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Through two extensions developed by Uptycs ( kubequery and cloudquery), osquery’s concept of structured security analytics has been extended to support Kubernetes and cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure. ![]() The lightweight agent normalizes data into readily queried sql tables, making it easy to ask questions of your assets, track compliance configurations, detect anomalies or malicious signatures, and understand in-depth the real-time state of your security posture. To achieve that foundation of deep visibility, teams are using the osquery universe to support a strong analytics-centric security program.įor the unfamiliar, osquery is an efficient, scalable agent that collects a vast amount of telemetry from macOS, Linux, Windows, and container workloads. In this stage you will look to get rich visibility into your assets, giving you that clear foundation to perform best practices like proactively hardening your assets or detecting anomalies across your environment. The first technical step for any team is to understand your environment and the assets you are protecting. So, how are they making cloud native security at scale happen? It all starts with good people and processes, of course. Osquery: The Differentiator for FinTech Security Teams Let’s break down why security teams are turning to osquery as a key security solution. In this blog we’re going to dig into what’s become a hidden super-power for FinTech security teams and some real-world examples of how they’re using it. To protect their IT ecosystem, security teams not only implement traditional security controls for on-prem solutions, but they’re also focused on new threats looming in their cloud native infrastructure. ![]() The notable shift to cloud native environments has spurred these security teams towards solutions that provide reliable, flexible, and in-depth coverage as they scale up. He graduated from Princeton with an AB in Public and International Affairs, focusing on policy around privacy and information security.įinTech security teams are tasked with a big job: defending the ever-evolving attack surface that comes from using technology as a differentiator in the world of investment and consumer banking, cryptocurrency, and more… all while remaining compliant with multiple federal and state regulations.įinTech organizations are always looking to innovate, and that carries over into their security teams as well. Prior to Uptycs, Jeremy spent two years at Deloitte helping clients architect, configure, and implement secure systems. Jeremy Colvin is a Technical Product Marketing Manager at Uptycs and enjoys learning the bits and bytes of what makes good security. You probably already figured that out though from my settings.īlackmagic's Free Davinci Resolve with whatever LUT's you want to use is getting pretty easy now. ![]() With that said, I have broken down and started using LUT's and the like in Postprocessing. Welcome to the AfterShot Pro downloads page, where you can browse, preview and download free and paid presets, plugins and camera profiles. Been using Cinelike for my color settings. Camera Profiles, Plugins and Presets for AfterShot Pro. What I have been using lately is 30 FPS max, +1+1+0 on the sharpness / contrast / saturation settings, 100 ISO with 60 FPS shutter speed, and for white balance I let the machine decide for me and then I loc it in under custom, or I use Sunny or Cloudy default settings. I haven't fully tested this out yet to find the best settings to get rid of it yet though. When I put the Polar Pro filters on, I get motion blur instead of flicker. I took some video of some rocks and I can see it flicker, but I think it due to high shutter and high ISO. Corel's Lightroom competitor AfterShot Pro offers adequate organizing and editing capabilities, but falls well short of the competition in usability, editing tools, and importing. I think it is still there in the higher resolutions, but since the pixels are smaller, it doesn't jump out at you as much. Well, I think I see your flicker issue with high detail settings.
