Connected Podcast Episode 205: Cybersecurity in the Age of AI

Hi, I'm Greg Uland with Reynolds and Reynolds  and this is Connected. Today's an in-person   episode. I'm really excited I get to sit down with  Nikhil Kalani. Uh I've known Nikhil for quite a  

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long time. He's our chief information security  officer here at Reynolds. He also serves as our   vice president of information security. Um and  on top of that, Nikhil is responsible for Proton  

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Dealership IT and Cybersecurity. So, uh lots  of experience uh in the room with me today. And  

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Nikhil, thanks so much for sitting down and  talking. Thank you for having me, Greg. Yep,   absolutely. So, Nikhil, just recently, uh,  you spoke at the Ohio Secretary of State  

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Cyber Security Conference, and there were a lot of  topics that came up and I thought it'd be a good   idea for us to sit down and just share some of  the most recent things that you're seeing in the  

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cyber security space, uh, specifically in the  dealership world, but but also in general. Um,   and I thought maybe we could start with the impact  that artificial intelligence is having. I mean,  

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I'm in a lot of conversations around artificial  intelligence and I swear every time I get asked   what what should we look out for and and my  default is always I mean a big big thing to  

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look out for is is how AI is being used in cyber  security. Um so I thought maybe we could start   there and you should you could share um kind of  you know anything that's top of mind for you.  

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Sure. You know AI is being used by both the good  guys and the bad guys, right? It's just an arms   race of of who's going to win that one. Uh on the  cyber security front, the primary topic I'd be  

The Evolution of Deepfakes.

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concerned about if I were a dealer is about fraud,  right? Financial fraud, funds transfer fraud.  

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That's not a new kind of fraud. It's been around  for a long time. But AI is making it easier,   faster, cheaper for the bad guys. Their ability  to impersonate the good guys is so much better now  

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than it was just a short while ago. So you might  recall, Greg, in 2024 there was a $25 million loss  

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by a company in Hong Kong. This was January  2024. And the way that that scam worked was  

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the finance employee was on a video call  with the CFO, couple of other team members.  

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It all looked it all looked really good and  the finance employee had the right instinct,   but seeing the team on a live call, they went  through with the transfer requested. That was more  

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than two years ago. Yeah. Right. Since then, the  ability to deep fake has gotten so much better.  

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It's no longer a headline. Yeah, that type of  fraud is now a category, not a headline. Yeah.  

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Yeah. And I I want to make a real um specific  point on that because you dove right into   fraud and it's interesting because a lot  of times people think of cyber security,  

FBI Fraud Statistics and AI Growth.

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right? And they think of hardware and they  think of technology and and they think about  

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networks and infrastructures and what you  described was quite literally an impersonation,  

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right? and and fraud as a category is, you know,  maybe maybe give me your perspective, but um  

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it's it's big business for criminals. I mean, that  that portion it's it's not about, you know, brute  

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force attacking trying to get into a network.  It's it's massive business because it's fast.   It's relatively easy and cheap for them to do. So,  the FBI recently reported uh about 21 billion in  

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fraud on Americans using cyber techniques. Mhm.  Um, specifically for the first time now in their  

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April report, they reported AI based fraud as  about $900 million. Wow. And that's just a part  

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of the overall cyber crime uh pool of numbers that  they have. So it is significant. It's ramping up  

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and we should just expect more of it. Yeah. Yeah.  So maybe if you don't mind then give some other  

Real World Fraud Stories.

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examples, right? Some stories about how things  have happened. So, I'll share one. A good friend   of mine um he he has a law firm. He's an attorney  and he had a client that he was representing and  

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um long story short, basically he  got he got an email and that email   basically updated um the bank account information  that that a funds transfer was supposed to go to.  

