 Welcome to vlog Thursday From my car with my wife. We're parked. I'm not driving. It's cool Just short vlog Thursday. I'm actually sitting here in Detroit in front of me is the Defunct Fisher body plant. I just have too many things happening to be at my office even tonight tomorrow We have a few minutes because I had to be in Detroit to pick up money for a job which then means I then had to go to Get that check deposited now. I have a few minutes before the next event I have to go to a networking event that she's going to go to with me. So I Was uh, I said, you know, let's find a shady abandoned area of Detroit to park. What do you think honey? You spare no expense when it comes to me spare no expense man So we're sitting in front of one of this is on the outskirts of Detroit in front of a band and building. We are Trying not to get shot. Oh, it's fine here It's fine here. It's actually we're right next to one of my clients buildings where we do We've done a lot of infrastructure work. They're in the manufacturing sector as well It's just weird because there's developments behind us that are actually working and operational But everything in front of us is all Abandoned anyways, it's been this has been a really rough week but that's because so many things are happening that required me to Actually be in meetings, which normally is a little bit more painful the only meetings that much I'm more of an action person, but the meetings instead were Quite good and ended up being. Oh, you know very worthwhile and Unfortunately, I can't disclose any of the details unless we pull it all off But basically I was meeting with a company that has 40 locations and they're a global Company that has like about 20,000 people and we did some network consulting and engineering at a very high level So it's not something that I'm going to be doing directly There's teams of people to pull some of these projects off But I got to consult at a very high level, which is a lot of fun and making this project And they were really brilliant people so I had a fun time in the room with them Putting it all together sharing ideas throwing out throwing things out there for them. So that was a lot of fun Now I did read I've recorded it actually full of videos. I didn't like any of them So they didn't get published in the last week since the how they got hacked video Matter of fact, the studio is still set up with the microphones in that I recorded another video today And then my phone wouldn't stop ringing. I never got to it. It's been project project project project and Which isn't bad thing. I mean these are all very well-paying projects. So they Definitely required attention Organization and passed off as many as I can to my staff But some of them like it's a required my presence I have to even be on say that a job because timetables were moved up and no expenses were spared To move up timetables hence me picking up a check out of To out of expediency. I like that. They write on the check is called mobilization. That means get you asked to work We're gonna pay you whatever it takes. So basically one of the projects the timetables got completely shifted on us Because of a there's a calamity of events that do this where the people funding the project says well We're gonna turn the tap on how many more people to get it done sooner and We gave them numbers and they said, okay, you can go get a check. So from meeting yesterday is Large check today the kind you have to go and sign and pick up in person to agree that you'll make these projects happen And then me mobilizing all the people involved to make this project happen It's become it's there's a lot at stake because it's because scale and scope of things But you know you make it happen, but that means it's hard to take time to make videos and all that I Did see but I did not watch I noticed when I slow up into YouTube Chris over at crossock solutions releases ultimate unify hosting video, which is funny that in its complete coincidence I will maybe tweet out the URL later But we built a we're working on it's been a project So I did ansible screen connect and I've tweeted about that I haven't done a video on it, but I will to auto deploy screen connect and we're not working on an entire ansible script That will automatically grab the latest unify controller deploy it and install let's encrypt certificate all in one Flow so it's we think you did your work. We deployed it using DNS with the ACME cert today so Yeah, I have other people working on a project, but that's gonna be Another video because we have some more thoughts around making that happen at a very automated fashion to Build a service around it on top of that and this is dovetailing back into that meeting I had the other day me and other Group of friends We were really thinking about getting into some more open-source cyber security building a platform for some of that So this is they're all kind of related one It's security related to it's a lot of automation going in there So it's gonna be a whole lot of fun doing this Hello from I see