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.

Can You Predict a Cyber Attack Before It Happens?

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

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.

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

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

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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The Limitations of rules-Based Cybersecurity

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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Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Why You Need to Consolidate Your Cybersecurity Approach

When it comes to cybersecurity, more is not always better. As new solutions have emerged in response to rapidly evolving technology and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, SOCs have added tool after tool to their arsenals.

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Video: Why a U.S. City Chose MixMode and Decommissioned their UBA Platform

MixMode’s Head of Sales and Alliances, Geoff Coulehan, shares how MixMode was able to identify critical risk factors coming from inside bad actors that had gone undetected by a large U.S. city’s SIEM and UBA platforms despite their multi-year deployments and their decision to decommission their User Behavior Analytics (UBA) platform. 

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Better Anomaly Detection Is Key to Solving the False Positive Problem Once and for All

Keeping up with security alerts can be a Herculean task without the right tools on board. Security teams face more than 11,000 alerts per day on average, according to industry analysts — including thousands of false positives triggered by legacy security solutions.

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VIDEO: The Multiplying costs and challenges of Data Storage and Retention in Legacy Cybersecurity Platforms

MixMode’s Head of Sales and Alliances, Geoff Coulehan, discusses the data retention cost and challenges that arise when legacy cybersecurity platforms require historical data to be organized in a proprietary format for after-the-fact investigation processes.

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Forbes: Comparing Legacy Rules-Based Cybersecurity Platforms And AI-Based Platforms

Chief Scientist and CTO for MixMode, Igor Mezic, wrote this article for Forbes magazine on the advantages of moving away from a legacy rule-based cybersecurity platform to a third-wave AI platform that can better detect zero-day threats.

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Cybersecurity Acronyms: Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup

Trying to decipher Cybersecurity jargon can feel like trying to make sense out of a spoonful of alphabet soup. Is your SIEM equipped with sufficient NTA? What about your XDR? Or wait, was it NDR? What’s IRM, anyway? And whatever happened to UEBA?

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