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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Focuses on the “People” Part of Cybersecurity

By Christian Wiens | October 5, 2022

October is recognized every year as Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM). Starting in 2004, this important awareness month has been a collaboration between The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) to lead a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise cybersecurity awareness nationally and internationally.

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Case Study: How a Major U.S. City Rapidly Modernized Its Cybersecurity Defenses

By Christian Wiens | September 28, 2022

In our newest case study, “How a Major U.S. City Rapidly Modernized Its Cybersecurity Defenses,” we share how the City cut its cyber tool footprint in half, gained visibility into advanced foreign adversary attacks, and greatly improved the productivity of its SOC staff.

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Webinar On-Demand: State of InfoSec Q3 2022

By Christian Wiens | September 21, 2022

If you missed our recent webinar, State of InfoSec Q3 2022, we now have the full recording available on-demand!

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Webinar: State of InfoSec Q3 2022

By Christian Wiens | September 7, 2022

Are you curious what threats other CISOs are prioritizing right now? Do you know what the most in-demand security talent is right now? Hundreds of Cybersecurity professionals recently responded to MixMode’s nation-wide survey on InfoSec strategies for the end of 2022.

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Updated for 2022: What is Network Traffic Analysis? A Beginner’s Guide

By Christian Wiens | August 31, 2022

87 percent of organizations use network traffic analysis (NTA) tools for threat detection and response according to ESG, an IT strategy firm. In their 2020 study, 43 percent of organizations surveyed said NTA is a “first line of defense” for detecting and responding to threats.

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Can Your Cyber Tools Monitor Any Stream of Data?

By Christian Wiens | August 24, 2022

It’s the open secret no one’s talking about — too many cybersecurity solutions in the marketplace stand no chance of providing comprehensive coverage because they are incapable of handling data arising from all sources. Many available solutions are effectively legacy platforms hiding within fresh marketing packages.

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The Fallacy of “One-Click Remediation”

By Christian Wiens | August 17, 2022

Let’s take a closer look at the false narrative being propagated in the cybersecurity market and explore some more appropriate alternatives. An example of a legacy cyber tool vendor “feature” being touted as an ideal solution to the problem of automatic remediation is reliant on a standard (though rarely used for reasons we will explore in this article) function known as TCP Reset.

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Understanding the Evolution and Impact of AI on Cybersecurity

By Dr. Igor Mezic | August 11, 2022

MixMode’s unsupervised, third-wave AI computes patterns of interaction over many different timescales, contrasting it over the next 5-minute interval with what was seen previously. Should patterns deviate, the platform performs an assessment of the security risk implied in that deviation and presents it to the user.

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Updated for 2022: What is Network Detection and Response (NDR)? A Beginner’s Guide

By Christian Wiens | August 3, 2022

Network detection and response, or NDR, has been established as a key tool for companies seeking to improve their threat response. It has become a network security strategy which developed in response to perceived shortcomings in existing network security systems.

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Customer Case Study: Self-Learning Cyber Defense for Financial Institutions

By Christian Wiens | July 28, 2022

The nation’s largest Financial Services providers are a favorite target for nation-state sponsored and coordinated cyber-attacks. Despite significantly more financial and resource investment in cybersecurity than any other industry, critical infrastructure breaches and novel attacks remain a daily occurrence.

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About MixMode

MixMode is a no-rules Cybersecurity platform, serving large enterprises with big data environments across a variety of industries. MixMode delivers a patented, self-learning platform that acts as the Intelligence Layer℠ to detect both known and unknown attacks, including novel attacks designed to bypass legacy cyber defenses. This is accomplished in real-time, across any cloud or on-premise data stream. Trusted by global entities in banking, public utilities and government sectors, industry cyber leaders rely on MixMode to protect their most critical assets. The platform dramatically improves the efficiency of SOC teams’ previously burdened with writing and tuning rules and manually searching for attacks. The MixMode platform can be deployed remotely, with no appliances, in under an hour with business outcomes evident within days. Backed by PSG and Entrada Ventures, the company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA. Learn more at www.mixmode.ai.