Security Milestones, Control Gates and Break/Build
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In the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) domain of Secure Software Lifecycle Management, security must be woven into every phase of development rather than bolted on at the end. Three governance mechanisms make this possible: security milestones, control gates, and break/build criteria. Security Milestones are defined checkpoints in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) where specific security deliverables must be completed. Examples include finalizing security requirements during planning, completing threat modeling during design, performing static analysis during implementation, and conducting penetration testing before release. Milestones make security activities visible, schedulable, and measurable, ensuring that security work is planned alongside functional work and tracked by project management. Control Gates (also called stage gates or quality gates) are formal decision points that sit between lifecycle phases. At each gate, stakeholders review evidence that the required security milestones have been achieved and that risk is within acceptable tolerance before authorizing progression to the next phase. A gate might require that all high-severity findings are remediated, that security sign-off has been obtained, or that documented residual risk is formally accepted by an authorized owner. Gates enforce accountability and prevent insecure work products from moving forward, which reduces the cost of fixing defects discovered later. Break/Build criteria apply these principles at the automation level, particularly within continuous integration and DevSecOps pipelines. A 'build break' occurs when an automated security check—such as a static analysis scan, dependency vulnerability check, secret detection, or unit test for security controls—fails against a predefined threshold, halting the build. This establishes fast feedback for developers and enforces security policy objectively and consistently. Teams must tune thresholds to avoid excessive false positives that cause developers to bypass controls. Together, these mechanisms translate security policy into enforceable, repeatable lifecycle governance, supporting the CSSLP goals of building security in, managing risk continuously, and producing assurance evidence for auditors and stakeholders.
Security Milestones, Control Gates and Break/Build: A Complete CSSLP Study Guide
Overview
This guide covers a core topic in CSSLP Domain 2, Secure Software Lifecycle Management: how organizations embed security checkpoints into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) so that security is verified, measured and enforced rather than merely hoped for. The three related ideas are security milestones (planned points where security deliverables are due), control gates (decision points where work cannot proceed until security criteria are satisfied) and break/build (automated enforcement in the build pipeline that stops a build when security policy is violated). You will learn why these mechanisms matter, what each one is, how they operate in practice, and how to recognize and answer exam questions about them.
Why This Topic Is Important
Security requirements that are written down but never checked tend to erode under schedule pressure. Milestones and gates convert security from an aspiration into an enforceable part of project governance. They are important because:
1. They create accountability. A gate requires a named person or body to approve or reject progress, which means security decisions are made consciously and recorded.
2. They shift security left. Gates placed early in the lifecycle (requirements, design) catch defects when they are cheapest to fix. A flaw found at a design gate costs a fraction of one found in production.
3. They provide evidence for compliance and audit. Regulations and standards such as PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27034, NIST SP 800-64 and SOC 2 expect demonstrable, repeatable security checkpoints.
4. They make risk visible to management. A go/no-go decision at a gate forces stakeholders to either remediate or formally accept residual risk.
5. They support speed, not just safety. In DevSecOps, automated gates (break/build) give developers feedback within minutes, so security becomes a routine part of coding instead of a late-stage surprise.
For the CSSLP exam, this topic appears in questions about secure SDLC governance, metrics, DevSecOps pipelines, risk acceptance and the role of security in release decisions.
What Are Security Milestones?
A security milestone is a scheduled point in the project plan at which a specific security deliverable or activity must be completed. Milestones are planning and tracking constructs: they tell the team what security work is due and when. Typical security milestones include:
- Security requirements documented and approved (end of requirements phase)
- Threat model completed and reviewed (design phase)
- Security architecture review signed off
- Secure coding standards adopted and developers trained
- Static analysis baseline established
- Security test plan approved
- Penetration test completed and findings triaged
- Residual risk accepted and release security sign-off obtained
- Incident response and patching plan in place before deployment
Milestones are often aligned with the phases of the SDLC methodology in use. In waterfall they map to phase boundaries; in Agile they may be sprint-level definitions of done or release-level criteria; in DevOps they are frequently automated and continuous.
What Are Control Gates?
A control gate (also called a tollgate, checkpoint, stage gate or quality gate) is a formal decision point where the project is evaluated against predefined criteria and a go / no-go / conditional-go decision is made. The key difference from a milestone is enforcement: a milestone says work is due, a gate says you may not proceed until the criteria are met.
