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

By Christian Wiens | February 15, 2022

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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MixMode Platform Release: New Executive Summary Dashboard

By Russell Gray | February 10, 2022

The MixMode Executive Summary Dashboard provides the necessary information and continuous access to critical details that CISO’s and other cybersecurity leaders need to see on a weekly and monthly basis to understand the health of their cybersecurity program.

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Cybersecurity Acronyms: Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup

By Christian Wiens | February 9, 2022

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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Modern Ransomware Attackers Risking Public Safety, Community Infrastructure

By Christian Wiens | February 2, 2022

Ransomware attackers often find government networks to be lucrative sitting targets that are often largely left unprotected against modern threats. As CNN reports, state and local governments tend to lack enough money and personnel to effectively mitigate these threats.

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Video: The Limits of Rules-BasED Cybersecurity Systems

By Christian Wiens | January 26, 2022

MixMode’s CTO and Chief Scientist, Dr. Igor Mezic, discusses the challenges of rules-based cybersecurity systems. He focuses on the workflow issues for security analysts that operate in first and second-wave AI (rules-based) cybersecurity tools.

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5 Critical Factors That Impact an Organization’s Cybersecurity Efficacy

By Christian Wiens | January 19, 2022

It’s no surprise that organizations are pouring resources into their security approaches, from investments into hardware and software and significant increases in Cybersecurity professional hiring. In fact, industry watchers expect organizations globally to contribute to $1.75 trillion in cumulative spending on Cybersecurity between 2021 and 2025.

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How CIOs Will Allocate Budgets in 2022 to Confront Complex Cybersecurity Threats

By Christian Wiens | January 12, 2022

An annual Harvey Nash Group/KPMG survey of CIOs and other IT leaders revealed that companies spent about $15 billion more each week in the early part of 2021 on work-from-home investments, a figure that represents one of the largest upticks in tech investment in history, according to Harvey Nash/KPMG.

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Before You Invest in AI Cybersecurity in 2022, Unravel Misleading Vendor Claims

By Christian Wiens | January 5, 2022

As Forbes reports in the recent article, “The 7 Biggest Artificial (AI) Trends in 2022,” the World Economic Forum identified cybercrime as “potentially posing a more significant risk to society than terrorism” in 2021.

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2021 Highlights: Pushing Through a Pandemic to Deliver Cybersecurity Innovation with Third-Wave AI

By Christian Wiens | December 28, 2021

e at MixMode have accomplished a lot in 2021. As we approach the end of December we thought it would be a good opportunity to take a look back at the year and highlight the stories and news that we believe exemplify our forward momentum in what continues to be a challenging year for all.

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

By Christian Wiens | December 21, 2021

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.

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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.