Jordan and hey from Tantrum 06 to I try to be quick because the they pop up and go away really fast on the phone It's a little I know I can hit the thing. There we go awesome From London awesome. I mean this is part of the reason I did this now because I know if I wait Till I won't be home till probably 11 30 at night or so and I have an early morning meeting At 7 a.m. So if I did at night one, I'll be exhausted to I know all my UK friends will be in bed Don't be sleeping so I don't get to see as many of you the California people are cool with it because they're all off work They're like hey cool, you know midnight our time. They're at 7 8 o'clock their time something like that time zones are hard So Australia, I don't know what time it is in Australia. I just know it's hot there That's the only thing I really know about hot and there's a lot of things that want to kill you in Australia Spiders and things like that thing in Australia tries to kill you everything else really does it kill you I Have an entire how we quote jobs video So if you search my channel for that you'll see how we do proposals I talked about how we do quotes Proposals are a little bit different than quotes, but they're kind of the same thing When this project's done because of the size of the project I will be doing it because well, I we talked about how we bid the Revda fun project This is four times maybe five times bigger than that. So yeah, that's Really cool. Can I do a video on how wire guard works or small business? It doesn't it's in beta I wouldn't I'm not running it in production wire guards cool, but I'm not running it in production yet open VPN is so good Email encryption we're using Zix mail for some of the clients. There's another one that eludes me I'm not the one who sets a lot it up, but so that's it. What kind of car is this? Cyan TC. Yeah, she knows I used to be a car person now. I'm a guy Yeah, I used to be her car now. I'm just someone who puts the key in and make sure it goes and make sure it's yes I don't care anymore. I used to care Yeah, it's a little two-door sport coop. So I Got a north for that. Hi from Chile Yes, I am on key based is linked from my website. So if you go to lawrensystems.com you can find my key base profile That's how I generally want encryption Sent to me like if you I have my PGP signature on there So if you had to send me a PGP encoded message, there's a way you can do it on key base works really well for that So I'm gonna do a video on key base because I use it more and more and it's it's definitely important part of dinner So more pfSense videos definitely coming on that I've got one for outbound routing and then we just well I didn't do it one of my staff did Steve and maybe the person who we did it for it's a We did an outbound routing from hell video. So that's gonna be fun It was a multi-site multi VPN lots of security Because of the way things need to be set up for this particular client, but also required a ton of static routes To get everything where it needs to be with a lot of rules and things like that So it's kind of fun. I might tweet out that he actually said I could tweet out the map So I will love the diagram of what it looks like it doesn't have any public IP as a matter of fact It's VPNing across the metro network that way There's never a chance that across the metro network if you're not sure what the metro network is That's where it's like MPLS and that's where your Provider such as like a large ISP will give you private IP range across their network Like tunnel your sites together and normally that's fine But they want an extra layer of encryption in case they can't trust the MPLS provider And there's been cases where that's an issue and it's not that hard to VPN it But it does require a lot of special routing to especially the part of particular scenario that they needed. So that was really cool Just north of Flint. Oh cool The land of window Jamaica welcome Jamaica, Norway. I got someone from everywhere here. That's awesome Lots of people, but uh, yeah, we're so time is it I can't see the time on this 510 510 so we got to get going in just a few more minutes. I'm not going to try and drive and vlog So I won't be able to really read these and properly. Oh my god. You can barely drive as is Yeah, my driving can be a bit scary But I was actually thinking about this yeah, so oh, thank you. Thank you for the cup I was people are seeing nice things about me. Well, it's cuz they've never seen you drive. They've never seen me drive But uh, no, I you know, I'm thinking I will do some videos. I was thinking about this because it's getting warmer It's not quite it stays like first day of spring or yesterday was or something so I may do some videos from Detroit proper and Why not I you know come down here. I have some clients down here Maybe I could do it from some other buildings or something like that something different motorcycles down here Ride the motorcycles down here park in front of some abandoned buildings like there's someone parked down the street They're no idea why I have