Characteristics of an effective control gate:
- Predefined entry and exit criteria. Criteria are agreed before the phase begins, not invented at the review. Examples: all high and critical findings closed; threat model approved by security architect; code coverage of security tests above an agreed threshold.
- Objective and measurable. Criteria should be verifiable through artifacts, test results or metrics rather than opinion.
- Independent review. The approver should be separate from the team doing the work to preserve separation of duties, often a security architect, security champion council, change advisory board or risk owner.
- Documented outcomes. Pass, fail or conditional pass with a remediation plan and deadline. Conditional passes should be tracked to closure.
- Formal exception handling. If the business must proceed despite unmet criteria, an exception requires documented risk acceptance by someone with appropriate authority, typically the business or system owner, not the developer.
Common gate placements across the SDLC:
1. Requirements gate: security and privacy requirements, abuse cases and compliance obligations captured and approved.
2. Design gate: threat model complete, attack surface analyzed, security architecture reviewed, mitigations mapped to threats.
3. Implementation gate: static analysis clean to policy, peer code review complete, third-party components inventoried and free of known critical vulnerabilities.
4. Testing gate: security test cases executed, dynamic analysis and fuzzing done, penetration test findings remediated or accepted.
5. Release / deployment gate: secure configuration verified, secrets removed, operational readiness (logging, monitoring, incident response) confirmed, final security sign-off recorded.
6. Operations gate: post-deployment verification, vulnerability management and change control for ongoing releases.
What Is Break/Build?
Break/build (often phrased as break the build or fail the build) is the practice of configuring the continuous integration (CI) pipeline so that a build automatically fails when a security check does not meet policy. It is essentially a control gate implemented as code and executed automatically on every commit or merge.
Typical checks that can break the build:
- Static application security testing (SAST) finds a critical or high severity defect
- Software composition analysis (SCA) detects a dependency with a known exploitable vulnerability or a prohibited license
- Secrets scanning finds hard-coded credentials or API keys
- Infrastructure-as-code scanning finds insecure configurations
- Security unit or integration tests fail
- Container image scanning finds critical CVEs
- Code coverage of security-relevant tests falls below threshold
- Signed commits or artifact signatures are missing (supply chain integrity)
Design principles for break/build:
- Risk-based thresholds. Break on critical and high severity; report but do not block on medium and low, at least initially. Blocking on everything creates alert fatigue and encourages developers to bypass the tool.
- Fast feedback. Checks that break the build should run quickly so developers learn of problems within minutes. Slower checks (full DAST, pentest) belong at later gates.
- Tuned tooling. False positives must be managed through tuning and suppression with justification, otherwise the gate loses credibility.
- Progressive enforcement. Start in audit or warn mode to establish a baseline, then switch to blocking once the team can sustain a clean build.
- Policy as code. Thresholds and rules are versioned alongside the application, reviewed and approved like any other change.
- Governed exceptions. Overrides must be logged, time-limited and approved by an authorized role, never silently disabled by the developer who triggered the failure.
- Metrics. Track build failure rate due to security, mean time to fix a broken build, recurring finding categories and escaped defects to prove the control works and to drive training.
How It All Works Together
Picture the flow: at project initiation, security requirements and a schedule of milestones are set. Each major phase ends with a control gate whose criteria were defined up front. Between gates, developers commit code continuously; the pipeline applies break/build rules so defects are caught the same day they are introduced. By the time the formal gate review arrives, most low-level issues are already gone, and the gate can focus on architectural risk, residual findings and business risk acceptance. Metrics from the pipeline and gate outcomes feed back into training, tooling and the next project's criteria, forming a continuous improvement loop. In Agile and DevOps, the same concepts apply but are compressed: the definition of done acts as a sprint-level gate, automated pipeline checks act as per-commit gates, and release approval acts as the final gate.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Project or product manager: schedules milestones and ensures gate reviews occur.
- Security architect / security champion: defines criteria, performs or coordinates reviews, recommends pass or fail.
- Development team: produces the required artifacts and keeps the build green.
- Release or change advisory board: makes the formal go/no-go decision at deployment.
