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Making an Informed Cloud Security Decision

By Christian Wiens | May 11, 2022

Many organizations rely on neural networks driven by machine learning that relies on the accuracy of manually constructed training data. Training data errors lead to overlooked anomalous behavior and, often, mountains of false positive and negative flags that have to be reviewed by human analysts.

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The Limitations of rules-Based Cybersecurity

By Christian Wiens | May 4, 2022

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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The Challenges of Hybrid Cloud Security Approaches

By Christian Wiens | April 27, 2022

It is increasingly more common for organizations to adopt cloud computing in a hybrid fashion, keeping some on-premise infrastructure in place while moving select data to the cloud. While this approach may save on costs in the short term, hybrid solutions complicate organizational security postures.

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

By Christian Wiens | April 21, 2022

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

By Christian Wiens | April 19, 2022

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.

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WHITEPAPER: Authentication Does Not Equal Zero Trust

By Christian Wiens | March 30, 2022

Many vendor claims are unclear as to what they’re promising in this space, but they are quite insistent that without Zero Trust network architectures, organizations are at great risk for data breaches and other network sabotage.

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MixMode Raises $45 Million in Series B Funding Round Led by PSG to Automate Cyberattack Detection

By Christian Wiens | March 23, 2022

MixMode is excited to announce that we have raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG with participation from our existing investor Entrada Ventures.

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

By Christian Wiens | March 9, 2022

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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MixMode Named a Top 10 Best Tech Startup in Santa Barbara for the Third Year in a Row

By Christian Wiens | March 3, 2022

MixMode has been recognized as one of the best tech startups in Santa Barbara in 2022. This is the third year that MixMode has been recognized by The Tech Tribune for this honor. 

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

By Christian Wiens | February 24, 2022

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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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.