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He authorized it and $800,000 was was gone. Um and  you know, luckily had cyber insurance and and law  

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enforcement got involved and and everything worked  out okay. But boy, that's a that's a stressful   I mean, not day, that was a stressful month and a  half, right? Trying to work through all that. Um,  

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and and those little things and those  little you're in a hurry and you click yes,  

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um, or authorize or send and then everything  changes, right, in one click. So, um,  

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that was just a tangible example that, you know,  somebody close to me experienced and just talking   to him about it, man, it was it was terrifying.  And that's a big number, 800,000. Right now,  

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unfortunately, it's all too common. The average  for these losses is $25,000 per incident. Right.  

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Right. $25,000 in one email gone like that. Right.  So, uh faking an invoice is very common. Mhm. Um  

Real-Time Video and Voice Impersonation.

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the video part of it now, like I said, very common  for approvals. There's always uh the the common  

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theme in these is a sense of urgency. Y often it's  keep it confidential, right? We can't talk about  

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this. You may recall the Ferrari uh story where  there was uh an executive who received a call from  

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the CEO. Mhm. And they were asked to make this  confidential funds transfer. In that situation,  

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the executive was thinking on their feet.  And although the voice sounded perfect,   the inflection was perfect, something about it  didn't quite feel just right. So the executive  

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asked the CEO, "Hey, you lent me this book to  read last week. What's the name of the book?"  

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So those there's an interesting way very low tech  way sure of defeating high-tech crime right now  

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I said high-tech crime but it's just really easily  accessible so there's open- source projects freely  

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downloadable will run on a gaming PC for realtime  video conversion so you can be on a team's call  

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uh and in about 50 milliseconds which people  will not perceive on a on a video call uh  

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the attacker's face and voice are transformed. So  they can literally be having an interaction with  

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uh a dealership team member, but all of that's  getting transformed in real time and getting  

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published as um you whoever they impersonating.  And in a small little team's video or zoom video,  

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you probably won't pick it up. So So relying  on the human being to detect is just not a good  

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strategy. Sure. We've got to have some process  related strategies. Uh the unexpected question,  

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right? The secret question, secret passphrase,  those kinds of things. Uh spycraft. Uh  

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that is very helpful. So how do you how do you I  guess what's the most effective way to communicate  

Building a Culture of Verification.

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that to your whether it's your entire team or  uh you know kind of your executive level inner  

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circle team that that may be exposed to this type  of stuff? I mean is this something that you just   discuss on an ongoing basis and say hey this is  something that we're going to implement you know  

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in the store uh implement as part of our business  when we're if we're doing talking about any sort  

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of financial transaction um we're going to have  you know we're going to implement a process where  

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we have a something like you know whether it's a  password or whatever it is like is it that simple  

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I think a major part of this needs to be  the communication of the culture where  

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going slowly, going carefully, verifying  is rewarded, not punished for being slower.  

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Right? Everybody's busy. Mhm. But we've got to  have the people who handle the money take the time  

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that's needed to get this right. Mhm. [clears  throat] So, as part of that communication,   not just the teaching, but truly the leaders  establishing the culture of it's okay to verify,  

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it's okay to challenge me, right? Challenge the  CEO, challenge the CFO. Uh so that it builds the  

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verification in with confidence. Yeah. No, I  mean that makes a lot of sense. Um okay, so  

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you talked about video, you gave the story about  voice. Um I think we've all probably heard the  

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stories. I just shared one about email, right? And  and not even needing to use voice or or video. Um  

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so there's a lot of ways that fraud can can happen  and it's all kind of financially driven. Yes. Um,  

Adversary in the Middle (AiTM) Explained.

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so let let's also talk, NIL, if you don't mind,  about some of these other types of attacks that  

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are becoming more and more common. Um, I've heard  you talk about adversary in the middle. When I   first heard about it, it didn't make complete  sense in my head, but hearing you describe it,  

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it's it's definitely made sense now. So, I guess  talk about that for anybody that hasn't heard   that term. Um, it it's also a pretty powerful  one. Sure. This is extremely common actually.  

