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Silicon Valley Needs to Step up Their Security: This Week in AI

By Ana Mezic | July 19, 2019

Silicon Valley Has Let Its Cybersecurity Guard Down According to an article by Brian O’Keefe for Fortune Magazine, Silicon Valley isn’t paying enough attention when it comes to threats posed by state-sponsored hackers.At least, that was the conclusion a group of cybersecurity experts came to in a discussion at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo., on Tuesday.“I […]

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AI-Enabled Cybersecurity Is Necessary for Defense: Capgemini Report

By Christian Wiens | July 17, 2019

850 senior executives from Information Security, Cybersecurity, and IT Operations in seven industries across ten countries were recently surveyed by consulting and technology services firm, Capgemini, in their “Reinventing Cybersecurity with Artificial Intelligence” report. The goal being to understand today’s benefits, complexities, and levels of implementation of AI in cybersecurity across IT (information technology), OT (operation […]

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Artificial Intelligence Gaining Popularity Overseas: This Week In AI

By Ana Mezic | July 12, 2019

AI is Picking Up Speed Overseas An online study found that over a quarter of respondents in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia would prefer their cybersecurity to be managed by AI.  The study interviewed more than 10,000 people in EMEAi and was conducted by Palo Alto Networks and YouGov alongside Dr Jessica Barker, an expert in the human nature of […]

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Web App Security: Necessary, Vulnerable, and In Need of AI for Security

By Kyle Pullman | July 11, 2019

Web applications are a necessary part of doing business in 2019. Walk into any department in any company — large or small — and employees likely have several web app browsers on their screen that are making their job function easier. We are talking the sites that modern day businesses depend on: Google Cloud, Slack, WordPress, DropBox, PayPal, Shopify, Salesforce…and the list goes […]

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3 Articles You May Have Missed Last Month

By Ana Mezic | July 1, 2019

Wow. Did June go by as fast for you as it did for us? Closing out Q2 and heading into a short Holiday week (Happy 4th of July everyone), we wanted to share 3 of our top articles from last month that are definitely worth a quick read – whether it be from your office […]

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Hackers are Starting to Use AI: This Week In AI

By Ana Mezic | June 28, 2019

Here’s Why It’s Time To Prepare for AI Wielding Hackers  “The war against cyber attackers isn’t a fair battle. Companies have to defend against all attacks, while the attackers only have to get through once. And it’s about to get much, much worse,” writes Marie Korolov for Data Center Knowledge, effectively explaining the biggest roadblock for […]

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The Endpoint Gap in Corporate Security

By Kyle Pullman | June 26, 2019

“The biggest misconception people have about endpoints is that they have an idea of what their endpoints really are. The security industry has rightly taught defense-in-depth & blocking. However, too many companies rely solely on that concept, and aren’t prepared for what happens when something is breached. That breach, when it happens, will take place […]

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Machine Learning vs Artificial Intelligence: This Week in AI

By Ana Mezic | June 21, 2019

What’s the difference between ML and AI in Cybersecurity? Many don’t understand how AI works in terms of cybersecurity, despite most agreeing that it is necessary to implement it going forward. According to a recent survey by Webroot, nearly 75 percent of IT professionals stated they intend to incorporate more artificial intelligence (AI) solutions into their cybersecurity […]

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3 Reasons Why Managed Service Providers Should Consider Focusing on Cybersecurity

By Kyle Pullman | June 20, 2019

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) today have a tremendous opportunity to help solve the cybersecurity knowledge gap for many small- to mid-market businesses. We’ve all read the “X-number of shortage of cybersecurity professionals by 2020” in the major publications. For example, CNBC’s article, “A serious shortage of cybersecurity experts could cost companies hundreds of millions of […]

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How Important is AI? This Week in AI

By Ana Mezic | June 14, 2019

Is AI Fundamental to the future of Cybersecurity? Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are words we hear thrown around a lot, often arbitrarily in the cybersecurity space. However, they are instrumental to the development of our industry. According to this article by Sam Bocetta for CSO,if you turn a blind eye to AI and you will […]

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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.