Christian Wiens

Christian Wiens is Director of Marketing at MixMode. He has 10+ years of experience as a cybersecurity professional. He has his BA from The University of California, Berkeley and resides in Austin, TX.

Webinar: Achieving Security at Big Data Scale – Why Organizations are Struggling with Legacy Tools and The Promise of Generative AI

Cybersecurity veterans discuss the challenges large enterprises in the Fortune 1000 face in scaling security monitoring and threat detection across big data environments.

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Unleashing the Power of Self-Supervised AI: Insights from 451 Research Report on MixMode’s Dynamic Threat Detection and Response

In an era where cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, it is crucial for organizations to stay ahead of attacks. By leveraging the power of self-supervised AI, MixMode offers a game-changing solution that can revolutionize threat detection and response capabilities.

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Verizon’s Annual Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) Shines Spotlight on Ransomware Trends & Insider Threats

New research from Verizon reveals that ransomware is responsible for a sizable percentage of all recorded security incidents. Despite the alarming statistics raised in the report, the tech giant warns, we’re likely to see continued growth in the number of ransomware attacks against organizations.

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Top 5 Takeaways from the CISA 2023-2025 Strategic Plan That the Cybersecurity Community Should Know About

CISA identifies goals for the strategy as spearheading “the national effort to ensure the defense and resilience of cyberspace,” helping partners protect critical infrastructure, and supporting stronger “whole-of-nation operational collaboration and information sharing.” The strategy also outlines internal CISA goals focused on unification within the agency.

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Forbes Technology Council: The Cybersecurity Implications Of ChatGPT And Third Wave Generative AI Models

Although generative models have been in development for some time, ChatGPT’s public release has raised important questions about the nature of these models, their potential impact, and their role in fields like cybersecurity. To understand their significance, Dr. Mezic explores the history and development of AI, distinguishes between the different waves of AI technology, and ultimately the implications for cybersecurity.

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Balancing Security Spend and Business Priorities

A more holistic approach that encompasses oversight of critical apps, data, and processes related to business function could reduce risk while saving money, according to a recent CIO article. In other words, shifting from a risk assessment approach that primarily focuses on IT systems to a more business-oriented approach can help companies uncover cost savings while improving their overall security posture.

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Persistent Ransomware Attacks on Cities Underscores Need to Upgrade to Real-Time Threat Visibility

Municipalities, in particular, are increasingly being targeted by ransomware attackers. A recent report showed that ransomware attacks on local governments increased by 70% for 34-58% of those surveyed, and that those attacks were more expensive than ever, with five- and six-digit ransom demands becoming the norm.

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The 2 Questions Cybersecurity Clients Ask the Most When Seeking a Trustworthy Provider

When businesses trust providers to address needs like cybersecurity, they are entrusting vital intellectual property, the private data of employees, consumers, and others, and often, the very infrastructure the business requires to operate.

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Matt Shea, Chief Strategy Officer at MixMode, Joins Forbes Technology Council

Forbes Technology Council Is an Invitation-Only Community for World-Class CIOs, CTOs and Technology Executives. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Matt Shea, Chief Strategy Officer at MixMode, has been accepted into Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives. Shea was vetted and selected by a review committee based on the depth and

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MixMode Selects CrowdStrike as Cybersecurity Partner, Joins CrowdStrike Elevate Partner Program

MixMode, the only generative AI-based real-time, risk detection platform in cybersecurity, announced today that it has joined the CrowdStrike Elevate Partner Program, an elite network of global partners that deliver the integrations and security expertise required to combat today’s adversaries.

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How the City of Phoenix Rapidly Modernized its Cybersecurity Defenses

The City of Phoenix’s cybersecurity leaders, Shannon Lawson and Mitch Kohlbecher, have been at the forefront of adopting new technology to solve the fundamental problem perplexing cybersecurity leaders everywhere: how can we reduce our ever-expanding, costly and inefficient cyber tool footprint while also increasing the effectiveness of our cyber defenses and the productivity of our lean SOC team?

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Latest Mass Ransomware Attack May Mark New, Slow-Rolling Approach By Threat Actors

A new mass ransomware attack is making headlines. As the Washington Post reports in a recent article, “The latest mass ransomware attack has been unfolding for nearly two months,” major U.S. corporations have fallen victim to an attack that may have origins dating back to late January.

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What Legacy and Bundled Cybersecurity Tools Miss in Large Network Environments

The main challenge many of the cybersecurity products on the market today struggle to overcome is the difficulty of monitoring multi-cloud environments. Many are only capable of handling pieces of one environment rather than giving an enterprise visibility across all of their environments. This leaves costly gaps in their security posture and significantly increases the likelihood of an attack.

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MixMode Welcomes John Phillips as VP Federal Sales

MixMode, the leader in AI-driven network security, announces hiring John Phillips as VP of Federal Sales. Phillips will oversee the continued growth of MixMode’s federal business and adoption of the MixMode platform by federal partners, and he will be focused on accelerating MixMode’s triple-digit growth in 2021 and 2022.

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Four Inc. Announces Partnership with MixMode to Offer Advanced AI Cybersecurity Solutions to Government Agencies

Four Inc., a federal aggregator, has partnered with MixMode, a leading provider of next-generation Cybersecurity solutions, to provide MixMode’s Advanced Threat Detection Platform to government agencies through Four Inc.’s boutique aggregation program.

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SANS First Look Report: Self-Supervised Learning Cybersecurity Platform for Threat Detection

The SANS Institute recently released an analyst First Look Report on MixMode titled, “Self-Supervised Learning Cybersecurity Platform for Threat Detection.” Matt Bromiley, Senior Security Analyst at SANS and author of the report, explores the barriers SOCs face to conquering the vast amounts of data generated by modern enterprises and the solutions that MixMode provides for detecting and investigating threats including our utilization of self-supervised AI for cybersecurity.

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