going to do that by Yeah, so I'm leaving town this week to speak on stage and when I come back Uh, I think the following friday I can do it So not this friday, but a week from Okay, so uh By the 20th Okay, so You agree by the 20th of september that you will have booked One hour studio time. I'm gonna do it today. Yeah Now I'd like to hear a tune right now Yeah I'm sorry only only a meal. Okay You've got to give a little Take a little And let your poor heart break a little That's the story uh That's the glory of love Wow No, it it changes so many lives with these tunes Well, thank you for asking me. That was a pleasure. I am so curious you started out in yellow In 2008, this is a big story, right? You literally virtually hit the wall of self And decide it's not worth it Fortunately you go to this experience with tony robbins He gets involved his wife gets involved his brother-in-law gets involved your wife gets involved and ta-da you choose these new pieces of service of playing tennis of finding what you love and starting to Come back to yourself or reinvent yourself out in the world and then fast forward to who you beat today Huge change who you are who you work with And what you deliver so I I just have some questions about where you're functioning right now And the first one I'm curious if you have healing abilities Because I know the level which you engage with people Is that something you don't talk about and you have or what is it that allows you to suss people out and help them? You know In 2000 tony robbins said to me anil. Why don't you coach for a living? And I said I looked him. I said what are you talking about? I've got a business I used to be an eye doctor But he saw a greatness in me that I didn't see And when I was an eye doctor people would ask me for advice Just general advice and I would tell them they would come back and say anil that was amazing I said of course it was but the thing is I realized much later on in life that I was a genius Because what I find so easy that other people find very difficult One of my gifts is to allow people to forgive in one or two sessions I've treat I've I've helped people who've Uh been to therapy for 15 20 years in one or two seconds. I release something that's holding them back Because my the way I I help you to give them that release to give them the ability to fish um a lot of um People don't want to be fixed or they they don't want to fix their clients because it's continuous revenue stream But my my mission is to reach 1 billion that's 1 000 million people by december 25 2020 And the only way to do that is to serve keep on serving keep on serving And people see that authenticity and it just multiplies So if you want to reach that many people you're at meddling 10 000 raving fans. What does that feel like man? I mean, I've spoken to maybe 1500 is the biggest audience 10 000. I mean, we're starting to talk stadium like roman stadium, right? That's pretty cool. What was that like for you?   I was very very nervous Then I said to myself for nil. This isn't about you You know your stuff. This is about you Serving about you helping people and as soon as I disappeared The ego disappeared. I just serve And I can send you clips that it's the funniest And it and it was in Spanish. So there was a simultaneous translation So they said I would I would be on for 90 minutes And I thought great that means 45 me speaking. They translating me speaking. They translation Then 10 minutes before they said no, it's a simultaneous translation. So again You have to be prepared if you know your stuff It's going to be okay. It's going to be fine And while you're in a bull ring and you've got people all around I mean, I know from being an actress the challenge is there So were you basically speaking and then moving around and having to address everybody from all angles? That's the only way You can't ignore the people behind you But it it was a very engaging type of conversation And I remember You know, they were saying something the entire crowd was saying something I didn't know what they were saying and I realized what they were saying They were saying a nil a nil a nil a nil a nil a nil And that was a magical moment for me. I thought wow, this is amazing I'm super psyched to hear that And you are somebody who has found a way to surround yourself with really influential people I can imagine knowing you because You are so funny. You're so fun to be with and I think that's a very attractive quality and I Would imagine that influential people feel the same way So knowing that about you how fun and funny you are What are some ways that we might Find that we can learn to surround ourselves with influential people as well well There is a way so What I would do first is to remove the toxic people from your life No, uh, there are people who drag you down who take up your energy You have to remove them and the way I I managed to to Really meet influential people was to serve So for example, I met Mike Tyson I I served I helped his wife I helped him but just by serving but not wanting anything in return Um, I met Richard Branson again. The only thing we talk about is health and relationships