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Though many organizations are simply starting to undertake XDR options and methods, the seeds of detecting and responding throughout a number of safety layers has been in place for a a few years, with the necessity for visibility throughout environments stretching again even additional. Safety analysts use knowledge and buyer suggestions to measure the worth that early XDR-adopters have been experiencing.
XDR goes past the SIEM
When requested, “What are the best instruments you’ve been utilizing for menace detection and response,” organizations named safety data and occasion administration (SIEM) most steadily. That is in keeping with latest research carried out by third-party analyst agency ESG. However 57% of these surveyed additionally responded that they’ve struggled with points linked to their SIEM, citing an overload of knowledge factors, excessive value of operation, and points securing the specialised sources required. When interviewing early-adopters of XDR, ESG reported that the interviewees had been capable of detect a compromise in only some days or much less attributable to higher visibility. The identical report discovered that eight full-time equal individuals can be wanted to exchange the automation that they at present have in place since switching to an XDR technique.
Three areas of worth XDR delivers
Talking with early-adopters, ESG decided the three areas of worth XDR gives.
Safety effectiveness. This refers back to the common efficacy of the answer by way of elevated safety posture.
Enterprise enablement. XDR helps eradicate the numerous silos of knowledge utilized within the regular safety operations course of in an effort to analyze and examine assaults. This additionally helps organizations streamline the operations course of attributable to much less ingest processing of knowledge.
Price discount. This contains vendor and product consolidation and extra environment friendly triage station course of. Fewer profitable assaults means much less time spent remediating in incident response actions, which interprets to vital financial savings.
Early XDR-adopter sees dramatic change
Whereas MedImpact Healthcare’s endpoint safety merchandise had been built-in into the corporate’s SIEM companies, the pharmacy profit supervisor service joined the XDR motion sooner than a lot of its friends. MedImpact discovered their XDR software is very built-in with their present surroundings, in addition to the environments they’ve deployed. The corporate discovered that XDR supplied a extra complete overview of their infrastructure and community interface and firewalls. This enables their group to instantly make a deduction as to what’s has occurred of their surroundings and to see again to the supply of the issue and clear up it, saving worthwhile time and prices.
Wish to hear extra about how analysts and purchasers decided the true worth of XDR options? Watch The Economics of XDR with Senior Analyst at ESG, Dave Gruber, Vice President and CISO at MedImpact Healthcare Company, Frank Bunton, and Director of Product Administration at Pattern Micro, Eric Shulze.
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Dave Gruber Hello, everybody. In my function as a cybersecurity analyst at ESG, I have been paying shut consideration to what options are within the market to assist organizations with menace detection and response, and as such, I’ve been trying carefully on the XDR motion that has developed over the past couple of years. And in reality, I have been working carefully with Pattern Micro to assist watch the progress of that area, perceive what purchaser expectations are, and as individuals start to undertake options within the XDR area to assist quantify the outcomes of these resolution units. And so in doing so, I’ve executed various analysis research over the past 12 months. And I needed to only share a bit bit about what these had been all about within the early a part of 2020.
Working along with Pattern Micro, I took a detailed take a look at what the challenges had been in safety operations middle which might be related to menace detection and response. And put collectively a benchmark mannequin to know which corporations had been only, what the traits of these corporations had been, what sort of instruments and operations and processes they had been using as nicely after which took a take a look at how they had been adopting and make the most of an XDR strategy to resolve these issues. We additionally took a take a look at quantifying the outcomes of these organizations to attempt to get a way for a way a lot worth actually exists, each by way of safety efficacy and the efficiencies related to XDR for these corporations who’re using XDR approaches.
After which later, final yr within the fall, I executed one other analysis research, this one a bit extra broadly how a lot help there was for the XDR motion within the trade at giant, having a look at what individuals’s plans are and progress related to these plans as nicely, as they exit and start to put money into a XDR-type resolution units and in addition what their implementation methods appear like that had been related to that.
My purpose for that was to search for rising developments and to study from these organizations that had been principally first movers within the utilization of that know-how. After which most just lately within the winter this yr, we took a tough take a look at Pattern Micro Imaginative and prescient One particularly, and we talked to various clients that had been adopting and using the know-how and particularly checked out measuring the worth that these organizations had been reaching as they had been utilizing (Pattern Micro) Imaginative and prescient One XDR of their infrastructure.
