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Guide: How to Choose an AI-Based Cybersecurity Platform

By Christian Wiens | Aug 6, 2020

Most cybersecurity vendors today tout some form of “Artificial Intelligence” as an underlying mechanism for the differentiation of their product among the market. But if everyone is saying they have AI, and everyone is also claiming theirs is the “best,” how can they all be telling the truth?

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Webinar Recap: The Next-Generation AI Powered SOC Platform

By Christian Wiens | Jul 30, 2020

One thing is clear: more spend does not equal more security and the next generation of cybersecurity tools will route out these inefficiencies.

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Deep Dive: How much time do security teams spend labeling with Supervised Learning?

By Christian Wiens | Jul 28, 2020

Many CISOs and SecOps teams were faced with a gut-wrenching choice: addressing the operational challenges of keeping workers connected, or shoring up vulnerabilities before hackers exploited them. Both options involved time-consuming, repetitive, manual work.

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Why a Platform With a Generative Baseline Matters

By Christian Wiens | Jul 23, 2020

MixMode creates a generative baseline. Unlike the historically-based baselines provided by add-on NTA solutions, a generative baseline is predictive, real-time, and accurate. MixMode provides anomaly detection and behavioral analytics and the ability to suppress false positives and surface true positives.

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Why The Future of Cybersecurity Needs Both Humans and AI Working Together

By Ana Mezic | Jul 21, 2020

A recent WhiteHat Security survey revealed that more than 70 percent of respondents cited AI-based tools as contributing to more efficiency. More than 55 percent of mundane tasks have been replaced by AI, freeing up analysts for other departmental tasks.

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Our Q2 Top Cybersecurity Insights

By Christian Wiens | Jul 16, 2020

Since we determine everything on data here at MixMode, we went into our website data to see which of our Q2 articles got the most traffic over the past few months. Not surprisingly, the majority of our top articles covered topics on the advancement of AI in cybersecurity and network traffic analysis (NTA).

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NTA and NDR: The Missing Piece

By Christian Wiens | Jul 14, 2020

Most SIEM vendors acknowledge the value of network traffic data for leading indicators of attacks, anomaly detection, and user behavior analysis as being far more useful than log data. Ironically, network traffic data is often expressly excluded from SIEM deployments, because the data ingest significantly increases the required data aggregation and storage costs typically 3-5x.

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The Problem with Relying on Log Data for Cybersecurity

By Christian Wiens | Jul 9, 2020

One of the most prevalent issues impacting the effectiveness of security teams who use SIEM as their primary means of threat detection and remediation is the fact that data logs are an attractive medium for modern hackers to exploit.

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The (Recent) History of Self-Supervised Learning

By Christian Wiens | Jul 7, 2020

Real unsupervised AI spots security issues sooner and predicts future behavior more accurately than older first- and second-wave solutions. Self-supervised AI technology draws on an understanding of the fundamental nature of the network where it lives, an understanding that isn’t possible with supervised-AI.

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