New Whitepaper: How Predictive AI is Disrupting the Cybersecurity Industry

by Christian Wiens on May 12, 2020

As cybersecurity evolves and bad actors become more sophisticated, organizations must also evolve. Security teams must take a more proactive approach to Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) in order to avoid the next generation of hacks and breaches to ensure a sound cybersecurity posture. Standard industry solutions include so-called artificial intelligence models that are fundamentally flawed in that they compare network behavior exclusively against a historical baseline analysis that is created after months data is aggregated, stored, and analyzed.

Having an accurate, forward looking, and evolving baseline of “normal” network behavior with which to measure anomalous activity against is the only reliable and accurate approach when fighting against a slew of new bad actors and attacks. However, a major problem exists for cybersecurity solutions which claim to deliver anomaly detection through AI: The baseline they create and measure against, is based exclusively on historical data which takes months to gather, creates ever increasing false positives, and does not support anomaly detection as network conditions and attackers evolve.

Without an accurate, generative baseline that evolves over time, truly meaningful anomaly detection is impossible.

Read the Whitepaper here: How Predictive AI is Disrupting the Cybersecurity Industry

In contrast to many cybersecurity solutions which are based on Supervised Learning or “second-Wave AI” which requires constant training, human tuning, and historical data, “third-wave AI” solutions (as defined by DARPA), which leverage generative, self-supervised learning, can offer a truly accurate evolving baseline of normal network behavior in real time and predict appropriate future network behavior. This approach allows MixMode to provide extremely accurate anomaly and threat detection, 95% fewer false positives, and truly predictive threat detection.

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.

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We examine the current state of the cybersecurity solutions marketplace:

Moving Beyond First- and Second-Wave AI Solutions, Making Sense of the AI-Enhanced Cybersecurity Market
The Inherent Inefficiency and Inaccuracy of Stand-Alone SIEM Platforms

We also take a look at three security operations center issues negatively impacting Network Traffic Analysis:

The Wasteful Culture of False Positives and the Wasted Potential of Security Analysts
The Human Error Factor
The Shifting Definition of “Baseline”

We consider current research and statistics that help to shape the story of what’s happening in the security platform stratosphere, and share insights from Geoff Coulehan, Head of Strategic Alliances at MixMode about game-changing, third-wave AI in Network Traffic Analysis and cybersecurity.

In addition to serving as the Head of Sales and Strategic Alliances for MixMode, Coulehan has honed his industry expertise over two decades spent examining and improving the continually evolving cybersecurity landscape.