Redefining the Definition of “Baseline” in Cybersecurity
While many security solution providers promise to protect your network by establishing a baseline of your network behavior, the definition of “baseline” can vary widely.
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New Video: How is MixMode Different From Today’s Network Security Tools?
With MixMode in the center of a program, we will make all the other security investments that you’ve made, better. So when you send data to your SIEM, when you send data to your SOAR, you don’t want those products to be overwhelmed with false positive alerts, with data you don’t need.
4 Challenges of Stand-Alone SIEM Platforms
While SIEM is undoubtedly a step up from unmonitored network environments, the inherent nature of today’s SIEM software often falls short in several important ways. SIEM is an outdated solution for adequately protecting networks within the modern threatscape.
Whitepaper: Self-Supervised Learning – AI For Complex Network Security
Artificial Intelligence – or AI – has become a buzzword since it emerged in the 1950s. However, all AI systems are not created equal. In our white paper, “Self-Supervised Learning – AI For Complex Network Security,” Dr. Peter Stephenson explains the different “waves” of artificial intelligence. He uses the DARPA definitions for each of these …
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New Video: How Does MixMode’s AI Evolve Over Time With a Customer’s Environment?
MixMode leaders John Keister, Dr. Igor Mezic, Bryan Elliot, and Russell Gray share how the single algorithm that is the foundation of MixMode’s self-learning AI can understand and continually build a generative baseline of your network without human training.
New Whitepaper: How Predictive AI is Disrupting the Cybersecurity Industry
Our newest whitepaper, “How Predictive AI is Disrupting the Cybersecurity Industry,” evaluates several common SecOps issues around Network Traffic Analysis, explaining why typical solutions are wholly ineffective and represent sunk costs versus added value. We examine how self-supervised learning AI is poised to overcome the SecOps challenges of protecting today’s distributed networks.
What the Clearview AI Breach Tells Us About Cybersecurity Today
The 2020 Clearview AI data breach spawned hundreds of attention-grabbing headlines, and for good reason. The company works closely with law enforcement agencies and other entities by sharing personal information about millions of people, for a variety of purposes. The breach raised many questions about the vulnerability of personal data in general.
The Big Switch: A Lack of Employable Security Professionals Causes Companies to Make the Switch to AI
For the past few years, a major problem has been mounting in the cybersecurity industry: a people shortage. Even before the outbreak of the current global pandemic, enterprises were hurting in the cybersecurity hiring department. Companies are struggling to find employable cybersecurity professionals to handle an ever increasing and evolving number of new threats from …
How a Massive Shift to Working From Home Leaves an Enterprise’s Cybersecurity Vulnerable
Many companies are scrambling to find a way to better protect their now-remote team of employees, and as they do so, hackers will take every advantage to find the weaknesses in these spread-out company networks.
Whitepaper: Actionable Anomalies – How MixMode AI Makes Your Security Data Smarter
In today’s ever evolving cybersecurity landscape there are major problems facing professionals that continue to worsen. These problems center around a shortage of tools advanced enough to understand the baseline of a network in order to pinpoint anomalies and a massive information overload problem in the form of security alerts.
New Video: Why is network data the best source for actionable data in cybersecurity?
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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MixMode Now Supports Amazon VPC Flow logs
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.
Featured MixMode Client Success Story: Nisos
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.
A Well-Equipped Security Team Could Save You Millions of Dollars a Year
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.
Network Data: The Best Source for Actionable Data in Cybersecurity
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.
3 Cyberthreats Facing Federal and State Governments in 2020
Bad actors do not discriminate. Organizations across all sectors are at risk — corporations, non-profits, and increasingly, federal and state government entities. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that security incidents increased by 1,300 percent from 2006 to 2015. This number is growing.
Staying CCPA Compliant with MixMode’s Unsupervised AI
Companies are expected to spend up to $55 billion dollars on efforts to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which is still working out its final rules after going into effect this month.
Wire Data: What is it Good For?
Today’s security and IT teams are increasingly relying on wire data to better secure their networks. A recent report conducted by network performance and security monitoring vendor VIAVI revealed that more network teams than ever consider wire data the most important data source when confronting security incidents.
Our Top 5 Cybersecurity Insights from 2019
This year on the MixMode blog, we have covered headline stories, analyzed every pain point within network security, and shared what we believe to be some of the most innovative solutions to help you analyze network traffic, surface threats and anomalies, and stop attacks using autonomous AI.
How to Use Your Baseline for Network Security
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