So I will share knowledge and data from a number of items of this analysis from a bit bit from the spring analysis, a bit bit from the autumn. However I actually need to middle in on the worth that organizations have seen from Pattern Micro Imaginative and prescient One.
I am going to begin by simply validating among the ache factors that bubbled as much as the highest as we checked out what individuals had been combating within the safety operations middle. And if you happen to’re listening to this the session, then you definitely’re seemingly experiencing these challenges as nicely. After all our assault surfaces and in most, each firm have expanded fairly dramatically or modified so much, definitely within the final 12 months, along with the change for the distant employee, we have additionally seen a continued acceleration of cloud workloads, continued motion of the range of gadgets as organizations put money into IoT-type applied sciences.
And they also assault floor itself has been shifting and altering an incredible quantity, which in fact requires new approaches to safety controls and all these issues. On the identical time, in fact, we proceed to expertise rising complexity within the precise menace panorama itself. That is not a brand new development in fact, however definitely one which was exploited closely, as everyone knows over the past 12 months, as issues change so quickly, so did the kind of assaults and the threats that had been coming at us. A lot so, in very focused superior menace approach.
Together with that as a result of we have deployed so many various safety controls. We proceed to develop extra silos of safety knowledge. And I really feel like I have been saying that now for a number of years, as a result of it is really been the case, as we implement increasingly more controls, we’ve got extra safety knowledge in our infrastructure, however no scarcity of telemetry for the safety operations groups to evaluation and analyze and examine with, but it surely’s been very overwhelming quantities of that knowledge that is emerged as such.
After all, the cybersecurity abilities problem nonetheless plagues us all. And a few of us try to repair that by hiring a managed companies to come back in and complement our sources. Others of us have been simply aggressively recruiting, however we’re all caught in need of the type of sources that we’d like, which makes it a giant drawback due to the quantity of alerts that every one these safety controls are sending our approach, and most organizations are struggling to form of get via these, as a part of their day by day operational course of.
So, as we speak to organizations and we ask them, “what are the best instruments they have been utilizing for menace detection and response” SIEM, no shock, bubbled to the highest. Folks felt like for the instruments of their toolbox SIEM was the most effective that they’ve as of immediately. However on the identical time individuals had been very upfront that they had been various points that had been so related to the usage of the SIEM and 57% of organizations stated, “sure, my SIEM is an efficient software, however I battle with loads of issues concerned in it.” A lot of these challenges needed to do with the noisiness of the SIEM itself. Many complained concerning the quantity of specialised sources that had been required to function it in that their extra junior employees had some difficulties using or getting worth out of the SIEM, and a really giant proportion of individuals additionally complained about the price of their SIEM as they ingested increasingly more knowledge, as nicely. 58% stated that they might see room for enchancment within the knowledge ingest course of and organizations stated that they proceed to take a position each individuals time and know-how in constructing the info ingest course of as new safety controls and issues befell in that surroundings alongside the way in which, after which integrating with the remainder of their infrastructure, as nicely, was an ongoing value and the problem for many organizations.
Thus, over 90% of the individuals we surveyed had been very fascinated with what XDR may do and, as such, have put aside price range to exit and try XDR, doubtlessly put money into it as a complement to their SIEM. As nicely, many individuals additionally stated that they’d need to exchange their SIEM as a part of the method over time. So after we checked out what the true advantages had been that had been related to XDR we noticed that these people who had been using an XDR strategy of their group stated they’d half, as many profitable assaults within the group.
So fairly dramatic efficacy outcomes. However for these people who had been significantly investing right here, 60% stated that these assaults had been much less more likely to repropagate once more, which is nice, which signifies that individuals had been getting again to root trigger and shutting down these assaults for the lengthy haul. After which the third profit is 2.2 occasions specifically, had been capable of detect a compromise in only some days or much less versus very lengthy dwell occasions that had been in existence for these individuals who weren’t using an XDR strategy of their group.
After we checked out quantifying the precise variety of sources, these people who had been utilizing an automatic XDR surroundings, individuals stated that, eight full-time equal individuals can be wanted to exchange the automation that they’ve in place with XDR and that is in fact, throughout all of the elements, so that features the info evaluation, knowledge correlation, the investigation course of, the automated response course of. We took a really broad take a look at the individuals necessities that had been related to us. So fairly dramatic, advantages there.