I never talked business and I never want anything from him Recently we were on a a yacht my son and I In Croatia and halfway through that Yacht trip we got invited to a billionaires yacht and we spent nine days with him And anything we were doing we're just being ourselves and serving and being playful You know, we we had no agenda and that's the thing have no agenda So be yourself and don't worry what other people think of you if they like you they like you if they don't they don't it doesn't matter What you're saying is so prevalent and I don't know if people really understand the importance So I just want to reiterate that I am not Richard Branson However, I've been operating in podcasts over 12 years So at some level there's some recognition when I go to a workshop or an experience And uh, or sometimes people don't know who I am recently We were in a vet and my boyfriend decided to tell people who wouldn't have known about me otherwise And he's just proud, right? So he was so happy to share Oh, Debbie runs dirt and tweeting and she's this and she talks to that person and it was so super sweet And there was somebody there I might have become friends with she was very interesting She was very engaging and what what was a big turnoff for me is that the moment we had a second together Without a breath she turned to me and said I'd really love to be a guest on your show How would I get on your show and it was such an affront and people would be surprised how much that happens to me And again, I'm not a Richard Branson, but I can say in my world if you want to develop a relationship with me make it with me And it will probably go far, right? I tend to bring wonderful people into my life But the moment you want something needs something it's about work. It's like, oh you're you could give me this and that It's just it's off It's not good And people know that If you come from a place that's too giving and find out what you can do, you know There's always something that you can give that that someone else would appreciate It could be making them laugh. It could be telling a story but You know, we never know How we impact other people people will always remember how you made them feel Let me give you a Richard Branson story. Please. Yeah, we played tennis after the match Richard would you like a cup of tea because no Anil? Give me the pleasure of making you a cup of tea. Wow, you know You learn so much from people like that Because he was humble another thing I learned from him is to wake up early in the morning So he wakes up at 5 a.m. Every morning And a lot of billionaires millionaires I leverage wake up early because When you wake up early your symptoms are on fire. You get a download from the universe It's a different energy. It's a different vibrancy by 8 or 9 o'clock you've done a lot of work You have the rest of the day to go ahead with Again 5 a.m. People it's 5 a.m. Where he is right now So if he can do it looking like he's on the spaceship enterprise you can too That's amazing Stephen Kotler who's a Pulitzer Prize Nominated writer and someone I've studied with and has been on the show He talks about the same thing. He's got insane what I consider to be insane hours because I tend to sleep in But he has a whole system for getting mega things done and just in support of what you're saying, Anil Stephen Kotler is a human performance technology expert. He goes to the best of the best of the best Ask them questions gets together the science and then he implements it in his life So if he's waking up early Richard Branson's waking up early, you're waking up early and getting all this There's probably something really important in there for us to pay attention to Yeah, and if you want to get up early, you can't be going to bed too late What time are you in bed? Well, I'm probably about 11 Ah I need about I work at about about six hours. But because I've traveled so much the time zone can be a little bit disruptive Yeah, understandable. Well, that's very cool. Okay, so maybe I'll start setting my alarm a little earlier I'll set it earlier and sing and do something and jump out of bed And you know if you're getting up at seven going from seven to five may be a big jump So do it in step seven to six thirty to six to five thirty to five Um, you know, you don't have to jump in and and definition of success is making progress So if every day you're making progress you are successful That's beautiful Well, this is dear to dream. This is an award-winning syndicated podcast And if you would like to donate to the show, I invite you to do so Go to patreon.com slash dear to dream this show will always be free to you And for the price of a cup of coffee or more you can donate to the show and the business admin and all it takes to Run this low these many years What would you do if you knew you could not fail? If you were wanting to live completely bold and free, what does that look like? Well, just know that the people I have on the show the whole message and reason for the show Is to show you the way and give you different points of view that can help you get there Again, go to patreon.com slash dear to dream And again, this