Sessions

Join your peers and Mimecast to kick-off day! Registration will open at this time as well.

Hear from CEO, Marc van Zadelhoff about Mimecast's bold evolution from email and collaboration security to human risk management, to the Intelligence Age - an era of security powered by precision-engineered AI, API-enabled platform technology that empowers humans as the strongest line of defense in today’s complex threat landscape. Join us to discover how Mimecast is leading the industry by transforming human risk into human strength, securing the future of work with a connected platform and innovative AI-driven insights.

Marc van Zadelhoff

CEO - Mimecast

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Step into the frontlines of cyber defense, where industry leaders and peers share real-world experiences battling today’s most sophisticated cyber threats. This interactive session will explore firsthand accounts of navigating complex security challenges, implementing innovative strategies, and leveraging Mimecast solutions to protect organizations.

• Practical approaches to addressing real-world cyber threats.
• Advanced use cases and tips for maximizing Mimecast solutions.
• Insights into fostering resilience and preparedness within organizations.

Beth Miller

Field CISO - Mimecast

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Maureen Holland

Manager, Assurance Services & US Privacy - AstraZeneca

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Youri Corsini

CSIRT Manager - Sanofi

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Erik Hart

Chief Information Security Officer - Cushman & Wakefield

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Lloyd Zygler

SVP/Chief Information Security Officer - OceanFirst Bank

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Human risk now drives the majority of cybersecurity breaches. Mimecast Chief Product & Technology Officer, Ranjan Singh, will highlight how Mimecast's platform integrates advanced AI, threat intelligence, and real-time interventions to proactively reduce risk across email, collaboration tools, and endpoints. Chief Product Officer, Rob Juncker, will join Ranjan on stage to demonstrate Mimecast’s innovative, holistic approach to human risk management, emphasizing Mimecast's leadership in securing organizations against evolving threats in 2025 and beyond.

Ranjan Singh

Chief Product & Technology Officer - Mimecast

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Rob Juncker

Chief Product Officer - Mimecast

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Many incident responses start in chaos, with analysts juggling multiple security tools and manual processes. This session takes you through a realistic attack scenario, with real-world insights from an enterprise cybersecurity practitioner and Mimecast customer, demonstrating how a targeted user threat unfolds across email security, SASE, and EDR tools—and how enterprises can transform fragmented alert fatigue into coordinated, automated response.

Key takeaways:

• Realistic attack scenario across email, SASE, and EDR platforms showing the real scope of modern threats.
• Manual vs. automated investigation - from copying URLs and hashes between tools to streamlined orchestration.
• Practitioner insights on daily SOC challenges.
• Practical automation strategies that reduce alert fatigue while improving threat containment.

Devin Hamilton

Principal Tech Alliances Program Manager - Mimecast

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Joe Tibbetts

VP, Technology Alliances & API - Mimecast

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Wayne Cross

Director of IT Cyber Security and Infrastructure Operations - BLG

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The threat landscape around email and collaboration tools is evolving faster than ever, from account takeover (ATO) to insider abuse and sophisticated Business Email Compromise (BEC) campaigns facilitated by FraudGPT. This roadmap session will provide a practioner-first view into how Mimecast is building the next generation of Email & Collaboration Threat Protection, designed to extend and enhance Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments.

Key takeaways:

• Live technical demos of upcoming features across AI-detection, behavioral analysis, and real-time API integrations.
• Roadmap deep dive: how Mimecast is addressing ATO, BEC, and lateral movement within collaboration platforms.
• Deployment innovation: new ways we're simplifying rollouts, tuning policies, and reducing admin overhead without sacrificing control.

You'll walk away with clear visibility into Mimecast's priorities, how they map to today's most urgent threats, and the practical steps your team can take to prepare for what's next.

Rob Juncker

Chief Product Officer - Mimecast

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Dylan Morse

Senior Product Manager - Mimecast

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Andrew Williams

Senior Product Manager - Mimecast

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Attend a live recording of the CISO Series Podcast, CISO Series Podcast, a weekly news and opinion podcast hosted by cybersecurity journalist David Spark! David will sit down with Mimecast CISO Leslie Nielsen and Priceline Chief Security Officer, Matthew Southworth to talk all things human risk and AI-powered cyber threats.

