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What is Zero-Trust in Cybersecurity?

By Christian Wiens | September 8, 2021

orrester coined the term zero-trust in 2010 to describe the idea that nothing is inherently safe and that everything must be continuously verified. You may have heard the motto, “Trust nothing; verify everything.” This is a great way to think about zero-trust in Cybersecurity. 

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DarkReading: Superhero Loki Lurks Like a Zero-Day Threat

By Matt Shea | September 1, 2021

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.

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What is Zero-Day Attack Identification?

By Christian Wiens | August 25, 2021

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.

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MixMode Featured In Latest Gartner Report on Emerging Trends in Network Detection and Response

By Christian Wiens | August 17, 2021

MixMode announced today their inclusion in the 2021 Gartner report, ‘Emerging Trends: Top Use Cases for Network Detection and Response.’ The report, available only to Gartner users, provides in depth analysis on the top four use cases driving the NDR market including detection, hunting, forensics and response, as well as NDR development recommendations for product leaders.

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What is SIEM and How Has It Evolved?

By Christian Wiens | August 11, 2021

Security information and event management (SIEM) is a security management approach that combines two core functions: SIM (security information management) and SEM (security event management).

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Ransomware: The $20 Billion Cybersecurity Problem

By Christian Wiens | August 4, 2021

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.

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

By Christian Wiens | July 29, 2021

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?

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In Case You Missed It: 2 Cyber Expert Webinars Now Available On-Demand

By Christian Wiens | July 27, 2021

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.

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What is Anomaly Detection in Cybersecurity?

By Christian Wiens | July 21, 2021

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.

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Webinar Recap: Tool Sprawl – The Trillion Dollar Problem in Cybersecurity

By Christian Wiens | July 15, 2021

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?

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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.