is debbie dashinker and i'm interviewing anneal gupta. He is The guru to the gurus And his website is immediate happiness dot calm So anneal, I understand that you know three pathways That get us to happiness and fulfillment I don't know what that had to do with the three g's that give grateful and grow that we went over Or if there's a different formula there No, it's You know, it's a very simple formula but very practical This is let me give you something else for your viewers Any time during a day you you're not feeling happy All you have to do is look at the formula And find out which is the lowest g I saw that I thought it was a tail. I thought it was your tail, but no, it's a dog's tail That's so weird Shelby shelly And again listeners have fun, you know laugh at the smallest things don't go jump in puddles look up in the sky. Look at the clouds go by You know, it's the simple things that are the big things That seems to me so profound from somebody who is once thinking about taking his life And then to feel gratitude For so many of the things that people that pass people by that they don't even consider anymore But the fact that you look up in the sky or think even about a rain puddle in that way The greatest thing if you just Look up at the sky like you did as a kid and just watch and What will happen if your mind gets cleared out? And then you start thinking and beautiful thoughts come in your mind And what about relationships?  So we can maybe have a little bit more of that yummy family love that you have Yeah, you know the greatest mistake people making marriages? No Getting married It's good So the greatest mistake is this When you first get married you make each other your number one priority You give it the other person a lot of attention But later on in life, you know the kids come you get busy You stop making your partner your number one priority you make them you take them for granted That's the problem and then when you take someone for granted and then someone else gives that person some attention It's really hard to stop what's going to happen next which is You know Digression infidelity all sorts of things So if you make your partner your number one priority, they will never leave you But they also have to make you they're important to part of their life so It's a very simple thing, you know and the other thing is that men want to be respected women want to be loved People don't realize that women try and give love to men that they want respect Can you explain that? What does that look like? What does respect? How does that show up for a man that's meaningful? Okay for me, I I want to be told I I love you. I honor you. I'm proud of you Well done Good job and a physical pat on the back and hugs and kisses. You know very simple thing For a woman she wants to be heard She wants to be listened to yeah, she wants the man to be present. Yep And she doesn't want to be fixed Yep It's simple so A really great exercise if you're in a relationship and you can do this with your partner If you if you ask your partner, what can I do to make you feel more respected? And then say something. What else can I do? What else can I do? What else can I do? Then you know, it's very simple. All you have to do is just knock on those doors And the question he can ask you is what can I do to make you feel more loved? And if you say well, if you did this to me, I would feel loved if you did this for me, I would feel more loved If you did this to me, you would feel more loved And then you can ask them, what can I do to make you feel loved? You can ask them, what can I do to make you feel respected? Hmm So that way it's very simple because a communication is a big issue in relationships Major, okay. So is is that something you feel like on some level you've mastered? Well, there's never It's always ongoing As I change as my wife changes my son changes my daughter changes It's an ongoing situation and it should be because otherwise if it's not ongoing you get complacent What can we do? How can because I agree with you? When things are good They can be so good and there's appreciation and you really see oh, I feel so special this person's with me But when things start going wonky in a relationship Somebody starts doing something you don't prefer and then you know, even if it's subconscious there's some retaliation or resentment Whatever engagement starts to happen. It can really cause things to get off track So what would be like? Useful suggestions that we can employ that can make a really big difference And I don't know why this comes up But I feel like I have to put in the caveat without feeling like we're selling out a part of ourselves somehow Yeah, so It's not what you say how you say it so for example Many years ago, I would leave the toilet seat up and I would leave the the top of the face tube because You know, I'm I'm going to want it back again in the evening. What why why spend time putting it back on After this and it would irritate my wife and just to get back at her. I would do it deliberately And you know, and like you said that we've had a way three things, but one day. This is what she said to me anil