- Business or system owner / risk owner: the only party authorized to accept residual risk and grant exceptions.
- Audit / compliance: verifies that gates were followed and exceptions were properly documented.
Common Pitfalls
- Gates that are rubber-stamped because criteria are vague or the reviewer is not independent.
- Criteria defined after the fact to match whatever the team produced.
- Break/build thresholds so strict that developers disable scanning or pile up suppressions.
- Exceptions granted informally by developers or testers rather than by the risk owner.
- Treating a conditional pass as a pass and never tracking the remediation items.
- Placing all gates at the end of the lifecycle, which defeats the shift-left purpose.
Exam Tips: Answering Questions on Security Milestones, Control Gates and Break/Build
1. Know the vocabulary. Milestone = scheduled deliverable. Control gate / tollgate / checkpoint = go/no-go decision point with predefined criteria. Break the build = automated failure of a CI build on a security policy violation. If a question describes work cannot proceed until approved, the answer involves a gate. If it describes the pipeline automatically stops, the answer involves break/build.
2. Criteria must be defined in advance. When a question asks what is most important for an effective gate, look for the answer that mentions predefined, objective, measurable exit criteria agreed before the phase starts.
3. Exceptions require formal risk acceptance by the right authority. If a gate fails and the business wants to ship anyway, the correct answer is documented risk acceptance by the business or system owner with a remediation plan, never a developer or tester quietly waiving the finding, and never deleting the control.
4. Independence and separation of duties. The gate reviewer or approver should not be the same person who did the work. Answers emphasizing independent review are usually correct.
5. Risk-based, not all-or-nothing. For break/build questions, the best answer typically blocks on critical and high severity while reporting lower severity, and mentions tuning false positives and progressive enforcement. An answer that says block on every finding of any severity is usually a distractor because it causes bypass behavior.
6. Shift left. When asked where a gate or check should be placed to reduce cost, choose the earliest feasible point: requirements and design gates for architectural risk, per-commit break/build for coding defects.
7. Gates apply in Agile and DevOps too. Do not pick an answer claiming gates are only for waterfall. In Agile they appear as definition of done and release criteria; in DevOps they are automated and continuous.
8. Evidence and metrics. Questions about proving the SDLC is secure, satisfying auditors or measuring improvement point toward documented gate outcomes, tracked exceptions and pipeline metrics such as failure rate and time to remediate.
9. Watch for the word BEST or MOST. Several options may be partially correct. Prefer the option that is preventive, governance-oriented, measurable and addresses root cause (for example, enforce the gate and track exceptions) over options that are reactive or that simply add more testing at the end.
10. Conditional pass is not a free pass. If a scenario mentions issues deferred at a gate, the correct follow-up is tracking them to closure with owners and deadlines.
11. Supply chain angle. Modern exam items may describe third-party components or container images. Remember that SCA and image scanning are legitimate break/build checks, and that failing a build on a known critical CVE in a dependency is appropriate.
12. Eliminate distractors that remove security from the decision. Any answer where the development team alone decides to skip the gate, where the security tool is disabled to meet a deadline, or where risk is accepted without documentation is almost always wrong.
Sample Question Walkthroughs
Question 1: A development team repeatedly disables the SAST step in the CI pipeline because builds fail on minor findings. What is the BEST corrective action?
- Remove SAST from the pipeline
- Configure the pipeline to break only on high and critical findings while reporting others, and tune rules to reduce false positives
- Require manual approval for every commit
- Move SAST to the production deployment stage
Answer: The second option. It keeps the control, applies risk-based thresholds and addresses the root cause (noise). Removing or delaying the control weakens security; manual approval of every commit is impractical.
Question 2: At the pre-release control gate, a critical vulnerability remains open but the business insists on shipping. What should the security professional recommend?
- Approve the release because the business requested it
- Have the lead developer document that the issue is acceptable
- Obtain formal, documented risk acceptance from the business owner along with a time-bound remediation plan, or do not release
- Downgrade the finding to medium so the gate passes
Answer: The third option. Risk acceptance belongs to the accountable business owner, must be documented and must include remediation tracking. Reclassifying the finding to game the gate is an integrity failure.
Question 3: Which characteristic MOST contributes to the effectiveness of a security control gate?