So now let’s get again to Pattern Micro Imaginative and prescient One particularly. So this winter, we took a tough take a look at (Pattern Micro) Imaginative and prescient One, and, we seemed on the guided investigations, processed, the contextually conscious response, actions that had been there. We seemed on the visualization course of throughout endpoint server cloud workloads specifically, the MITRE assault framework mapping, after which the related documentation that comes together with it, we seemed on the communication and the visualization that was related to assaults because it communicated with command and management, and to suss out lateral motion within the surroundings and we additionally took a take a look at, from an integration perspective, the SIEM and SOAR integrations as nicely.
And to do this we talked particularly to various Pattern Micro clients, and we checked out three areas of worth. So we name these the financial advantages. The primary is across the safety effectiveness. And so we seemed on the form of common efficacy of the answer by way of elevated safety posture generally and all the clients that we spoke with stated that they felt that their organizations had been in, had lowered the chance of safety assaults and threats, each from having higher visibility to what’s occurring of their surroundings, but in addition from a time-to-detect, standpoint as nicely as a result of individuals may see issues occurring sooner, and cease assaults in course of, that we noticed higher detection.
So each increased ranges of detection and decrease or a discount in meantime to detect as nicely. And fascinating. I added a, only a quote in right here and it stated, “the discount in complexity of the method.” So there’s, there is a complexity ingredient as nicely, which interprets into human triggered errors, which I assumed that was fascinating. It is not really a topic we have dug into a lot in our core analysis however as a result of there have been much less human errors concerned within the investigation course of that folks felt that they’d a greater or quicker detection and remediation time using extra of the automated capabilities.
And we’ll really discover that in a bit bit as a result of we’re fortunate sufficient to have a visitor with us who was a part of that dialog.
When it comes to enterprise enablement and, suppose on this case, the enterprise operations, so, XDR helps eradicate the numerous silos of knowledge that we make the most of within the regular safety operations course of to research and examine assaults.
It helped us streamline the operations course of as nicely, as a result of now there’s much less ingest processing of all that knowledge and synchronization processing that is related to that da, as nicely. After which, individuals translated that into form of decrease danger total, which was, and that comes particularly from individuals’s skill to put money into internet new capabilities, so new features, new partnerships, and different issues, as a result of individuals felt like they’d a greater deal with on their safety posture, that they had been extra prepared to put money into internet new capabilities for the group, enabling the enterprise to maneuver ahead extra quickly. So by decreasing the chance, offering increased visibility, I am okay investing in internet new issues in a extra speedy tempo in order that there was only a terrific consequence from this as nicely.
After which on the fee discount facet of the home, various areas particularly tied to prices, one, round vendor and product consolidation. So that is taking a number of instruments, a number of analytics engines, rolling it into one widespread surroundings with (Pattern Micro) Imaginative and prescient One. Extra environment friendly triage station course of. In order that’s actually interprets into individuals time alongside the way in which, after which, low, fewer profitable assaults, means much less time spent, remediating in incident response actions as nicely. And that these translated into, very a lot into arduous prices as nicely.
And I, I introduced with me a mannequin that can form of assist reveal {that a} bit. So we took that prices translation knowledge, and we modeled it out right here and we noticed that there is a 63% financial savings from what individuals had been beforehand doing with a completely, cobbled collectively handbook, plus some degree of automated, capabilities at after they transfer to Pattern Micro (Pattern Micro) Imaginative and prescient One. In order that’s. A giant quantity, nearly two thirds financial savings there. After which, apparently for these organizations that engaged, Pattern Micro’s Managed XDR service as nicely, noticed extra financial savings as a part of the method.
And I do not know if that is intuitive for everyone or not, as a result of generally you concentrate on, “nicely, if I am partaking in a service supplier that may, really, translate into a better value.” However, however as we seemed carefully at this, we noticed that these individuals engaged. Within the managed XDR service from Pattern Micro, additionally they noticed an additional value discount. So right down to 79%, financial savings total, between all of the totally different traits that we tracked alongside the way in which.
