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Hackers Use Coronavirus Panic to Push Phishing Email Scams

By Ana Mezic | March 17, 2020

Phishing scams feeding off of Coronavirus fears have taken advantage of the current state of national emergency to trick concerned citizens into opening malicious PDF’s claiming to help protect them from the disease.

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Integrating MixMode with DeepInstinct

By Chris Hinshaw | March 12, 2020

One of the biggest challenges facing enterprise security teams today is information overload created by massive tool sprawl. Many security teams are forced to utilize upwards of 40-50 security tools to monitor their environment which is leading to an overabundance of alerts. Recent reports showed that security analysts on average ignore up to 30% of …

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New Video: Why is network data the best source for actionable data in cybersecurity?

By Christian Wiens | March 10, 2020

In a recent blog post, our Head of Customer Success, Russell Gray, outlined the reasons why network data is the best source for actionable data in cybersecurity. He covered the limitations of each of the elements of a typical security stack (SIEM, Endpoint, and Firewall) and the importance of network traffic analysis (NTA) in the …

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5 Cloud Security Challenges Facing Enterprises Today

By Christian Wiens | March 5, 2020

Recent advances in cloud data storage capabilities have changed the way many organizations handle data and conduct business. While the expansion of cloud data represents new opportunities for growth, these organizations will have to confront new and emerging security threats unique to the cloud.  Cloud Storage Security Challenges These five cloud security threats do not …

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The Top 8 Concerns for CISO’s in 2020

By Ana Mezic | March 3, 2020

Although a relatively new corporate position, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are becoming an integral part of the corporate hierarchy as enterprises begin to take security concerns more seriously. It’s a smart move considering that in 2019 security breaches cost companies on average $3.92 million. Now in 2020, CISOs are facing accelerating old threats along with some brand new ones. Here are the top eight CISO concerns of 2020:

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2019 Data Breaches By the Numbers

By Ana Mezic | February 27, 2020

We looked at trusted sources in our industry like the Ponemon Institute, FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (C3), and Global Market Insights to round up the top numbers you should know about data breaches that happened over the past year.

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MixMode Now Supports Amazon VPC Flow logs

By Bryan Elliot | February 25, 2020

We’re excited to announce the general availability of support for Amazon Web Services’ VPC Flow Logs, in the MixMode platform! MixMode prides itself in offering a heterogeneous, “single pane of glass” view and analysis into multiple kinds of workloads, including both On-Premise and Cloud workloads.

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Featured MixMode Client Success Story: Nisos

By Christian Wiens | February 18, 2020

After suffering a possible breach, a client approached the team at Nisos for help evaluating the security of their AWS environment. The client was concerned about possible malicious activity on the part of a former employee who had maintained an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) account after being separated.

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A Well-Equipped Security Team Could Save You Millions of Dollars a Year

By Christian Wiens | February 11, 2020

Data breaches are expensive. By now, most organizations are well aware of this fact. When it comes to resource planning, however, SecOps teams need concrete data to ensure adequate funding is available to handle a breach.

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Network Data: The Best Source for Actionable Data in Cybersecurity

By Russell Gray | February 6, 2020

With the right tool, your network data can now provide you with most valuable, actionable alerts in your security stack. What follows is a discussion of some of the reasons why you may want to look to your network first when trying to identify potential threats or attacks.

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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.