- The gate is held at the end of the project
- Exit criteria are defined and agreed before the phase begins and are objectively verifiable
- The project manager performs the security review
- Gate outcomes are communicated verbally
Answer: The second option. Predefined, measurable criteria are the foundation of a meaningful gate. The other options describe late placement, lack of independence and lack of documentation.
Key Takeaways
- Milestones schedule security work; gates enforce it; break/build automates enforcement in the pipeline.
- Effective gates have predefined measurable criteria, independent approvers, documented outcomes and governed exceptions.
- Break/build should be risk-based, fast, tuned and progressively enforced to keep developer trust.
- Only the accountable business or risk owner can accept residual risk when a gate is not met.
- Place gates early (shift left) and keep them in Agile and DevOps through definition of done and automated checks.
- On the exam, favor answers that preserve the control, define criteria up front, require proper authority for exceptions and produce evidence.
This guide covers a core topic in CSSLP Domain 2, Secure Software Lifecycle Management: how organizations embed security checkpoints into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) so that security is verified, measured and enforced rather than merely hoped for. The three related ideas are security milestones (planned points where security deliverables are due), control gates (decision points where work cannot proceed until security criteria are satisfied) and break/build (automated enforcement in the build pipeline that stops a build when security policy is violated). You will learn why these mechanisms matter, what each one is, how they operate in practice, and how to recognize and answer exam questions about them.
Why This Topic Is Important
Security requirements that are written down but never checked tend to erode under schedule pressure. Milestones and gates convert security from an aspiration into an enforceable part of project governance. They are important because:
1. They create accountability. A gate requires a named person or body to approve or reject progress, which means security decisions are made consciously and recorded.
2. They shift security left. Gates placed early in the lifecycle (requirements, design) catch defects when they are cheapest to fix. A flaw found at a design gate costs a fraction of one found in production.
3. They provide evidence for compliance and audit. Regulations and standards such as PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27034, NIST SP 800-64 and SOC 2 expect demonstrable, repeatable security checkpoints.
4. They make risk visible to management. A go/no-go decision at a gate forces stakeholders to either remediate or formally accept residual risk.
5. They support speed, not just safety. In DevSecOps, automated gates (break/build) give developers feedback within minutes, so security becomes a routine part of coding instead of a late-stage surprise.
For the CSSLP exam, this topic appears in questions about secure SDLC governance, metrics, DevSecOps pipelines, risk acceptance and the role of security in release decisions.
What Are Security Milestones?
A security milestone is a scheduled point in the project plan at which a specific security deliverable or activity must be completed. Milestones are planning and tracking constructs: they tell the team what security work is due and when. Typical security milestones include:
- Security requirements documented and approved (end of requirements phase)
- Threat model completed and reviewed (design phase)
- Security architecture review signed off
- Secure coding standards adopted and developers trained
- Static analysis baseline established
- Security test plan approved
- Penetration test completed and findings triaged
- Residual risk accepted and release security sign-off obtained
- Incident response and patching plan in place before deployment
Milestones are often aligned with the phases of the SDLC methodology in use. In waterfall they map to phase boundaries; in Agile they may be sprint-level definitions of done or release-level criteria; in DevOps they are frequently automated and continuous.
What Are Control Gates?
A control gate (also called a tollgate, checkpoint, stage gate or quality gate) is a formal decision point where the project is evaluated against predefined criteria and a go / no-go / conditional-go decision is made. The key difference from a milestone is enforcement: a milestone says work is due, a gate says you may not proceed until the criteria are met.
Characteristics of an effective control gate:
- Predefined entry and exit criteria. Criteria are agreed before the phase begins, not invented at the review. Examples: all high and critical findings closed; threat model approved by security architect; code coverage of security tests above an agreed threshold.
- Objective and measurable. Criteria should be verifiable through artifacts, test results or metrics rather than opinion.
- Independent review. The approver should be separate from the team doing the work to preserve separation of duties, often a security architect, security champion council, change advisory board or risk owner.
- Documented outcomes. Pass, fail or conditional pass with a remediation plan and deadline. Conditional passes should be tracked to closure.
- Formal exception handling. If the business must proceed despite unmet criteria, an exception requires documented risk acceptance by someone with appropriate authority, typically the business or system owner, not the developer.