Whenever you do that I cannot love you as much as I want to And I thought about it. That's true. You know, if she's out there No way can she lock it And I thought wow, that's so that's such a big thing So I thought I was just being funny, but no it goes much much deeper It goes very deep I want to speak to your point earlier because One of the key things you said that a woman really desires and man This is so big for me is feel the feeling of being heard and that is in conjunction with Please listen Please ask questions. Please let me know you're engaged, but please don't feel you have to tell me what to do or have suggestions It's like the worst Right, so when she's saying to you I would really love if you'd put down the toilet seat and put the cap and the toothpaste But you're choosing to turn a blind eye in fact a little Is in there too it does hurt It's like you're not only not hearing me But you're actually mindfully choosing not to hear me and to still do it and that It's amazing. What a little thing, right? We're talking about minutiae and yet it speaks volumes in a relationship Yeah As human beings we love to be right and if we have a feeling that my partner doesn't love me you will amass So much information and proof proof so A thing that you could do with your partner is say hey, honey I really felt hurt And I want to thank you and I really respect you for doing that So you're acknowledging him You're thanking him he feels respected It's a win-win for both of you. So it's not what you say it. How do you say it?  So I want to be rewarded But I do it with joy, you see and I think you know what this is so powerful and then I start looking for other things that I am doing That would stop her from loving me. It's very powerful. The small things are the big things Wow, I just feel like I want to sit in that for a minute The things that we do Mindfully or subconsciously even but also there's some mindfulness in there That's stop our partners. Why the heck do we do that? Stop them from loving us as much as they'd like to love us Well because one of the human beings we love to be right So we'll have mass data to we are meaning making machines. So we make things mean something So for example, if I rang my wife and she didn't return my call I could make it mean that she didn't love me. She didn't honor me. She didn't respect me When all that happened was she didn't call me back But then I would make a big story around it But this is the problem We were never given a manual and actually if I could mention my book it's called immediate happiness All of this is in my book. It's a manual on how we behave why we sabotage relationships Why we get upset how to break down and upset why we have expectations The way we speak how to speak it's very powerful Oh, I love it. Thank you so much. That was big.  What if it did everything?  It's already made me money. I love it It's thinkific. It is so brilliant all the biggest businesses and entrepreneurs are using it right now It is a powerful all-in-one platform very easy to share your knowledge to grow your audience frankly to scale your business So it gives you easy technology best support imaginable and you want to go to get your free months for free T h and k Dot cc slash deb. That's t h and k dot cc Slash deb a start now for free and that is an exclusive deal for you only And neil what about people who give too much? What is over giving about? Well, there's no such thing as over giving that the issue is if you give and you want something back Uh, a baby will never over give It's constant love, but it doesn't expect anything back. So then I ask yourself You know, am I giving to get something back and be honest with yourself?  She was always giving Uh, you know, it's unstoppable Uh And then notice how you feel you'll feel more energized You'll you'll feel more joyful and the other person will receive in a different way because it's coming from a pace of authenticity On a personal note for you and neil have you ever had to make a really Difficult choice in order to fulfill the path and the life that you're living now And if so, what was the choice that you had to make? Oh I have to cut some people out of my life And there were relatives and close relatives But I realized that it you know, I'm not here because of Any blood relationship. I'm here to serve and letting go of attachments Uh was a big thing for me So letting go of some family members and as soon as I let that go I got so much joy and freedom because I could be who I wanted to be I urge your viewers not to be Uh, uh footballs of other people's opinions. Don't worry what other people think of them Just do what you think is right and don't worry about other people It sounds like you're at peace with that decision It sounds like having done that made a difference in a shift in your life It gave me so much joy because I didn't have to See but the problem with family members is this there are more rules In a family member than there are with friends So with family members, you have to do certain things in a certain way at a certain time And that's very painful with friends. You can do anything anyway anyhow, but especially