no idea. There's two maybe they're vlogging Oh man, look at these people stepping up on us over here Look at these geese back here, I don't think they're from around here. I don't think they're from around here to the Canadian Just do two geese just walking down the street towards us. Well Canada's not far look like a couple of Canadians there I don't know man. Oh Yeah, I should oh they said you should drive an off-log. You want to do that you want to head towards there I guess We can do that. Yeah, just go straight down right straight down Woodward That's Woodward right there at the flashing light. That's Woodward at the flashing light You're just repeating what I'm saying. You're not really even looking. I'm not really looking at all All right, I don't know if that's Woodward. We'll switch We'll switch off vlog for a little bit In that place cool back there. That's the Fisher plant. That's the old one. That's not the one It's in use anymore. That's the dead place Oh No, I already turned blue cheese off. I do wear safety belts. That's required of me here Cardo's and stop beeping if you do that's a okay. Yeah, I also I don't want to hear the car beep Hi, Virginia. Burn out. Yeah, do a burnout in this car. No, I See someone this is I drive past her all the time. Oh, yeah, check out these geese Are you doing? Oh look they're coming at us. They think we got food. That's great Ha ha ha ha Oh, they're talking back. They're talking back This is a scion TC All right, we're on our way to our networking event. Yeah bubble dinner So they've been we're going to and this is what my videos about that I recorded today, but it's not published so Yeah, those are the last remaining Fisher employees we'll go with that Ha ha ha ha matter of fact hang a right here and Really, I'm gonna there's a piece of history. We're out to pass by in Detroit. There's a lot of history over here That's falling apart. I can't really show that. Well, those are some that's an abandoned buildings, but I'm gonna show you the original Place, this is the first Henry Ford plant where things were built Packard plant the no the paquette. This is not Packard. This is the paquette plant. You guys can look this so Yeah, fish your bodies were great. This is So just go ahead and make a left Don't roll the window down so it's look clear Right here. This is the historic Ford paquette plant and they do tours and there's some Model T's in there It's actually pretty cool Yeah, you get a tour of Detroit right here. I mean, I want to do a tour Detroit video There's so much cool stuff here. One of my friends is in town Unfortunately, we didn't he's only in town for a day on another project But we're meeting up in the morning But I told him I said if he gets an extra day to come in town, I'll show him around There's a lot of there's just so much neat stuff here in Detroit There's a lot of history in the manufacturing and things like that and it's really it's also kind of interesting because we're right here You see all this abandon this one of the most beautiful art deco buildings Ever is right up here and I can't really take you through a tour of inside of it But I've actually posted some photos photos before we have a handful of clients in that building and it's absolutely amazing Look up the Fisher building. It's just absolutely beautiful Yeah, there was a grand tour on Amazon around. Yeah The roads suck here. So I'm trying to do stabilization. But yeah, Eastern market It's only a couple there. Yeah, look up Eastern market. That is another amazing brilliant place to go I'm trying I know what is another we can do this is well, welcome to driving Yeah, she drives a Jeep it's like for off-roading so yeah a glass of whiskey No, I'm on my way to have whiskey, but if I have it in the car that breaks a law Yeah, maybe I'll you know what maybe I'll do that sometime I don't mind posting whatever on my personal channel and I'll just reference it from here I don't know that a tour of Detroit belongs in the On the Lawrence system channel, but I have no problem Doing any of it on my personal channel posting some of that. Oh, you're lucky. You can do it. Yeah, I've looked There's the I'm in the car anyways. Oh the infamous white castles if you haven't had a white castle right there, man White castles sliders the originals. They're the best. They're the best 2 a.m. Drunken food Yeah, it's the best 2 a.m. Food you can ever get so definitely awesome Do you install camera brands inside you make me yes, we actually do a Lot of hick vision that's a really popular brand and we've done access we've done a few others We the thing is like access and some of the Sony cameras are nice, but wow I mean, they're expensive, but we have some high-end clients. We're doing All that and not illegal in the flask. No in, Michigan's it's illegal in the flask. Sorry. Yeah, so What about the US banning hip vision they only banned hip vision for government contract work for what we're doing it doesn't matter So I don't care. I whatever. I don't know if there's politics at play Do I trust any of those