Over the past few years, ransomware attacks have become more sophisticated, morphing from spray-and-pray phishing blasts to highly targeted and extremely damaging network-wide infections that can cause days or weeks of downtime for a whole organization.
Zero-Day attacks in Cybersecurity have become weapons of choice at the hands of bad actors over the past several years. But what does this term mean and how has this tactic evolved to become such a prevalent threat?
Over the past couple of months MixMode has teamed up with leading cybersecurity experts for a pair of enterprise-focused webinars to discuss the challenges for both legacy and emerging cybersecurity solutions.
Anomaly detection, the “identification of rare occurrences, items, or events of concern due to their differing characteristics from the majority of the processed data,” allows organizations to track “security errors, structural defects and even bank fraud,” according to DeepAI and described in three main forms of anomaly detection as: unsupervised, supervised and semi-supervised. Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts use each of these approaches to varying degrees of effectiveness in Cybersecurity applications.
The panelists shared that for CISOs sitting in the cyber leadership position, when new systems, platforms, and services are being procured, are they being procured while looking at the whole picture? Or is it a one-off purchase for a single problem or squeaky wheel like, for example, identity management or SIEM?
As SIEM evolved, vendors began bolting on NDR (network detection and response) and NTA (network traffic analysis) to their base SIEM offerings. The hope (and promise) was that these tools would add the real-time security solution that was lacking with SIEM technology.
espite the availability of new technology, companies still have to depend on extracted, aggregated, and normalized historical data to operate. The inherent architecture of legacy solutions diverts focus away from fundamental business problems companies need to address.
Join us for our upcoming webinar on Thursday, July 8th at 11:00 AM (PDT), “Tool Sprawl: The Trillion Dollar Problem in Cybersecurity.” It will be hosted by former CISO of CBRE and Current CEO of 5Q, Don Goldstein, and Matt Shea, MixMode’s Head of Federal. They will discuss and review the trillion dollar problem of tool sprawl, how it was created by vendors and industry analysts intent on selling goods and services that ultimately are failing to defend organizations, and how a new way of looking at cybersecurity can help us overcome it.
A jumble of ineffective, incomplete, extremely expensive platforms that don’t meet the fundamental challenges faced by enterprise SOC teams in the early 2020s is not sustainable.
Dr. Igor Mezic, CTO and Chief Scientist at MixMode and world renowned AI researcher, has joined the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives.
2020 will be remembered most as the year the world was swept up in the COVID pandemic. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find another alarming news story: 2020 was a record breaking year on the Cybersecurity front. There was more data lost in breaches and a higher number of cyber attacks than ever before.
In partnership with Ravenii, our 60-minute talk was hosted by MixMode’s Head of Sales and Alliances, Geoff Coulehan, CEO of Ravenii, Jeff Shipley, and MixMode’s CTO & Chief Scientist, Igor Mezic. They discussed key topics including:
We recently released a new video to better explain how MixMode’s next-generation cybersecurity anomaly detection platform combines the functionality of SIEM, NDR, NTA and UEBA for advanced threat detection, zero day attack identification, false positive alert reduction, forensic investigation and more.
It’s evident that while organizations are spending more and more on legacy cybersecurity solutions, these platforms are not holding up their end of the deal and are not able to proactively defend in a modern, non-signature attack threatscape.
In our upcoming webinar on Tuesday, May 18th, “Why Your Legacy Cyber Platforms Can’t Defend Against Modern Day Attacks,” CEO of RAVENii, Jeff Shipley joins MixMode Head of Sales and Alliances Geoff Coulehan to uncover why the cybersecurity industry is failing to deliver on its promises.
Unfortunately, the majority of cybersecurity solutions available today rely on outdated applications for AI. So-called first- and second-wave AI solutions don’t cut it, but few vendors have the technical capabilities and know-how to apply cutting edge, third-wave AI to their platforms.
Organizations are exclusively depending on selective information forwarded to the SIEM. The information that inevitably exists outside the system of record — information relevant for zero-day attacks — is ignored.
Managing a relatively small, stable data store is one thing, but dynamic companies face immense challenges when those circumstances change. Data growth can become unwieldy to safeguard when it has to be carefully prepared through a series of time-consuming, manual processes before the security software can evaluate it.
The following is an excerpt from our recent whitepaper, “Why Traditional Cybersecurity Tools Cannot Defend Against Zero-Day and No Signature Attacks,” in which we dive into how traditional cybersecurity tools work, why this fundamentally limits them from being able to detect zero-day or previously unknown attacks, why the industry standard for breach detection is around …
In the imperfect, real world, where SOC teams actually live, the SIEM log-based approach is fundamentally flawed. In fact, it tends to add more challenge to the workday for SOC teams, not less.