in Indian community There are so many rules and regulations. If I if I greeted the wrong person out of order That would cause an upset and and I can't live like that You know, I I'm doing what I think I should be doing and I don't want to be thinking Am I doing the right thing? Is this and I don't want to do that So I stepped out of that now I have freedom to be who I want to be I love it. Wow. Well, this is dare to dream Debbie dashinger I'm speaking with anneal gupta who shows you how to lead a richer fuller happier and meaningful life He wrote the book immediate happiness go to his website immediate happiness calm anneal This is dare to dream. What are you next dare to dream? What are your future dreams and goals? You know, I Set up an appointment to meet the Dalai Lama Very excited about that and we're working on some projects in India and China because really that's where the big players are and that's where I can make the biggest impact And it's working on the second book and really serving and if you're Listeners and viewers are interested in finding out how happy they are If they want to take the happy test, it's my happy test calm and they'll get a Score plus detail breakdown of how they can improve their happy score What is a practice that you use on a daily basis that helps keep you Aligned or grounded. What's your daily ritual or practice?  It's not about you. It's about the difference you make I'm strong. I'm powerful. I'm invincible I'm here to serve. I make a difference.  I choose how I run it. I choose how I live it so these are these are things that people can practice by themselves and uh Make them wipe them down They can leave it on the mirror and after a while they can just repeat themselves Because we are who we are. We are what we think. We are what we say. We are what we think So if you change those She thinks she's digging to another country, but it is my rug But it's her in her dna to dig So it's hilarious. She's Yeah, she needs her own webcam and her own reality show But I forgive me I really want to go back to what you said because I really loved hearing Will you say again you look at yourself in the mirror and I want to make sure myself for sure And everybody gets what you just said and you say to yourself today's the day. Keep going What was the rest of them? Today's the day it's my life. I choose how I run it. I choose how I live it I choose freedom I choose peace I choose tranquility It's not about me It's about the difference I make I make a difference I change lives Am I ready? Yes, you're ready I may have to put you on that in one of my classes. That's beautiful today's the day. It's my life I choose how I run it. I choose how I live it. I choose peace. I choose tranquility It's not about me. It's about the difference I make I change lives. I'm ready Anil Yeah, another one you can add at the end. He said I am free I am free. I am free. I am free. I love me. I love me. I love me I am free three times and I love me three times Beautiful Well, Anil, thank you so much for coming in the show and sharing your brilliance under the dream It's been amazing my friend and I'm gonna end today's show Yeah I adore you This is a quote from Anil Gupta Adversity is your friend. It's not what happens in life. It's who you become In that moment you decide I'm bigger than this That's when you start to grow If you'd like to listen to last week's interview on archives or replay you'll hear dr. John D martini And next up on dare to dream radio and podcast. I am featuring ken honda Who is japan's best-selling zen millionaire ken wrote the new york times best-selling book happy money You can subscribe to the show from all the podcast Sites and also from youtube go to youtube.com slash debbie dashing or if you'd like to watch and actually see myself and my Guest, that's the most fun and you can get to see or hear this number one transformation Conversation, thank you for joining us and remember the secret of success is having the courage to begin in the first place


It's March and autumn has just set in. The cooler weather has finally started to arrive and I welcome it gladly after the hot humid summer we had. We had a lot of rain in the summer so beach days were in short supply for me. I haven't been diving nearly as often as I'd like as the rivers oceans and streams around my area have been full of sediment and muck from the heavy rains we've had which has stirred up the sand and dirt making it almost impossible to see anything more than a meter in front but I still managed to get out when I can and on this beautiful Saturday I made a day of it seeing as the weather was so perfect. On a typical day in my life I'll get up at 7 a.m. and dedicate 30 to 40 minutes of exercise. I'll usually focus on strength training to help tone up my body a bit. My favorite workouts to do are Pamela Reef's workouts on YouTube. I'll usually start by doing 10 to 20 minutes of booty workout followed by 10 to 15 minutes of abs and finish with 10 to 15 minutes of in a thigh workout. I love the burn it gives and I can feel my muscles working and strengthening. After my workouts I do 10 to 15 minutes of yoga. I find it