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I spent so much time with developers in the past couple of weeks. And, uh, yeah, if any of them are listening out there and you have not heard about Nord stellar, it's really, really cool to me. So, I mean, I never had to deal with like specifically like the it, uh, you know, uh, C level manager type stuff for this, but I worked closely with those departments doing digital marketing and the people who are heading up these exact things and what they were going through constantly. Um, Nord Stellar is a threat exposure management platform. The idea is that it detects cyber threats targeting your company and then helps you fix them, solve them, take control of them before they escalate. Everybody knows once they escalate, that's when they not only become bigger problems, but a lot more expensive to figure out. So it combines four core solutions into one singular platform. There's data breach monitoring, dark web monitoring, attack surface management, and cyber squatting protection. So it'll bundle all of those together. And you can also add on brand protection. which will help identify impersonation attempts across web, social media, app stores, and others. This one, I think, is like a sleeper hit for this because I've seen some people get fooled from like fake websites that look super real. Recently, we just had Nanoleaf sending out mass emails to everyone saying, hey, don't be fooled. There's like a fake site that looks just like Nanoleaf, but it's not. So don't buy from them. Nordstellar protects against those exact things. And they're getting increasingly common and scary for consumers. And you don't want that to hurt your brand. So for anyone, those C-level managers, anyone's chief security information officers, reduce incident response costs, faster detection, prioritization. Real-time visibility. You can quantify risk and align your security with your business goals. Protect executives and brand reputation from impersonation threats on the dark and surface web. So both levels that you may not be actively monitoring. So for all of those and more, you have to check out Nordstellar. There's a reason that people are turning this. You are being proactive and getting ahead of these major issues. before they become major issues. So go ahead. You can get an exclusive offer by unlocking 10% discount on Nordstellar with the coupon code smart home insider 10, all uppercase smart home insider 10. Just mention it to Nordstellar.