Okay. So sufficient about my analysis, let’s get actual with the dialog and I am lucky sufficient to have with me immediately, Frank Bunton, 12-year veteran and vp and CISO from MedImpact Healthcare. Frank was form sufficient to share a few of his experiences with us at ESG, so we may put collectively a few of our financial impression. In order that’s type of what occurred right here.
Frank, I am going to begin out by letting you introduce your self a bit bit extra about MedImpact Healthcare, after which we’ll get into some dialog about Pattern Micro Imaginative and prescient One.
Frank Bunton Hello, my identify is Frank Bunton. I am Vice President and Chief Info Safety Officer at MedImpact Healthcare Company. I have been there fairly some time and I have been within the CISO function for 12 years now. MedImpact is a pharmacy profit administration group and as such, we take care of loads of, points in healthcare and the related companies that go round with that.
And, it is a busy world in healthcare immediately.
Dave Boy is it ever? Wow, healthcare is among the industries that I concentrate on as nicely in my observe. And, it is wonderful to see one how weak varied healthcare organizations are, however simply what a goal healthcare is true now for the adversary.
So nice, Frank, so let’s begin with a very fundamental query. So in your function because the CISO of the organizations, what are among the targets particularly by way of adopting XDR and the Pattern Micro Imaginative and prescient One platform.
Frank by way of targets, my group now gives companies for each MedImpact and its subsidiaries. This has expanded our imaginative and prescient, so to talk, and has created issues. The first of which is integration of distant safety occasions right into a single pane of glass. The XDR software and the (Pattern Micro) Imaginative and prescient One endpoint administration software assisted us with this by permitting that enlargement to happen seamlessly inside our surroundings.
Dave So, nice. So are you able to simply develop barely on among the, like, what had been the ache factors that triggered you to interact on this, in this?
Frank The fundamentals ache level was the truth that we had endpoints. We had plenty of them. We didn’t have endpoint administration system. And after we first introduced Pattern Micro in, they solved the issue of the Monday morning blues, which is chasing malware down the community and shedding that race.
So as soon as we noticed that, because the product grew into each (Pattern Micro) Apex One™ after which into the (Pattern Micro) Imaginative and prescient One which now exists, because it expanded, we had been capable of make the most of these options, together with the XDR function. And this allowed us to principally eradicate these kinds of issues. And within the occasion that you just do get an issue that that you must evaluation, the XDR principally takes that, provides you quicker detection, quicker response and eliminates the packet captures or trying round via DNS, et. cetera, and turns that into one thing you possibly can handle in a given period of time, a brief time frame and improves your total responsiveness to the enterprise.
Dave That is nice. Frank. So, I assume that you just obtained time again to your analyst group. Now you are capable of redeploy these analysts to do different issues.
Frank And that was required, proper? As a result of with all the brand new subsidiaries, that activity is daunting. Let me let you know, you run one firm, attempt operating a dozen, it is not simple.
Dave Hmm, I am going to wager. Hey, so what do you suppose is totally different about, the Pattern Micro XDR strategy than among the different approaches you’ve got seen within the market?
Frank The XDR software is very built-in with not solely our present surroundings, however with the environments that we’ve got deployed main as much as the place we are actually and it gives very fast response.
And it gives a extra complete overview of our infrastructure and our community interface, our firewalls, we are able to see a lot data that has been gathered with reference to any kind of incident that we reply to, that we are able to, , nearly instantly make a deduction as to what’s gone on the place’s the issue? And we’re capable of see again to the supply of the issue and clear up it. And that is crucial on this enterprise as a result of they’re simply as a lot time to fiddle.
Dave That is nice. And so I am going to, I am going to take from that, that you just consider that Pattern is doing simply essentially a greater job on placing the info collectively and delivering it to you in a approach the place you possibly can perceive what’s occurring.
Frank Right. It is principally the power to take, if you happen to work with networks, that knowledge’s fairly primitive, proper? And it takes particular individuals to principally be capable of break it down. Their merchandise try this for you and permits your community engineers to do networking, it permits your safety engineers to concentrate on the issue and remediate the difficulty, proper? And that is crucial. It is simply vital to have that.
Dave Yeah, I used to be nonetheless going to ask you about that. However you’d stated a few occasions in our earlier conversations, that that was a particular a part of why you get pleasure from working with Pattern and the answer. There’s one thing particular about Pattern as a accomplice. Are you able to develop on that?