helps me to relax and work on bringing awareness to my breathing when I workout as I'm a classic breath holder. I've also set a goal for myself to achieve the splits hopefully by the end of this year. As you can see I've still got a fair ways to go but compared to where I've started I've noticed I've come a long way so I'm really happy about it. I've also learned not to push too hard and force my body to go further than it can as I've torn many muscles along the way and I've had to learn the lesson the hard way. After my yoga practice I do 10 minutes of breath work following Wim Hof's breathing style. I find it has been so helpful for my anxiety and helps me to release any stress that I may be holding on to when I wake up in the mornings. To finish I do 30 minutes to one hour of meditation following the box breathing method which is breathing in through my nose for four seconds, holding for four seconds, breathing out through my mouth for four seconds and holding again for four seconds. This helps keep my mind from wandering too much though it still does so I just have to keep bringing it back to the present moment and focus on my breathing again.  Good morning guys today I am going to make the most of this incredible day that we're having actually I'll show you it's just stunning. Look at that beautiful sun. I swear most of this summer has just been rainy so on days like this when you have sun out and about like I try to make the most of it try and get as much sun as I can in between the rainy days so today is going to be a beach day for me I can't wait this week has just been work work work for me I've been catching up on assignments and things I've been doing for my course so I haven't had much time to myself so this weekend I'm just making the most of it having some me time and just on a day like today just going to the beach. That's what I love about living next to the coast is that I can just go to the beach whenever I want back home when I was living in Sydney I was about the closest beach to me was about 40 minutes away so this is such a nice change. It'll take me around 30 minutes to ride there but I love the trail along the way and will often admire the scenery as I'm going along. The only times I really don't like riding is in spring when the magpies start to nest and soup anyone within a hundred foot radius of their nest. The ocean is such a healer for me whatever might be going on in my life I know I can come here and find space time and some peace amongst the waves. I find it melts away any stress or anxiety I have in those moments in the water. It's a refreshing thing after like just week of just work work work it's like the most relaxing thing to come out here. It always feels so rejuvenated and for me it's like a nice reset for the week. Just to kind of reset my body, reset my mind so I can dip in the water and dip in the ocean. It's amazing. On a day like today after my swim I'll go to one of my favorite cafes. Today it was the Social Brew in Burley and I'll order in a side bowl and a coffee and just sit and either read a book or people watch. I love seeing people interact with their friends and family plus cafe food is just the bomb. I love the social brew as it's like being out in nature while still being in suburbia. They have hanging plants all over the cafe and soft lighting which I feel creates the illusion of a forest. It's very peaceful here even on busy days like today. In the late afternoon I love to go for a swim. I did it a lot during the summer as it was just so hot and humid and it helped me cool down in the evenings. As it's only just the start of autumn the weather's still been warm enough to do evening swims. I love this time of day as it's so much quieter and there's usually no one else using the pool at this hour. For dinner tonight I made a broccoli and sweet potato salad it's so good and then the dressing I just used tahini, honey, you can also use mustard seed instead, olive oil, garlic and tamari sauce and I just mix that together and oh my gosh it's so good. The dressing honestly makes the salad it is amazing and then I just used spinach, broccoli which I boiled and sweet potato which I roasted. Aww, thanks Jackie. I was just thinking about you. Wanna know why? Come on. Aww. I love you too. Aww, hi. There you go. Have fun. You will be missed. I'll miss you. Thank you. I look forward to it. Thank you to every single one of you for subscribing and watching my videos. I am so moved to have 5000 of you who want to watch my videos and follow my journey and be part of this amazing community we have here. I am so humbled and so thankful for all of you here. I'd love to get to know you a little better. Please share in the comments below a little bit about yourself. I'd really love to get to know you all a little bit better because it's easier to take in how many of you are actually watching these videos. I hope I can make your day a little bit brighter with this video. I also want to say that I hope you stay safe. I hope you take care of yourself and of each other. It's really hard times right now. I'm sending you so much love. Thank you for being here and I'll see you again soon.