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MixMode Product Updates, Stories on Cybersecurity, AI, and Everything in Between.

Generative Unsupervised Learning vs. Discriminative Clustering Technology: Which Prevents Zero-Day Attacks?

By Ana Mezic | December 5, 2019

Knowing the difference between Discriminative and Generative Unsupervised Learning can tell you a lot about the effectiveness of a cybersecurity solution’s artificial intelligence, for example, whether or not that security solution can perform actions like identifying and stopping a zero-day attack.

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How to Use Your Baseline for Network Security

By Ana Mezic | December 3, 2019

This is the final article in a three-part series on Network Baselining. Read the first two articles in the series here:
1) An Introduction to Baselining Technology
2) How to Create a Baseline for Your Network

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How to Create a Baseline for Your Network

By Ana Mezic | November 26, 2019

We separate the parts that are wavelike and we separate the parts that are stochastic. Then, five minutes later we look again and compare what we’ve seen historically and what the AI has predicted to happen to the current state of the network. If they are different, that’s an anomaly detected.

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Case Study: MixMode AI Detects Attack not Found on Threat Intel

By Russell Gray | November 21, 2019

In October, 2019 a MixMode customer experienced an incident where an external entity attacked a web server located in their DMZ, compromised it, and then pivoted internally through the DMZ to attempt access of a customer database. While the attacker was successful in penetrating the customer’s network, MixMode was able to detect the event before they were successful in penetrating the customer database.

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An Introduction to Baselining Technology

By Ana Mezic | November 19, 2019

This is the first installment of the three part blog series on creating baselines of network behavior to improve your security stance. Here we will walk you through the basics of baselining technology.

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What’s New in MixMode: November 2019

By Bryan Elliot | November 14, 2019

Today we announced a small but exciting update to MixMode’s Network Traffic Analysis platform! We have made performance and usability updates to the indicators page below: The Indicators page has been completely re-architected for a tremendous improvement in speed and performance. I urge you to go and try it for yourself right now – you […]

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Multi-Stream Cybersecurity and How it Can Save Your Business from a Zero-Day Attack

By Ana Mezic | November 12, 2019

The best way to detect threats across an entire network in the quickest manner is to have complete visibility over every part of that network with a multi-stream platform which can incorporate not only network data, but Cloud Data and SIEM logs as well.

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Our Top 3 Insights on Alert Fatigue in Cybersecurity

By Christian Wiens | November 7, 2019

Alert fatigue is a top pain point in cybersecurity right now. Security operations center (SOC) analysts are chasing an overwhelming amount of false positive alerts taking time away from analyzing and remediating actual security threats. According to a recent study…

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MixMode On-Premise Now Available

By Jenny Sassi | November 5, 2019

The most popular form of in house deployment of MixMode is to deploy our OVA virtual appliance on an existing internal VMware ESXi infrastructure.

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Dynamic and Flexible AI for Network Security

By Christian Wiens | October 31, 2019

Third-Wave artificial intelligence (also known as Wave 3 AI), is making life a whole lot easier for security systems administrators. It seems like we just passed the milestones of incorporating AI into network security. But Dr. Igor Mezic and others in this field have made huge strides in the last year. In his new whitepaper on AI for Network Security, Dr. Mezic describes how Third-Wave AI brings flexibility and intuition into the world of machine learning.

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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.