Frank I went to one in all their larger conferences in Vancouver a number of years again. And Eva Chen offered there and I used to be simply astonished at among the insights she has to the client. As to how one can handle the client, how one can be sure that the client will get the service and the eye they want. And that has been handed right down to her, her subordinates, , her employees. After which that has gone all the way in which right down to the help personnel at Pattern. And the help personnel, they’re the most effective I’ve ever seen, the most effective I’ve ever seen. We’re by no means left hanging with these guys. So they’re only a nice accomplice. Want I had much more like them, I may some, I’ll inform ya.
Dave That is incredible. Frank, thanks a lot for being candid with us about each your experiences with Pattern Micro, who, seems like a terrific accomplice, and particularly concerning the impression of (Pattern Micro) Imaginative and prescient One in your group. I am going to sit up for chatting extra as you proceed your journey and studying extra about your experiences alongside the way in which.
Frank Sounds good, Dave. All the time good speaking to you.
Dave Thanks so very a lot. Alright everybody, that concludes the dialog, not less than for immediately. There’s extra data out there from Pattern Micro on the assorted analysis matters that we coated right here immediately. So if you happen to’re searching for extra data, attain out to Pattern Micro.
Eric Shulze Good day everybody and welcome to this session. Pattern Micro Imaginative and prescient One accommodates various totally different layers that every add worth to the general menace detection and response story. Let’s check out what every particular person layer contributes to this, the general image, to assist full the ballot.
First the endpoint. Most assaults finally contain the consumer’s gadgets. Both the consumer clicked on one thing or the endpoint obtained compromised by way of a drive-by obtain, et cetera. However finally the query you need to have the ability to reply is what occurred on that endpoint and the way did it. However you even have endpoints which might be unmanaged, you could’t set up an agent on possibly their legacy.
Possibly they are a third-party contractor that has to plug into your community that you do not personal and management, or possibly you’ve got IoT or OT gadgets you could’t set up the agent as a result of it might put them out of a vendor compliance. Finally you want visibility into how the attacker is shifting throughout the group, and is there issues like CNC communication or knowledge exfiltration.
You want to have the ability to see precisely what is going on on the community. And finally if issues are being stolen, they must be stolen over a community join. E mail is one other key worth layer or a number of layer that gives loads of worth, particularly as a result of e mail is the primary assault vector.
One key query is who else acquired this e mail? Did it go to everybody within the group or simply this one particular govt? Are there compromised accounts sending inner emails? Did somebody, did an attacker get entry to 1 account after which use that as a trusted supply to unfold the malware internally?
After which lastly, cloud and workload safety, which is a business-critical functions, which finally is the place most organizations have their gold saved. You want to have the ability to correlate the info for extra than simply EDR and simply from the servers, as a result of we’ve got issues like containers and serverless that do not have the persistence {that a} conventional VM or workload would have.
And it’s a must to have visibility throughout these to finish the puzzle fully. Now let’s check out what this seems like from the demo perspective within the console. So if we take a look at an endpoint instance earlier than we had EDR, the place we simply had detection, or the prevention layer, right here we are able to see the Pattern Micro dashboard and we are able to see that we’ve got a detection for a particular file. On this case, the PDF that was masquerading as a hyperlink file.
Now this detection exhibits, you possibly can see what consumer, what system, however you actually cannot see rather more past from that set of knowledge alone. Now let’s check out what this seems like after we add an EDR knowledge. So gathering all of the telemetry from the endpoint, just like the community connections, the method, telemetry, et cetera.
And all of a sudden this image turns into much more full. We see the unique occasion, which was that detection, however now we see it additionally had some unusual PowerShell parameters and in addition had a hardly ever entry net area. So now we are able to see that the puzzle is beginning to come collectively that whereas sure, there was a file that was detected, it additionally was utilizing PowerShell to speak with some uncommon and unseen domains.
Effectively, let’s return and add some extra layers now. Let’s add e mail, the community, the cloud workload visibility, and all of a sudden now the image really turns into full. We see the attainable spearphishing hyperlink that got here in at the beginning. We will see the topic line for it and see who all acquired it. However then we even have all the info that we noticed earlier than.
