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Can You Predict a Cyber Attack Before It Happens?

By Christian Wiens | Jun 22, 2022

When hackers breach a network, focus naturally, and wisely, turns to the first point of intrusion. But a wider view, one that includes an understanding of what happened after the breach can empower your organization to predict — and most important, prevent — the next attack. MixMode is helping organizations across the country do just that, every day.

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Can Your Enterprise Cybersecurity Solution Solve These Two Challenges? You May Be More Vulnerable Than You Realize

By Christian Wiens | Jun 16, 2022

Of all the challenges facing the modern SOC, two stand out among the most persistent and difficult to overcome: an overwhelming volume of false positive alerts and an alarming escalation in zero-day and novel threats that are often imperceptible by legacy systems.

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How Vulnerable Is Your Organization to the Growing Ransomware Threat? It May Be Time to Modernize Your Cybersecurity Approach.

By Christian Wiens | Jun 8, 2022

Well over half of global organizations — 66% — were hit with ransomware attacks in 2021, according to a new independent study. In a sign that we may be seeing a ramp up to even more widespread damage from these sneak attacks, it’s a 78% increase over the prior year.

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MixMode Welcomes Seasoned Cybersecurity Leader Dan “Thor” Thormodsgaard as a Strategic Advisor

By Christian Wiens | Jun 2, 2022

MixMode, a leading provider of self-learning solutions to detect cyberattacks in real time, announces that Dan “Thor” Thormodsgaard has joined the company as a Strategic Advisor. Thor will apply his 25 years of experience in IT Consulting, of which 19 were in IT Security Consulting, to support MixMode in strategic planning and partnerships.

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MixMode Team Members from Around the Globe Gather in Santa Barbara for MixMode Summit 2022

By Christian Wiens | May 25, 2022

With the announcement of our Series B fundraising round, 2022 has catapulted us into a hyper-growth period for our company. With new team members joining rapidly and our product expanding exponentially, it was time that we hosted the first ever MixMode Summit!

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Zero-day Exploit Discoveries Hit Record Numbers in 2021

By Christian Wiens | May 19, 2022

The number of zero-day exploit discoveries hit record numbers in 2021, according to Google Project Zero. Instances of “in-the-wild 0-days” were up nearly double versus 2020, when only 25 0-day exploits were detected. In 2021, the total was 58.

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Making an Informed Cloud Security Decision

By Christian Wiens | May 11, 2022

Many organizations rely on neural networks driven by machine learning that relies on the accuracy of manually constructed training data. Training data errors lead to overlooked anomalous behavior and, often, mountains of false positive and negative flags that have to be reviewed by human analysts.

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The Limitations of rules-Based Cybersecurity

By Christian Wiens | May 4, 2022

Holistic insight into how high-level information is tied to specific accounts users is central to launching an effective security strategy. Unfortunately, all too often, SOC analysts find themselves applying human intelligence and comparing spreadsheet data to arrive at potential correlative values that may or may not be helpful or even accurate.

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The Challenges of Hybrid Cloud Security Approaches

By Christian Wiens | Apr 27, 2022

It is increasingly more common for organizations to adopt cloud computing in a hybrid fashion, keeping some on-premise infrastructure in place while moving select data to the cloud. While this approach may save on costs in the short term, hybrid solutions complicate organizational security postures.

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