David Spark

Cybersecurity Journalist & Host

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With the surge of enterprise data and the rise of AI, Mimecast is transforming workflow security and efficiency by embedding advanced, responsible AI across our product suites. Discover how our AI-First strategy and innovations like the Mimecast Cloud Platform are delivering smarter protection—sometimes in ways you see, and sometimes where you don’t.

• Mimecast’s approach to integrating AI throughout our human risk solutions.
• Real examples of visible and invisible AI within Mimecast products.
• Our focus on responsible data stewardship and intentional, transparent AI experiences.

Matt Pasternack

VP - Product Management - Mimecast

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Security teams are stretched thin, and effective threat protection requires a pre- and post-breach strategy that addresses both prevention and incident response comprehensively. Yet 90% of user-reported suspicious emails are ultimately harmless, creating operational inefficiency that compounds team burnout. Mimecast Email Incident Response (MEIR) augments your teams with AI-powered automation to triage and remediate suspicious emails. Learn how this intelligent approach delivers rapid threat classification and remediation across both prevention and incident scenarios, enabling security analysts to focus on high-priority business-critical threats.

Key takeaways:

• Review case studies of recent campaigns and how they were triaged through MEIR.
• Learn how MEIR integrates seamlessly into existing SOC workflows and reduces analyst fatigue.
• Understand how expert analysis and comprehensive reporting strengthen existing security incident response processes.

Chris DeLeon

Director of Cyber Defense - Paradigm

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Otis Kue

Principal Security Engineer - Paradigm

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Insider risks have always been one of the costliest attack vectors, and one of the hardest risks to mitigate. Mimecast Incydr is leading the charge to thwart risks from insiders with a modern approach to real-time monitoring, risk prioritization, and automated response. Delivered through an exceptional user experience, Incydr is helping our customers tackle the challenges of ShadowAI, IP Theft, PII data leakage and source code movement. In this session we will walk through example use cases and future capabilities for preventing IP theft, insider abuse, and unintentional leaks.

Key takeaways:

• How Incydr helps address the most common and costly use cases.
• Roadmap features including AI-based investments.
• The role Incydr plays within Human Risk management for a holistic “people + data” approach.

David Capuano

VP - Product Management - Mimecast

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Compliance requirements are getting tougher, while attackers are getting smarter at exploiting weak spots in email communication. From PCI-DSS to HIPAA and GDPR, even small missteps can lead to fines, reputational fallout, and operational disruption. This session will take a practical look at how to close compliance gaps without slowing down your organization.
Key takeaways:

• Real-world examples of where data leakage exposed compliance gaps.
• How to classify sensitive data effectively without drowning in manual effort.
• Practical strategies to apply Mimecast DLP and encryption policies in regulated environments.
• Ways to integrate email security into broader data governance frameworks.

Kyle Thomas

Senior Director, Global Information Security - WEX

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Workplace tools like Slack, Teams, and Zoom have expanded the risk landscape dramatically. This session provides practical strategies to govern, secure, and streamline sprawling collaboration environments.

Key takeaways:

• Mitigating insider risk and regulatory violations in collaboration ecosystems.
• Automating governance with cloud-native integrations.
• Building compliance confidence across expanding work surfaces.

Edwin Moreno

Global FCTO - Mimecast

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With just 8% of users responsible for 80% of risk, CISOs need a unified, actionable view of human risk to stay ahead. This roadmap session unveils the Human Risk Command Center, demonstrating how Mimecast correlates user behavior, risky account activity, and attack frequency into clear, actionable risk metrics. See how unified visibility, adaptive policies, and seamless automation empower organizations to identify and reduce human risk more effectively than ever.

Key takeaways:

• Explore the Human Risk Command Center and gain insights into real risk based on data from across your security stack.
• See how dynamic policy recommendations and automated workflows simplify and supercharge your security defenses.
• Live demos that deliver: Watch in action the features designed to deliver measurable, impactful reduction in human risk.

Masha Sedova

VP, Human Risk Strategist - Mimecast

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Boards and execs don’t want technical jargon, they want business impact. This workshop shows how to transform security metrics into meaningful insights and reports that drive executive buy-in.