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Unfortunately, it's almost normal at this point,  right? we expect it. So the way the scam works,  

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it there's different degrees of sophistication. So  I'll play one out where um employee gets a message  

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warranting, you know, asking for some action  to be taken. It might be funds transfer or   probably initially more innocuous because the  attacker simply wants access to their email.  

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So hey, log to this to see this attachment. Now  

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depending on how detailed the attackers wants to  get, how detailed the employees in their training,  

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they might have you can call me to verify, right?  I'll call you on your phone, verify, but the   voice is faked in the verification. I'm the IT  guy, so and so they got the name of LinkedIn.  

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So they're able to impersonate the employee  very well and maybe trick the associate,   the employee, into thinking they're working with  the real IT department of a company. That's one  

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way to do this. But typically um to see this  attachment log into Microsoft uh office. Sure.  

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When you're logging in, you may not be logging  to the actual Microsoft Office. You've got a   fake page. You give it your credentials. The fake  page transfers it to the actual Microsoft Office.  

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Microsoft Office might have an MFA challenge back.  All they do is replay that challenge back to the  

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uh the employee. Mhm. And the employee enters  the MFA value. it goes into the middle that  

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right a proxy website uh and it's replayed back to  Microsoft they accept they issue what is called as  

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a token this is where um it's a little technical  I'll simplify to just a token it's an entry ticket  

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into the Microsoft office world they give  it to the the the man-in-the-middle website  

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or the proxy website so they have a copy they'll  pass it on to the request the original employee  

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the employee was none the wiser they actually got  logged to Microsoft Office not realizing all that  

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time there was somebody in the middle taking  all of this and even MFA could not save them   in this situation. Now there are types of MFA  that could save them. MFA is not created equal,  

Phishing Resistant MFA and Hardware Keys.

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right? There's different kinds of MFA and one  in particular I'll talk about is called fishing   resistant MFA. Okay, there's several kinds of  fishing resistant MFA but the concept is the same.  

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It does not rely on just a code or an SMS text.  It's it relies on something on the device that is  

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registered with the website we're trying to log  into. So whether it's a bank or it's Microsoft   Office, you might require the exact laptop or  the PC that you first use to register with them  

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because all the codes are stored on that machine.  Okay, in effect the machine is a factor in the  

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multiffactor authentication. It can be mobile. So  you can have uh a little USB key that you put on  

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your key ring so it can go with you from computer  to computer. Uh but still it's a piece of hardware  

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that you must have and all the codes  are on that hardware to conduct login.  

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Right? So it cannot be stolen through this  proxy or attacker in the middle uh tool.  

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So that's a very good way. It's worth the  investment. It's in some cases free. for example,   Windows Hello for Business or just even a pass key  in general, relying on a pin for you to unlock it.  

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Those kinds of things, they live on the hardware.  But if you want something more mobile, $50 UB key  

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that gets you there. Interesting. No, that's that  I mean, [sighs] it's always changing, right? So,  

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there's always always something new. Um, no,  that's a very very interesting um kind of type of  

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attack and one to be on the lookout for. Um, all  right. So, I also want to talk with you about um,  

Decreasing Dwell Times in Attacks.

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you know, those types of attacks that still  happen uh, pretty regularly where somebody's  

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gaining access to the network, right? And they're  they're going to either try to steal data or   do do something harmful to the business. Um, still  still very common. So, let's let's talk a little  

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bit about those two. You know, you talked about  fraud a lot, which I think is something that maybe   doesn't get talked about enough to be honest with  you. Um, and so then when we we go to maybe what a  

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lot of people consider traditional cyber security  measures. Um, you know, what are we what are we   seeing there? What what are you and your team  seeing there uh in you know, in today's world?  

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So in the context of a traditional  cyber attack, ransomware type of attack,  

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what we are seeing is that the speed of the attack  is accelerating massively. Okay, once upon a time  

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it used to be 30 days of what is called as dwell  time. Uh the time it takes for the attacker to  

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have some initial access to your network and  then actually implement their objectives.  