So we’ve got that detection occasion the place it was clicked on and executed. Now we have the PowerShell instructions that had been executed, after which we’ve got the area and the community visitors that is been enriched by the community sensor, to have the ability to see extra particulars about it, together with extra IPS, et cetera.
So finally what occurred is by including every of those new layers, we added extra correlation alternative, we added quicker detection due to all these totally different steps, and finally we had the broadest visibility throughout all of the totally different ways and methods that had been used on this particular instance assault to see precisely what occurred. However every layer whereas it helps with the detection story, finally helps with the response story as nicely, as a result of clearly the “R” in XDR is the “response”.
So if we return to our puzzle and we take a look at the totally different layers, once more, the endpoint, for instance, contributes distant shell, having the ability to interrogate the endpoint and run instructions on it and pull extra data. You may acquire the file from the endpoint for deeper evaluation via a malware automation instruments or sandboxing applied sciences.
Endpoints isolation, to get that endpoint off the surroundings, or off the community, whilst you’re investigating it on.
E mail, you’ve got the power to quarantine and delete an e mail block, the sender in order that you aren’t getting e mail from that malicious consumer anymore.
On the community layer, we are able to block hashes. We will block IP addresses and domains. After which on the cloud workloads, we are able to have the capabilities like distant shell and gathering file with out impacting the income producing functions.
If we return to our demo console, right here, you possibly can see the incident view, and this was launched a few month in the past, so if this seems new to a few of you, to our present clients, this did come out a few month in the past. And what this does is that this takes a number of workbenches and correlates them one degree increased into an incident. So right here you possibly can see all of the methods and ways, you possibly can see all the totally different workbench IDs which might be related which have all been correlated into this one bigger single assault.
And if we go to the highest, we are able to click on on totally different tabs to see the incident timeline. So we are able to see every particular person occasion. We will see the impression scope. So what methods servers, customers had been all concerned. After which we are able to additionally see all of the highlighted objects right here. And if you have not seen this display screen earlier than, it might appear like there’s loads of textual content on right here, loads of random textual content, however really, if you happen to look shut, that’s an encoded PowerShell command being run. So really seeing that, to me, is definitely one thing that I’ll need to drill down additional into. Trigger clearly, , whereas not essentially malicious in coding issues in PowerShell, is one thing that undoubtedly needs to be checked out a bit nearer when it has this different data round it. And on this case, the incident, designation by the platform.
However if you happen to scroll down on this listing, you possibly can see it is not simply course of knowledge. We additionally see file paths. We see IP is a registry entries, multi function view. So if we return to the alert tab subsequent, and we really drill down right into a workbench, now we are able to see that on the workbench particularly, this one for credential dumping, we’ve got response actions that modify based mostly on what we clicked on.
So if we proper click on on the creeper endpoint, for instance, we are going to see we’ve got the power to do a distant shell. If we proper click on on the wrench.exe, we are able to acquire that file. If we proper click on on a URL or an IP on this case, we’ve got the power so as to add it to this suspicious objects lists, the place it will probably then be blocked or logged going ahead.
Now we are able to additionally return and take a look at one other workbench. On this case, we’ll take a look at the one labeled attainable APT assault. This one accommodates extra objects on this case; e mail and community knowledge. If we proper click on on the e-mail, we’ve got the power to quarantine the message or delete it.
If we proper click on on the URL we’ve got the power so as to add it to the block listing. After which after we click on on one other endpoint, we’ve got the power to isolate it. So what you possibly can see right here is, relying on what kind of merchandise you are interacting with or what node you are interacting with, we’ve got a contextually conscious menu that allows you to take particular response actions based mostly on what precisely you are clicking on.
And finally we all know clients want extra than simply response actions. They want the power to trace the standing of those incidents. So we help that with a Easy flagging system that’s absolutely API built-in, in addition to a notes functionality such as you see right here. So I can add notes as I am handing this off to a different analyst, this may also be fully interacted with by way of your ticketing system. So if you wish to push a observe into (Pattern Micro) Imaginative and prescient One by way of API, you possibly can. And if you wish to pull that observe out and sync it together with your ticketing system, you possibly can by way of API immediately.
And with that, I hope you’ve got seen that every layer provides extra detection, in addition to response capabilities, to finally aid you see extra and reply quicker.
And with that, I would prefer to return it again to our hosts.
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