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In the Basque country they are called "chipirons" Pedro Arregui prepares his squid live, seared on the grill and decorated with a ribbon of their ink, tempered by an onion reduction: they are crisp and their flavor balances the sweetness of the onion (particularly Spanish onion) and the slight bitterness of the ink. Simply clean them.īaby squid can be used like calamari and octopus: grilled, marinated, fried, sautéed or used in fritters or salads. They are small, so the whole squid can be eaten. The inner "shell" or cartilage is greatly reduced. Also known as the Humboldt or jumbo squid ( Dosidicus gigas ), it rises every night from the depths of the ocean for a few hours of frenzied feeding at the surface. ![]() 3 to 6 cm long, baby squid are oval, slightly flattened, with 8 short legs and 2 long tentacles. 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Lisa Ronald, western Montana associate conservation director with American Rivers, said the EPA has shown some interest in escalating its interest in site remediation - it recently committed to stepping up its sampling efforts - but would like the agency to demonstrate more urgency. “It’s just pulsing with nature and it’s a place of community connection and civic pride, so to be stripped of that by a four-mile swath of languishing industrial wasteland is just a shame,” Knudsen said. EPA has yet to tackle the problem despite compelling evidence that cleanup should start immediately.” Clark Fork Coalition Executive Director Karen Knudsen She notes that the confluence of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers, upstream of the Smurfit-Stone site, has a similar legacy of industrial pollution, but the removal of the Milltown Dam and remediation of the site has helped Missoula become “River City,” with a vibrant recreational economy. 5 on a list of 10 - will spotlight both the contamination risk and what western Montana communities have to gain by working to remediate the site. Knudsen said she’s hoping the Clark Fork’s inclusion on American Rivers’ endangered list - it’s No. We think our river and our communities can’t wait.” What else you need to know: EPA has yet to tackle the problem despite compelling evidence that cleanup should start immediately. ![]() “Every spring since the mill shut down in 2010, we’ve had to keep our fingers crossed that nature will take it easy with spring run-off and won’t throw too much at these flimsy berms,” Clark Fork Coalition Executive Director Karen Knudsen told Montana Free Press. The Clark Fork Coalition, which started in the mid-1980s amid concerns associated with the pulp mill, says the pairing of topography and carcinogenic chemicals result in a “catastrophe waiting to happen.” Environmental Protection Agency to clean up the contaminated material and remove the nearly four miles of unengineered berms holding back the river from its historic flood plain. More specifically, it would like the U.S. Those landfills, wastewater ponds and sludge heaps are dangerously close to western Montana’s largest-volume river and leach toxins into the groundwater, according to environmental nonprofit Clark Fork Coalition, which has long called for federal intervention. The pulp mill operated northwest of Missoula for more than 50 years before Smurfit-Stone declared bankruptcy in 2010 and walked away from the sprawling site, which includes hundreds of acres of unlined ponds that were used to store wastewater - some of it untreated - as well as landfills and sludge ponds. ![]() Regis and Thompson Falls on its journey to Lake Pend Oreille in the panhandle of Idaho. The river is the Clark Fork, which flows from the Continental Divide before running through Missoula, Alberton, St. National environmental nonprofit American Rivers has included an iconic western Montana river in its 2023 list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers, citing its proximity to the site of a former 1,000-acre pulp mill still rife with contaminants. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. ![]() Chambers's The King in Yellow, some of which had previously been borrowed from Ambrose Bierce. Where Machen mentions "strange shapes gathering fast amidst the reeds, beside the wash in the river," Lovecraft tells of "certain odd stories of things found floating in some of the swollen rivers." Price suggests that Machen's reference to accounts of people "who vanished strangely from the earth" prompted Lovecraft to imagine people being literally spirited off the Earth.Īs noted by critics like Price and Lin Carter, "The Whisperer in Darkness" also makes reference to names and concepts in Robert W. Lovecraft hints at "a hidden race of monstrous beings which lurked somewhere among the remoter hills". Price points out parallel passages in the two stories: Where Machen asks, "What if the obscure and horrible race of the hills still survived.?" Wilmarth remains behind to tell the tale, like Machen's Miss Lally. t is Akeley, not the Professor, who eventually disappears into the clutches of the elder race. Lovecraft splits the role of Machen's Professor Gregg between Professor Wilmarth and the scholarly recluse Akeley. He is lured by a curiously engraved black stone which seems a survival from an elder prehuman race now hidden in those mysterious hills. In both cases we have a professor, an antiquarian, following his avocational interests in what most would dismiss as superstition on a dangerous expedition into a strange region of ominous domed hills. "I would go so far as to make Lovecraft's tale essentially a rewriting, a new version of Machen's," Price writes. Price argues, is an acknowledgement of the debt Lovecraft's story owes to Machen's " The Novel of the Black Seal" (1895). Not alot see that.In "The Whisperer in Darkness", narrator Albert Wilmarth initially dismisses those who believe that nonhuman creatures inhabit the Vermont hills as "merely romanticists who insisted on trying to transfer to real life the fantastic lore of lurking 'little people' made popular by the magnificent horror-fiction of Arthur Machen." Pretty fookin' brilliant~ You know something. Wow! Don't play this on Halloween! I hear a wild boar hunter in here! with big teeth?!! Help! 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