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30 days used to be a number a couple of years  ago. Then it went to 3 weeks, two weeks, one week.  

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One week might be luxurious. Now, sure they have  I read about some attacks that are executed within  

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hours. Sometimes if the attack is small and  extremely targeted, it can be minutes, right?  

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Fully automated AIdriven minutes. But I'll say um  a good number to design for if you're managing a  

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large network. Mhm. At least plan for the attack  being executed within a few hours from start to  

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finish. Right. At that point, when you're talking  about hours, and those hours might begin at 3:00   a.m. on a Saturday. Yeah. Right. Human speed is  not reliable for detection and remediation. You've  

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got to have the right kinds of tools that can  intervene in seconds because giving an attacker  

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five minutes of access today might be way too  much, right? Once upon a time 5 minutes was  

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uh you know not a big number in this  context. Today it is a big number.   So it sounds like speed is the the  really the most important factor. So  

Robot Wars - Automated Defense vs Attacks.

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and and I want to also think about this. I've been  thinking about it a decent amount lately and we've   talked about it a little bit before. Um you know  this concept of of kind of proactive security,  

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right? Um hardening your your cyber security  position and reactive defense, right? So,  

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as something's happening, how do you defend  against it? How do you do you make it stop? Um,  

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and let's let's continue down this defense  path, right? This reactive path. Um,  

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knowing that 5 minutes might be too long. What do  you that's that's a scary that's a scary thought,  

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especially if it is at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday.  Yes. So, this becomes really about robot wars,   right? The attackers are using automation to  conduct the attack. The only viable defense  

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is automated defense at that speed. Sure. Right.  So it comes down to the engineering of the tools.  

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Your security architecture has to have  the sophisticated mechanisms built into it  

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to see the signals in real time. Understand  what's happening and react all within seconds  

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not minutes ideally. So it's an engineering  function and it's raised the bar right. So,  

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so a cyber team that doesn't have that level of  sophistication is going to struggle against the   modern attacks. I I want to point something out.  We talk a lot about network attacks, but attacks  

Why Identity is the New Perimeter.

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can be categorized in a few different ways.   Uh endpoint or the PC, the laptop, uh the very  machine being attacked, that's a piece of it.  

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Um identity, the accounts being used is a huge  piece of it. Yeah. And we still, at least when I'm  

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working with dealers, we don't often talk about  identity as much. The focus is still network,  

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but I want to get it more granular. Network  is maybe the big container being attacked. But  

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within a network, it's endpoints, its identity,  uh it's email accounts, those finer grains,  

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those have to be controlled very tightly. Sure.  So defense ends up focusing on those finer levels.  

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Well, and when you think about accounts, you know,  just to put a, you know, a fine point on it, it it  

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can be as simple as a a Gmail address, right? That  logs you into all of your Google um ecosystem,  

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u if you're using, you know, the G Suite to run  your business, uh, and somebody gets a login,  

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everything's there, right? So, that identity, it  could be a Gmail address. Um, that identity could   be your login. You use the Microsoft uh office  example earlier, right? If you're using Microsoft  

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Office to run a large portion of your business  um lo somebody gets that login information  

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uh they can go across all these different tools.  So um you know when you talk about identity  

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just to simplify it that's what we're talking  about is yes correct as a username and password.   It is impersonation of the human being using  their login credentials right and and nowadays  

Choosing the Right Password Manager.

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the credential is used quite broadly like you said  across the office suite potentially and if the uh  

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if the individual is reusing passwords that  makes it so much worse when they broaden their  

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attack surface versus having tightly controlled  passwords. So one of the key controls is a   password manager, right? Um at this point any of  us might have over 100 passwords, I think, right?  

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How can you possibly uh in your brain store  unique passwords? You really cannot. Sure.  