Common gate placements across the SDLC:
1. Requirements gate: security and privacy requirements, abuse cases and compliance obligations captured and approved.
2. Design gate: threat model complete, attack surface analyzed, security architecture reviewed, mitigations mapped to threats.
3. Implementation gate: static analysis clean to policy, peer code review complete, third-party components inventoried and free of known critical vulnerabilities.
4. Testing gate: security test cases executed, dynamic analysis and fuzzing done, penetration test findings remediated or accepted.
5. Release / deployment gate: secure configuration verified, secrets removed, operational readiness (logging, monitoring, incident response) confirmed, final security sign-off recorded.
6. Operations gate: post-deployment verification, vulnerability management and change control for ongoing releases.
What Is Break/Build?
Break/build (often phrased as break the build or fail the build) is the practice of configuring the continuous integration (CI) pipeline so that a build automatically fails when a security check does not meet policy. It is essentially a control gate implemented as code and executed automatically on every commit or merge.
Typical checks that can break the build:
- Static application security testing (SAST) finds a critical or high severity defect
- Software composition analysis (SCA) detects a dependency with a known exploitable vulnerability or a prohibited license
- Secrets scanning finds hard-coded credentials or API keys
- Infrastructure-as-code scanning finds insecure configurations
- Security unit or integration tests fail
- Container image scanning finds critical CVEs
- Code coverage of security-relevant tests falls below threshold
- Signed commits or artifact signatures are missing (supply chain integrity)
Design principles for break/build:
- Risk-based thresholds. Break on critical and high severity; report but do not block on medium and low, at least initially. Blocking on everything creates alert fatigue and encourages developers to bypass the tool.
- Fast feedback. Checks that break the build should run quickly so developers learn of problems within minutes. Slower checks (full DAST, pentest) belong at later gates.
- Tuned tooling. False positives must be managed through tuning and suppression with justification, otherwise the gate loses credibility.
- Progressive enforcement. Start in audit or warn mode to establish a baseline, then switch to blocking once the team can sustain a clean build.
- Policy as code. Thresholds and rules are versioned alongside the application, reviewed and approved like any other change.
- Governed exceptions. Overrides must be logged, time-limited and approved by an authorized role, never silently disabled by the developer who triggered the failure.
- Metrics. Track build failure rate due to security, mean time to fix a broken build, recurring finding categories and escaped defects to prove the control works and to drive training.
How It All Works Together
Picture the flow: at project initiation, security requirements and a schedule of milestones are set. Each major phase ends with a control gate whose criteria were defined up front. Between gates, developers commit code continuously; the pipeline applies break/build rules so defects are caught the same day they are introduced. By the time the formal gate review arrives, most low-level issues are already gone, and the gate can focus on architectural risk, residual findings and business risk acceptance. Metrics from the pipeline and gate outcomes feed back into training, tooling and the next project's criteria, forming a continuous improvement loop. In Agile and DevOps, the same concepts apply but are compressed: the definition of done acts as a sprint-level gate, automated pipeline checks act as per-commit gates, and release approval acts as the final gate.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Project or product manager: schedules milestones and ensures gate reviews occur.
- Security architect / security champion: defines criteria, performs or coordinates reviews, recommends pass or fail.
- Development team: produces the required artifacts and keeps the build green.
- Release or change advisory board: makes the formal go/no-go decision at deployment.
- Business or system owner / risk owner: the only party authorized to accept residual risk and grant exceptions.
- Audit / compliance: verifies that gates were followed and exceptions were properly documented.
Common Pitfalls
- Gates that are rubber-stamped because criteria are vague or the reviewer is not independent.
- Criteria defined after the fact to match whatever the team produced.
- Break/build thresholds so strict that developers disable scanning or pile up suppressions.
- Exceptions granted informally by developers or testers rather than by the risk owner.
- Treating a conditional pass as a pass and never tracking the remediation items.
- Placing all gates at the end of the lifecycle, which defeats the shift-left purpose.
Exam Tips: Answering Questions on Security Milestones, Control Gates and Break/Build
1. Know the vocabulary. Milestone = scheduled deliverable. Control gate / tollgate / checkpoint = go/no-go decision point with predefined criteria. Break the build = automated failure of a CI build on a security policy violation. If a question describes work cannot proceed until approved, the answer involves a gate. If it describes the pipeline automatically stops, the answer involves break/build.
