Zero Day Attacks

Webinar On Demand: Stopping Novel Attacks – Secure Your Business Against Unknown Threats

Blog, Cybersecurity News, Third-Wave AI, Threat Detection, Webinar, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

Hosted by Mark Ehr, Senior Consulting Analyst for 451 Research Advisors and Igor Mezic, Chief Scientist and CTO for MixMode on Tuesday, November 1st at 1pm EST / 10am PST, they will discuss why security analytics needs to include advanced Third-Wave AI, which autonomously learns normal behavior and adapts to constantly changing network environments, to address the next generation of cyberthreats and increase SOC productivity.

451 Research Finds Self-Learning Technology to Address Cybersecurity Blind Spots and Reduce Analyst Burnout

Blog, Cyber Threats, Cybersecurity News, MixMode News, Network Detection and Response, Network Security, Predictive AI, Rules-Based Cybersecurity, Self-Supervised AI, SIEM, SOC, Third-Wave AI, Threat Detection, Uncategorized, Unsupervised AI, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

In the report, 451 Research explains why security analytics needs to include advanced Third-Wave AI, which autonomously learns normal behavior and adapts to constantly changing network environments, to address the next generation of cyberthreats and increase SOC productivity.

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

Blog, False Positives, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

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.

Updated for 2022: What are Zero-Day Exploits and Attacks and How IS AI Being Used to Combat Them?

Blog, Unsupervised AI, Zero Day Attacks / By Russell Gray

Zero-day attacks are considered the number one cybersecurity threat to company networks large and small. Understand what they are, why it’s so hard to detect them, and how artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to solve this modern problem.

Zero-day Exploit Discoveries Hit Record Numbers in 2021

Blog, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

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.

Local U.S. Governments and Municipalities at Risk of Foreign Nation Cyber Attacks

Blog, Cyber Threats, Cybersecurity News, Network Security, Ransomware, Third-Wave AI, Threat Detection, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

Experts have warned that the Russia-Ukraine conflict poses an unprecedented cyber risk for U.S. organizations as well as State and local governments and municipalities.

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

Blog, Cybersecurity News, MixMode News, Third-Wave AI, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

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.

Log4j: the Latest Zero-Day Exploit to Log Jam Cybersecurity

Blog, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

Log4j is the latest example of a zero-day exploit to be discovered and put a big part of the industry into chaos. Given its wide adoption by developers, the impact of the log4j exploit is quite broad and will take a tremendous amount of time to resolve.

Dependence on Log Data | The Limitations, Hidden Costs, and Additive Nature of SIEM

Blog, Data Breach, Log Data, SIEM, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

ou may be surprised to learn that log data is proprietary to each security platform vendor. There is no standard format or even a standard labeling mechanism. Your data only has context within the parameters of your SIEM vendor.

Dependence on Log Data | An Increasing Vulnerability to Threat Actors

Blog, Log Data, Whitepaper, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

How sure are you that log files represent the best source of information to base your entire Cybersecurity program upon? Log data is the cornerstone of every traditional cybersecurity platform including SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), UEBA (User and Entity Behavior Analytics), and xDR (Detection and Response).

10 Eye-Opening Data Breach Statistics (and How You Can Better Protect Your Network)

Blog, Data Breach, Data Privacy, Ransomware, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

While we’re seeing more data breaches than in years past, being proactive can make an enormous difference. Head-in-sand is not the optimal position for any modern organization with a network-based infrastructure. Education about the nature of modern data breaches is a great place to start.

DarkReading: Superhero Loki Lurks Like a Zero-Day Threat

Blog, Cybersecurity News, MixMode News, Zero Day Attacks / By Matt Shea

Just like the SOC analyst, the TVA has to find these threats and remove them as quickly as possible. Let’s say you are tasked with being this TVA agent and are told you need to search all the timelines (an almost infinite number of them) and find all the Loki variants to have them removed.

What is Zero-Day Attack Identification?

Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

Zero-day attacks are among the most challenging Cybersecurity threats SOC teams face on a regular basis. These “never before seen” threats can surprise organizations even if they are protected by traditional Cybersecurity systems.

The Top 5 Zero-Day Attacks of the 21st Century

Blog, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

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?

New Video: MixMode Cyber Anomaly Detection Platform

Blog, CISO, Context-Aware AI, MixMode News, Network Detection and Response, Network Security, NTA, Predictive AI, Self-Supervised AI, SIEM, SOAR, SOC, Third-Wave AI, Threat Detection, UEBA, Video, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

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.

The Top 5 Considerations That Should Guide Your SOC Strategy in 2021 and Beyond

Blog, CISO, Context-Aware AI, Data Breach, Network Detection and Response, Network Security, Self-Supervised AI, SIEM, SOC, Third-Wave AI, Threat Detection, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

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.

SIEM Cannot Detect (and Ignores) Zero-Day Attacks

Adversarial AI, Blog, Data Breach, Network Detection and Response, Network Security, Ransomware, SIEM, Threat Detection, Unsupervised AI, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

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.

Why Traditional Cybersecurity Tools Cannot Defend Against Zero-Day and No Signature Attacks

Blog, NTA, Ransomware, SIEM, UEBA, XDR, Zero Day Attacks / By Christian Wiens

In our newest whitepaper, “Why Traditional Cybersecurity Tools Cannot Defend Against Zero-Day and No Signature Attacks,” 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 six to eight months and how modern, contextually-aware AI overcomes the limitations of traditional cybersecurity solutions.

A Modern SOC Should Not Be Entirely Dependent On Human Operators and Their Personal Experience

Blog, False Positives, SIEM, SOC, Third-Wave AI, Zero Day Attacks / By Geoffrey Coulehan, Head of Sales

A modern SOC should not be entirely dependent on human operators and their personal experience. The issue has been a foundational problem with not only the methodologies used by SOCs for the past 15 to 20 years, but it should be questioned whether the problem is actually compounded by the technology itself.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution – AI, Quantum, and IoT Impacts on Cybersecurity

Blog, Network Security, Predictive AI, Self-Supervised AI, Threat Detection, Zero Day Attacks / By Geoffrey Coulehan, Head of Sales

The next cybersecurity challenge lies with the advances in quantum computing that are set to revolutionize tech while simultaneously equipping threat actors with a new arsenal of cyberweapons.