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So password manager should be a required  piece of uh control given to our employees  

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and they don't cost very much and $3  gets you pretty nice password manager.   Yeah. So talk about the difference between  password manager in the context that you're using  

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versus I have all my passwords saved in my iPhone  or I have all my passwords saved in Google Chrome.  

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If the budget is $0, the browser password manager  is better than not having one. Right? And and you  

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can attack the system, you can attack the browser.  It is possible to steal those and it's it's in the  

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workflow. Whereas a dedicated password manager  being just a separate piece has a different  

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attack um surface is a little more complex to  attack versus just built into the browser. Like  

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we talk about patching our browsers all the time,  right? Browsers have vulnerabilities. Sure. Google   Chrome, Firefox, uh Edge are constantly requiring  updates. So tool on the side that's purpose-built,  

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I would choose that. But in but if we aren't going  to go that route, the browser and its password  

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manager is still better than simply not having  one. Sure. Okay. No, and that um that's good.  

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And the way these work, right, it's a separate  basically application that lives on the PC. You   have a master password or passphrase or you know  something complex to unlock the password manager  

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and then all of your passwords for every login are  stored inside the password manager. Okay, good.  

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Um, you know, another another thing I wanted to  talk about with you, NIL, um, is, so going back to  

Machine Speed Vulnerability Research.

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that idea of kind of reactive versus proactive and  and we started talking about the proactive stuff,   password managers, um, but but also, you know,  patching software. You mentioned the browser.  

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Um, but all software needs updates, right? I mean,  we get Microsoft Office updates weekly, right? And  

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and you need to restart things and and updates  are pushed out, security updates are pushed out.   Um, and you think about this world of AI and  um, what does that mean for the IT professionals  

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in the store? Because most most dealerships,  certainly dealership groups have an IT person   or an IT team that are managing all the PCs  in the store, managing all the software. So,  

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um, you know, what is what does this all  mean in in an AI speed related world?  

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So what AI is being used for nowadays is to  find vulnerabilities in software at a speed  

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human beings simply have not seen before. Mhm. Um  there's newer models some of which have not been  

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released for safety reasons because they're  just so good at at building attack software.  

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Uh but uh at some point those will be very  easily accessible even even not using the  

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very best models which are still currently  being withheld. Mhm. Second best, third best,  

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still good enough at finding vulnerabilities  at a speed we have never found before.  

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So the ability for bad guys and good guys  to find problems with software is now at  

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amazing machine speeds. That's going to force  patching to be at a speed that we haven't had   to do before. It was fine once upon a time to  patch in say 30 days. I'm talking about a little  

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while ago. Sure. That's no longer realistic.  machines are finding the issues too fast.  

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So we should expect an increase in the amount of  patching we'll have to do and an increase in how   fast we'll have to get the patches deployed. Yeah.  So there will be a strain on IT teams for sure.  

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And what does that mean? So and this might  be a silly question. Tell me if it is. Um but   you know there's those days when um I'll get the  little update that says you need to restart all  

The Future of Patching Frequencies.

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your Microsoft Office applications and I'm like  no I'm in the middle of 14 things and I can't do   that right now and so I ignore it. I ignore it.  Um, or there's those mornings when, you know, I I  

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leave my computer on overnight and I got a couple  things open and I go to to log in in the morning   and it's shut down overnight and I'm like, ah,  cuz it had a Windows update, right? Um, you know,  

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are there implications to how frequent those types  of things will happen, too? I mean, is it is it to   the point where it's going to interrupt workflows  in in the business? So, as it stands today,  

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the day we're recording this, there's still the  concept in the Microsoft world of patch Tuesday.   Okay. They're still releasing monthly. Uh we need  to see how that evolves. But at least finding  

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the problems, the software vulnerabilities  that's exploding in speed and the vendors  

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haven't yet caught up with how fast can we deploy  solutions and get them out uh into our systems. So  

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uh it's an evolving field, I'll say. Yeah. Okay.  All right. That's fair. It is. It's interesting  

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to think about though, you know, because you do  have those slight interruptions or I'll call them   annoyances. And and if that accelerates, boy,  it's just going to it's it's going to be like  

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MFA was when it first came out, right? It used to  be you'd get the prompt for MFA and it's like, oh  

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my goodness, it was so annoying. Um and in today's  world, it's like, man, I'm glad we do this. This   Yes. [laughter] This makes me feel a lot  better. Yes. We need to get used to very fast,  

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very frequent patches. Yeah. Okay. No, it'll be  interesting to to follow that. Um I I I want to  

Withholding Models for Safety Reasons.