2. Criteria must be defined in advance. When a question asks what is most important for an effective gate, look for the answer that mentions predefined, objective, measurable exit criteria agreed before the phase starts.
3. Exceptions require formal risk acceptance by the right authority. If a gate fails and the business wants to ship anyway, the correct answer is documented risk acceptance by the business or system owner with a remediation plan, never a developer or tester quietly waiving the finding, and never deleting the control.
4. Independence and separation of duties. The gate reviewer or approver should not be the same person who did the work. Answers emphasizing independent review are usually correct.
5. Risk-based, not all-or-nothing. For break/build questions, the best answer typically blocks on critical and high severity while reporting lower severity, and mentions tuning false positives and progressive enforcement. An answer that says block on every finding of any severity is usually a distractor because it causes bypass behavior.
6. Shift left. When asked where a gate or check should be placed to reduce cost, choose the earliest feasible point: requirements and design gates for architectural risk, per-commit break/build for coding defects.
7. Gates apply in Agile and DevOps too. Do not pick an answer claiming gates are only for waterfall. In Agile they appear as definition of done and release criteria; in DevOps they are automated and continuous.
8. Evidence and metrics. Questions about proving the SDLC is secure, satisfying auditors or measuring improvement point toward documented gate outcomes, tracked exceptions and pipeline metrics such as failure rate and time to remediate.
9. Watch for the word BEST or MOST. Several options may be partially correct. Prefer the option that is preventive, governance-oriented, measurable and addresses root cause (for example, enforce the gate and track exceptions) over options that are reactive or that simply add more testing at the end.
10. Conditional pass is not a free pass. If a scenario mentions issues deferred at a gate, the correct follow-up is tracking them to closure with owners and deadlines.
11. Supply chain angle. Modern exam items may describe third-party components or container images. Remember that SCA and image scanning are legitimate break/build checks, and that failing a build on a known critical CVE in a dependency is appropriate.
12. Eliminate distractors that remove security from the decision. Any answer where the development team alone decides to skip the gate, where the security tool is disabled to meet a deadline, or where risk is accepted without documentation is almost always wrong.
Sample Question Walkthroughs
Question 1: A development team repeatedly disables the SAST step in the CI pipeline because builds fail on minor findings. What is the BEST corrective action?
- Remove SAST from the pipeline
- Configure the pipeline to break only on high and critical findings while reporting others, and tune rules to reduce false positives
- Require manual approval for every commit
- Move SAST to the production deployment stage
Answer: The second option. It keeps the control, applies risk-based thresholds and addresses the root cause (noise). Removing or delaying the control weakens security; manual approval of every commit is impractical.
Question 2: At the pre-release control gate, a critical vulnerability remains open but the business insists on shipping. What should the security professional recommend?
- Approve the release because the business requested it
- Have the lead developer document that the issue is acceptable
- Obtain formal, documented risk acceptance from the business owner along with a time-bound remediation plan, or do not release
- Downgrade the finding to medium so the gate passes
Answer: The third option. Risk acceptance belongs to the accountable business owner, must be documented and must include remediation tracking. Reclassifying the finding to game the gate is an integrity failure.
Question 3: Which characteristic MOST contributes to the effectiveness of a security control gate?
- The gate is held at the end of the project
- Exit criteria are defined and agreed before the phase begins and are objectively verifiable
- The project manager performs the security review
- Gate outcomes are communicated verbally
Answer: The second option. Predefined, measurable criteria are the foundation of a meaningful gate. The other options describe late placement, lack of independence and lack of documentation.
Key Takeaways
- Milestones schedule security work; gates enforce it; break/build automates enforcement in the pipeline.
- Effective gates have predefined measurable criteria, independent approvers, documented outcomes and governed exceptions.
- Break/build should be risk-based, fast, tuned and progressively enforced to keep developer trust.
- Only the accountable business or risk owner can accept residual risk when a gate is not met.
- Place gates early (shift left) and keep them in Agile and DevOps through definition of done and automated checks.
- On the exam, favor answers that preserve the control, define criteria up front, require proper authority for exceptions and produce evidence.
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