Key takeaways:

• Which metrics matter most to CISOs, CFOs, and Boards.
• How to build dashboards that and resonate across audiences.
• Turn ROI reporting into funding for future initiatives.

Gary Welch

Principal Customer Value Engineer - Mimecast

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Neil Clauson

Regional CISO

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Security teams don’t need more alerts, they need fewer blind spots. By integrating Mimecast and CrowdStrike, security teams get a unified view of threats across email and endpoint, with bidirectional workflows that automate detection and response. This session will show how joint customers are collapsing manual steps, tightening controls, and reducing dwell time.

Key takeaways:

• How email and endpoint signals combine to expose attack chains earlier.
• Where automated workflows replace manual triage and improve accuracy.
• Real-world examples of joint customers eliminating threats faster with Mimecast + CrowdStrike.

Alex Rich

Strategic Alliance Manager - CrowdStrike

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Bill Lucas

Senior Director of Cybersecurity - Mastronardi

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Wayne Cross

Director of IT Cyber Security and Infrastructure Operations - Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

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Spotting and stopping insider threats goes beyond keeping an eye on the CEO. The real danger often lies with employees like Harry in Ops—once a team player, now disgruntled and quietly siphoning off sensitive data. This dynamic session dives into the art and science of detecting these subtle shifts and taking action before it’s too late.

Key takeaways:

• Discover the behavioral red flags that signal insider threats.
• Uncover cutting-edge tools to monitor and respond to risky activity.
• Master strategies to safeguard your enterprise’s most valuable information.

Get ready to level up your insider threat defense game!

Giles Ashton-Roberts

Chief Information Security Officer - Swissport

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Where are you on your HRM journey? This interactive workshop uses Mimecast’s Human Risk Maturity Model to benchmark your organization against peers. Attendees will map their current state, identify gaps, and leave with a roadmap for program improvement.

Key takeaways:

• HRM maturity framework explained (Reactive → Proactive → Resilient).
• Customized improvement plan for your organization.
• Collaborate with your peers to refine your approach and improve security posture.

Alex Matheson

Senior Manager - Education Experience - Mimecast

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Masha Sedova

VP, Human Risk Strategist - Mimecast

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The most critical risk and insight about employees, brand, and customers lives in the exploding, real-time dataset where humans work and communicate – Email, Teams, Slack, and beyond. This roadmap showcases Mimecast's vision in leveraging AI to make this data immediately accessible, usable, and valuable across the entire enterprise.

Key takeaways:

• Mimecast's re-invented vision and direction in the digital communication governance and archiving space
• Our AI-first approach to managing and analyzing data
• Governance innovations across data sources like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
• Customer-inspired roadmap priorities

Matt Pasternack

VP Product Management - Mimecast

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Slack, Teams, Zoom, email, and shared drives... collaboration platforms are now the backbone of business productivity, but they’ve also opened the door to new risks. Sensitive data moves across channels every day, often without oversight, and collaboration tools are often left vulnerable to threats.

This session will dig into the blind spots attackers exploit and how to detect and stop risky behavior before it leads to data loss.

Key takeaways:

• Stopping malicious payloads within collaboration tools.
• Real-world incidents that highlight the risks of chat and file-sharing misuse.
• Detection and prevention strategies that work across multiple communication channels.
• Best practices for safeguarding information flow without disrupting employee productivity.

Mark Guntrip

Vice President, Product Marketing - Mimecast

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AI is everywhere in cyber but often creates more friction than value. Join us to learn how Mimecast applies AI to real-world problems: from detecting lookalike domains at scale to identifying anomalous behavior across millions of interactions. We'll also address the privacy dilemma: how to analyze behavior without creating employee surveillance concerns.

Key takeaways:

• Deep dive into Mimecast’s AI models for threat detection and behavioral analytics.
• How AI reduces false negatives while respecting data privacy boundaries.
• Practical governance frameworks for ethical AI use in security.

Jason Morgan

Distinguished Architect, Data Science - Mimecast

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Discover how to maximize Mimecast solutions in our interactive session, "Bring Your Own Business Case." Tailored for IT admins and decision-makers, this roundtable combines expert-led discussions with collaborative forums.
Key takeaways:

• Learn advanced configuration techniques for Mimecast.
• Explore real-world use cases to solve technical challenges.
• Gain actionable insights to optimize email security and resilience.