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pick your brain a little bit too just because  I find it pretty fascinating. You mentioned   um you know AI tools that aren't being released  because of safety reasons. You're you're clearly  

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referring to Anthropic's latest model and  they've made it very very public that they  

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um have withheld this model. Yes. And their  framing was was pretty fascinating to me. So I  

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I wonder from your perspective how much of  of their framing of you know it's it's for   safety. we don't want this getting into  the the hands of the wrong people. Um,  

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how much of their framing is truly, you know,  we we don't want this getting into the hands  

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of the wrong people. And how much of it is  positioning as we just created the the best,   you know, LLM that's ever been created,  the best AI tool has ever been created,  

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and we want to get attention for that. And and  we've been in this cycle for two years of like,  

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oh, this one's better. No, this one's better. No,  this one's better. And every release, each one of   them is truly better than the next. So I'm curious  what your what your take is on that. Okay. Sure.  

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There's marketing. Yes. But it is real that these  tools are fantastic at finding software problems.  

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So Anthropic since you mentioned them  specifically has a project called Glass Wing.   Okay. And they have selectively let companies  participate. So they have selected the partners.  

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Uh Microsoft is one of them. Google's one of them.  There several of these partners now. And these  

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these partners are seeing the power of the  tools. It's not all just made up. It's not   all just marketing. Of course, there's the the  marketing angle, but the capability is real. Okay.  

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I mean, that's that's it's interesting. It just,  you know, there's there's all these different   pieces to it. And um I mean, the AI war right now  is is a real thing. you look at these companies  

The Rapid Pace of Model Releases.

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that are out there and they're all trying to all  trying to win because it is each model comes out   and I mean it's not quite as exponential as it was  12 months ago just because you know we're we're  

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getting to a point where you just can't uh  go that rapidly anymore or make those big   of jumps anymore but the jumps are still very  large when when the next model comes out when  

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the next release comes out. So so I'll give  you an example uh Opus 4.8 okay was launched  

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just a few weeks after 4.7 Mhm. right? Weeks  for a version out. It wasn't a version five,  

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right? It wasn't a whole major version change, but  still weeks to launch a new capability. And then  

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uh just recently they launched Fable. They call  it Fable 5. And that is one level down from their  

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top model. Uh again for safety reasons, but yes,  the pace of release is significant. Yeah. Yeah. Um  

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no, it's it's just it's really interesting stuff.  I'm glad you made you made time to sit down with   me. There's a whole bunch of stuff that I I had  kind of thought about talking about with you,  

Investing in the Human Firewall.

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but this conversation's been um been really  good. It's it's flowed really nicely. Um  

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what else is on your mind maybe that  we haven't talked about or anything I   I should have asked you about that I didn't? Um  anything you want to make sure to to talk about?  

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I don't want to come across as all doom and  gloom because I don't think that's the case,   right? But there is a competency required  to defend against attacks in this world.  

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Uh dealers should invest in that competency. uh  investing in knowledge is it's practically free  

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and one of the biggest wins they can have.  Setting the right culture is huge for them.  

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Uh we you know we talk about the human firewall,  right? It's not always just technology.  

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Human beings running with their instincts, making  good decisions, not buckling to time pressure is  

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a massive win for for businesses. So invest in the  human angle, invest in your security capabilities.  

