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Yeah, Jeff would be a good. Good person for you to talk to for your. Your column also. So it's the technologizer himself, Harry McCracken here. Always a pleasure to have you on the show. And Fitz and his owner, Owen Thomas, from the San Francisco Business Times. Our show today, brought to you by. Whoa. This little box. I got it right here. This little thing. You might look at it and go, oh, yeah, sure, Leo. That's an external USB drive. No, no, no, no, no. This is a honeypot to a hacker, to a malicious insider. This looks like, I don't know, an SSH server. This looks like perhaps Windows XT server, SharePoint maybe. It can be almost anything you want. It could be a SCADA device, but it isn't. It's a honeypot that is designed to trap intruders. Thinxt canaries. That's what this is. So you could tell now because you can see the little canary on the front. The Thinx canary is a honey pot. You can deploy it in minutes. What's great is the people who've written this are pros. They have been teaching governments and countries and companies how to break into systems for decades. They know the mind of the Wiley hacker. Plus they're brilliant coders. They've created this super secure device that can look completely like anything to a hacker. They don't look vulnerable, they look valuable. The other thing I think scenary can do is create lure files, little trip wires. You can spread out as many as you want all over your network, even on the cloud. I have, you know, a wireguard, you know, description posted on my Google Drive. I have spreadsheets that say payroll information scattered on my OneDrive. If somebody accesses this Thinx Canary or tries to open one of those lor files, I immediately will get a notification. No false alerts, just a notification that lets me know I've got a problem, there's somebody inside the network. You choose a profile for your things Canary device. It's so easy to do, you might do it, change it every day if you want. I do do. It's so much fun right now. It's a NAS server, it's a synology nas. And by the way, it's not just kind of impersonating a NAS server. It's got the right Mac address, it's got the full DSM 7 login. It looks exactly like the real deal. A hacker cannot distinguish it and that's important. You choose a profile for your Thinks Canary device, you register it with the hosted console. You're going to get monitoring and notifications any way you want. Sms, email, you know, every supports everything, syslog, webhooks, get it through Slack, you get it on your discord server, you get a telegram, whatever you want. So then you set it up, you set up the notifications. Then you just sit back and you wait. An attacker who has gotten into your network and this is the problem. On average companies don't know there's somebody breached their network for 91 days, three months before they figure it out. Not if you've got a thing's canary. An attacker who's inside your network cannot resist. Malicious insiders, evil maids, they see that, they go payroll information. I gotta open that file. Oh, there's an SSH server that probably is the gateway to heaven. They make themselves known the minute they access your Thinks Canary or try to open those lure files. And then you got them. Now let me explain. Explain kind of how it works. If you're a big business with you should have at least one for every network segment. Might even want more scattered around your network. If you're a big bank or a casino back end, you might have hundreds. A small operation like ours, just a handful. But I'll give you an idea of the pricing. You can visit Canary Toolstwit that's the website. Canary Tools Twit 7,500 bucks a year gets you five things canaries. You also get your own hosted console. You get upgrades, you get, you get support, you get maintenance for that whole year. Oh, and if you use the code TWIT in the how did you hear about us? Box, you're also going to get 10% off the price. And not just for the first year, but for as long as you have your thinkscanary. And here's the really good news. If there's no risk involved, you can always return your Thinks canary with their 2 month money back guarantee for a full refund. 60 days for a full refund. I should tell you though, we've been doing ads. I've been talking about the thinkscanary for almost a decade now. During all those years that we've partnered with thinkscanary, the refund guarantee has never been claimed. Nobody's ever wanted to give one back. Because once you get these on your network, you say, how did I live without it? Visit Canary Tools Twit. Enter the code TWIT in the how did you hear about us? Box. Thank you Thinks Canary for the great job you do and for supporting this week in tech Canary Tools Twit Harry, what are you working on right now for Fast Company? Some of the things I really enjoy that you do are the history things because you've been around for a long time. Are you doing any more of those you work on?