Discover how Mimecast is redefining security culture by transforming security awareness and training with personalized engagement, just-in-time nudges, and behavior-driven risk scoring. We’ll showcase our product vision, including new adaptive personalized learning journeys.

Key takeaways:

• Roadmap deep dive: enhanced phishing simulations, adaptive content, behavior-based risk dashboards, and personalized scorecards.
• Hear how customer feedback is shaping our innovations.
• See live demonstrations of upcoming features that will help you foster resilience and measurable security outcomes.

Masha Sedova

VP, Human Risk Strategist - Mimecast

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Risk exposure differs among employees. This session dives into the data to uncover the dynamics driving riskier behaviors and factors like cognitive load, life events, and knowledge gaps.

Topics covered will include examining current attack trends targeting specific roles and offering strategies to bolster individual and organizational security resilience.

Key takeaways:

• Understand what makes certain individuals riskier than others.
• Discover how to align appropriate interventions with various levels of risk.

Giulian Garruba

Senior Director, Product Marketing - Mimecast

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Microsoft 365 powers collaboration, but its popularity attracts attackers. Mimecast keeps your investment protected, resilient, and future-ready. Learn how Mimecast works alongside Microsoft 365, leveraging AI-driven intelligence, API-enabled controls, and deep threat detection to stop advanced email and collaboration attacks before they cause damage.

Join us to learn:

• How leading organizations use Mimecast’s AI-powered protection to close the gaps adversaries target in Microsoft 365.
• Real-world stories of how integrated defenses have prevented credential theft, business email compromise, and ransomware.
• A practical framework to quantify risk reduction and ROI from an integrated security posture.
• Actionable strategies for extending Microsoft 365’s native defenses with resilient, layered protection.

Edwin Moreno

Global FCTO - Mimecast

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While security teams chase attribution and perfect patch management, threat actors are exploiting a far simpler vulnerability: humans. This session reveals what Mimecast's threat intelligence teams are actually seeing in the wild. We'll expose real campaigns targeting our customers and demonstrate how threat actors are weaponizing AI faster than defenders can adapt. Join Mimecast's experts as they debate the real organizational impact of these evolving threats. Together, they'll tackle the hard questions every security leader faces: How do you prepare for threats that don't exist yet?

Andrew Watson

VP of AI/ML and Threat Protection - Mimecast

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Step into the shadowy world of espionage at SPYSCAPE, NYC’s #1-ranked museum & experience! Enjoy an evening of missions, laser mazes, and code-breaking. Transportation will be provided from Convene to SPYSCAPE beginning at 5:30pm.

Join your peers and Mimecast to kick-off day! Registration will open at this time as well.

Humans are creatures of habit – and hackers know it. Award-winning journalist Nicole Perlroth shows how biases, everyday routines, and predictable behaviors increase vulnerability to cyber threats. As AI brings increased complexity, systems adapt, but humans resist change. Could working with, not against, human nature be our best line of defense?

Nicole Perlroth

Award-winning cybersecurity journalist

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The value of communication data is often overlooked, yet it’s a goldmine for intelligence. A crisis has the power to wipe out 30% of a company’s value in an instant. But here’s the good news—fast, informed action can slash those losses to just 4%.

This session explores how to convert messaging data into proactive insights.

Key takeaways:

• Detecting risks before they escalate with real-time analytics.
• Building smarter data defenses with AI-driven enrichment.
• Turning communication into competitive advantage.

Susan Kearns

Director, Product Management - Mimecast

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Insider and outsider threats don’t respect platform boundaries. Netskope and Mimecast together provide a playbook for protecting sensitive data across email, cloud, and SaaS environments. This session details how joint customers are using combined visibility and control to reduce data leakage and shadow IT risk.

Key takeaways:

• Real customer examples of Mimecast + Netskope deployed together.
• Master threat protection and insider risk: Combat threats, mitigate insider risk, and secure AI.
• Playbook guidance: tuning policies to stop data leaks without blocking productivity.