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Uh and you know, we should come out okay in the  robot wars if we do those things. Yeah. Yeah. No,   that's good. And and let's uh those those  are two good points. So let's just expand  

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on just a little bit. Double click here. So the  first one, you know, investing in the competency   that can take really two forms, right? It can  take investing in somebody in the store and it  

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can take or it could be um investing in a company  like Proton to assist or or both, honestly. Um  

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but one the other or both of them combined is is  really important today and it's going to continue  

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to increase in importance as we go forward. Right.  Yes. It's an engineering challenge. Right. And and  

IT vs Security Specialization.

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you know I've long told you Greg it and  security are different skills. Mhm. Right.   They're related but they are different skills. We  solve different problems in the technology space.  

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So relying on the you say the traditional IT guy  to expect that person to be able to engineer the  

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solutions needed to deal with modern cyber crime  that's a big ask. Yeah. It is a specialization.  

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It should be treated as such. Yeah. Yeah. Know  that's a good that's a really good point. Um   okay. So then the other thing you mentioned  was knowledge right and educating employees.  

Employee Training and Deep Fake Exposure.

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Uh and I can speak from experience at at Reynolds.  you can probably speak more experience uh in the   dealership world since you you see it every day  with Proton. Uh but you know we have vulnerability  

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uh kind of penetration testing every day. Every  day we get emails to to make sure that our   associates um aren't click that they can recognize  these kind of spam emails, right? Um and we do  

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testing that's that's required on an ongoing basis  where we have to go through a a cyber security  

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course and we have to take a test on it. So we're  we're constantly updated. I'm I'm grateful for   that. not just from a business perspective but  honestly from a personal perspective too right  

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it's it's a almost a gift that the company gives  um but you know those types of things uh do make a  

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huge difference so is is it very are there other  things I guess beyond that that you see in the   dealership world or other ways to execute on it  [snorts] so a lot of this training has been very  

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focused on email right we've got to also train for  deep fakes and you can't really rely on the human  

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being to spot a deep fake on a video call. It's  It's almost a coin flip at this point, right? Um  

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are you familiar with the Will Smith spaghetti  videos on YouTube? Yeah. So So for those who   haven't seen this, it's worth looking up. It shows  the evolution of video generation uh from a few  

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years. And if you look at the 2026 version of it,  it is pretty darn good. Yeah. So exposing people  

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to the fact that this type of uh representation  impersonation should be considered normal,  

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right? and and having your processes  work through those situations as well.   That training is very critical. Yeah. Okay.  Can I add, we've talked a lot about fraud,  

Final Summary and Outro.

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right? The traditional cyber crime that that  people think about ransomware that that's what  

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makes the news that's still happening all  the time, but fraud has become so common.   In some cases, it's barely even newsworthy  anymore. So, you don't read about it as much  

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because it's just a constant, right? That's why  I want to focus on fraud in particular. It's it's   very preventable. Uh dealers have power just  through education, good policies. So I want to  

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emphasize that uh while ransomware of course like  I said is is still happening on a daily basis,  

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I want to draw attention in particular to fraud.  That's a great uh a great call out. Um and  

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honestly good place to probably land the plane  here. It's been uh been a very it's been a fun   conversation. I always learn something when I when  I get to talk with you and I get to sit down with  

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you. So, um I I hope that uh everybody listening  got a chance to learn something too. Um but Nil,  

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I do appreciate your time. So, thank you very  much for for joining me. Thank you. Thank you for   having me and I I hope this helps our dealers  and uh then they can use education and good  

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investments to to be on the right side of this  equation. Thank you, Greg. Perfect. Thanks. Well,  

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I hope you got a lot out of that conversation with  Nikhil Kalani. Uh he's a wealth of knowledge, has   tremendous experience, and I really do appreciate  him sitting down with I learn something every time  

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I get to talk to him. Uh before we hop off, don't  forget you can watch or listen to all episodes of   Connected on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify podcasts.  And make sure to hit subscribe so you're notified  

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every other week when new episodes are released.  Thanks so much. We'll see you in two weeks.