companies? No, they're cameras with Questionable firmware in them. So no, I don't have any trust of any of these devices Doesn't matter which one they are that all have these, you know one-off kind of strange firmware issues Yeah, so we don't mind using Hick vision then the same thing exact vision is a popular camera system we use but comes down to pricing so People people ask you like what do you want to use instead of unify? I'm like, oh the exact vision system We use a lot of that and then they find out the price and they're like it's that much I'm like, yeah annually and it's roughly a hundred and thirty dollars per camera per year recurring license fees I Think is what it goes for so if you and we have a client that's got like 300 cameras And they're like they pay that much a year. I'm like every year. This is very different Unify is great because they don't have those license fees. So that makes a huge difference How do I have all the knowledge about networking and what do I think of die who they who seem okay? I know I don't really have much opinion. They're like any of the other generic he ones out there I've seen a few people say they like them. They work That's fine like the car. They're like the car is actually die who networking I've been studying and network engineering since there before there was network engineering and the scale and scope that there is now This is what I've been doing for my entire life. I didn't go to school I dropped out of school essentially and got into networking and technology. You dropped out of college You didn't drop out of school and it is yours. You graduated. No, not ice-cold, though I don't have a diploma You told me you did I they gave me the thing for the SAT thing or not the SAT thing But I never went to college. I know but I technically I have a diploma. I never acquired it So it's it says you're splitting ears Why didn't attend I didn't have enough grades to do it. They did it so they could use my meep score. I Didn't have enough credits to pass But I have they said I passed like I didn't have to go there no more Yeah Yeah, anyways Someone likes to split hairs splitting hairs. Oh now we are passing one of the Detroit Academy for something That's not it. I thought I'm looking for the Detroit library. There's a really big Detroit library over here coming up Big cemetery It's warm in here. Oh Is it oh, it's gone that place that have the really cool the egg rolls There's an egg roll place up here. That was pretty amazing. Oh now we're by look up the Boston Edison district if we're continuing our tour Boston Edison District Detroit. We're passing right by it. It's beautiful But it we're passing by it so fast. It's hard to hard to really see all the stuff here huge Yeah, that light wasn't red We're gonna see if we're gonna get pulled over now. Well, you want just take some more time to look at things We might get pulled over wouldn't that be an exciting vlog? Well as the officer, what do you think? I Yes, put all the Hick vision on separate networks that is absolutely true And this is one of the ways we do this is we put it all on separate networks that churches There we go, there's one of the big churches when you set these up we set up v-lands and everything else for this This is we don't put the cameras on the same network. They're completely separated from everything else That's just the standard practice I've been wanting to get to it and it's this would be an example and for those of you joining now I talked about earlier when we were doing the consulting with this large company. They have network segmentation But we are actually splitting their network up a bit more dividing it up And it comes down to the way we wanted to do the monitoring the way you do heavier monitoring on the server V-lands, but it took some restructuring again, and these are some of those You know, I want to make sure I get that knowledge shared with a lot of you because this is like the modern way to design it The tooling we used to design it like in terms of what software was implemented there I Can't tell you I can do it in a funny way I can't tell you the name of the client but we can talk about the software because if I tell you the name of Can't I can't talk about the software Those are important little aspects. That's why it's not really an NDA as much as that is a challenge I have about doing some of these videos as people say hey Why you can't why can't you do a video like this like that? I'm like it's a lot of proprietary information and these companies very specifically like I don't have authorization To do a video for a couple places we did installs They absolutely don't want people to know what devices were installed and the reason why is a very genuine security reason That genuine security reason is let's say, you know a company and you know their Wi-Fi system because Tom installed it You know exactly what Wi-Fi system they're using is well, then you find out there's a zero-day and you're like hey Wait, there's a zero-day on maybe they didn't patch in a time. Don't worry. I will but