CTO Perspective: Machines Protecting Themselves – The Future of Cybersecurity
We interviewed MixMode CTO Dr. Igor Mezic to better understand how machines should be protecting themselves with AI, what roles humans play, and how the DoD and the private sector both benefit from rapid innovation in cybersecurity ... Read More
Not All AI and ML is Created Equal
Throughout the tech community, “artificial intelligence” has become a blanket term often used to describe any computing process that requires little human input. Tasks like routine database functions, scheduled system scans, and software that adds automation to repetitive actions are regularly referred to as AI. In truth, AI can play ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
Hackers Use Coronavirus Panic to Push Phishing Email Scams
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 ... Read More
The Top 8 Concerns for CISO’s in 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 ... Read More
2019 Data Breaches By the Numbers
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