James Robinson

CISO - Netskope

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From unintentional data leaks, to employees stealing IP during exits, and employees uploading sensitive data into GenAI tools, insider threats are evolving fast. This session unpacks the top three risks most organizations face today and shows how to prioritize detection and prevention.

Key takeaways:

• Identify and prioritize insider risks based on contextual data.
• Pragmatic controls to protect sensitive information such as IP and PII from accidental or malicious exfiltration.
• Simplify deployment to get to rapid ROI.

Beth Miller

Field CISO - Mimecast

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Account Takeover (ATO) attacks are evolving, using stolen credentials, MFA fatigue, and AI-driven social engineering. Defending against them requires a layered approach that works before, during, and after compromise. This session will break down practical strategies to spot the signs early, contain breaches quickly, and protect accounts long-term.

Key takeaways:

• How Mimecast combines email and identity signals to power advanced ATO defenses.
• Techniques for spotting anomalies and stopping credential misuse before escalation.
• Post-breach containment playbooks to limit damage and recover faster.

Andrew Williams

Senior Product Manager - Mimecast

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Training alone isn’t enough to stop risky behavior. To reduce human risk, you need to identify risky users and tailor interventions that actually change behavior. This session will go beyond click-rate metrics to explore data-driven approaches that pinpoint who your riskiest users are and how to reach them effectively.

Key takeaways:

• How to identify high-risk users using behavioral and contextual signals.
• Data-driven methods for tailoring training and interventions.
• Real-world results from programs that move security awareness from “check-the-box” to measurable impact.

Katalina Millian

Senior Product Manager - Mimecast

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Vijay Ramanathan

VP Product Management - Mimecast

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Discover how to maximize Mimecast solutions in our interactive session, "Bring Your Own Business Case." Tailored for IT admins and decision-makers, this roundtable combines expert-led discussions with collaborative forums.
Key takeaways:

• Learn advanced configuration techniques for Mimecast.
• Explore real-world use cases to solve technical challenges.
• Gain actionable insights to optimize email security and resilience.

Human Risk Management isn’t just for awareness teams, it’s a SOC-level tool that enables prioritization, integration, and automation.

This session shows how Mimecast’s Human Risk Management Platform not only ingests data from across your security ecosystem, but also feeds critical intelligence into SIEMs, SOARs, and more, giving analysts the context they need to triage incidents faster and giving you more context and visibility into real risk. We’ll explore how risk scoring prioritizes alerts, automates policy tightening, and reduces time to containment when compromised accounts are in play.

Key takeaways:

• See real-world examples of live integrations between Mimecast and third-party tools.
• Practical demos: automatic adjustment of security controls for “high-risk” users.
• Use behavioral telemetry to cut false positives in SecOps workflows.

Devin Hamilton

Principal Tech Alliance Program Manager - Mimecast

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Joe Tibbetts

VP, Technology Alliances & API - Mimecast

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Employees are pasting sensitive IP into unsanctioned AI apps like ChatGPT, Bard, DeepSeek, and Claude, often without realizing the associated risks to your organization. This session explores how to detect shadow AI use before it leads to data breaches or legal exposure, how to set effective policies, and how to balance innovation with protection.

Key takeaways:

• Signs of Shadow AI activity and their impact on enterprise security.
• Policy frameworks to enable safe GenAI adoption.
• Lessons learned from organizations who’ve suffered unintentional AI-driven data leaks.

Schuyler Pagenstecher

Senior Product Manager - Mimecast

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In an era of AI disruption and escalating cybersecurity threats, the biggest advantage you can build is the ability to imagine what others cannot yet see. Future forecaster and game designer Jane McGonigal will show you how to turn uncertainty into urgent optimism with hands-on future imagination exercises drawn from her work with organizations on the front lines of change. You'll practice a powerful technique called "mental time travel" that combines neuroscience interventions with game psychology. You’ll try social simulation techniques that transform future threats into collaborative problem-solving games—so you and your teams can experiment with strategies before the crisis hits. And you’ll experience how a gamer’s mindset—curiosity, creativity, resilience—can help you turn AI anxiety into energy for invention. You’ll leave with practical tools to expand your imagination, reduce the stress of the unknown, and strengthen your foresight for building the secure, resilient futures you want.

Jane McGonigal, PhD

Two-time NYT bestselling author

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