FireEye
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US31816Q1013 |
| founding | February 2004 |
| Seat | Milpitas , United States |
| management | Kevin Mandia ( CEO ), Travis Reese (President), Michael Berry ( CFO ), Grady Summers ( CTO ) |
| Number of employees | 3100 |
| sales | $ 623 million |
| Branch | software |
| Website | www.fireeye.de |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
FireEye, Inc. is a publicly traded company based in Milpitas , California, USA, that provides network security software and services. It had around 30 employees in 2006, over 400 in 2012, over 1,000 in 2013 and around 3,200 in 2016. It gained notoriety, among other things, with the discovery of several zero-day gaps in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and participation in investigations of and actions against several botnets .
On June 15, 2016, Kevin Mandia took over operational management as CEO . Its predecessor was the previous McAfee - CEO David DeWalt.
product
The main product called "FireEye Malware Protection System" is attack detection software . It works on the basis of data traffic analysis using signatures and heuristic methods to identify suspicious behavior and then tries to reconstruct a compromise by replaying it against a sandbox . It is marketed as a revolutionary solution against advanced malware such as advanced persistent threats and zero-day exploits .
history
The company was founded in February 2004 by former Sun Microsystems engineer Ashar Aziz with 6.45 million US dollars in capital from Sequoia Capital , Juniper Networks and Norwest Venture Partners in Menlo Park ( Silicon Valley ) and contributed in 2006 first product on the market. The venture capitalists initially included In-Q-Tel , the investment team of the US foreign intelligence service CIA.
The company went public in September 2013 . After FireEye agreed a “strategic alliance” with the company Mandiant , founded in 2004, in April 2012 and subsequently offered joint products, it took over these on December 30, 2013 for almost one billion US dollars, partly in shares and money. It developed a system for investigating attacks. In 2014, the company nPulse Technologies was bought for 60 million US dollars and shares worth another 10 million US dollars , also after prior collaboration. It developed a tool for the subsequent analysis of data traffic in the event of an attack. On January 20, 2016, FireEye announced the acquisition of iSIGHT Partners, a threat intelligence company. In 2015, FireEye confirmed vulnerabilities in its HX-series (FireEye Endpoint Security) gateway appliance. Also in 2015, an employee of the Heidelberg IT company ERNW demonstrated a vulnerability in the FireEyes Malware Protection System; FireEye denied this and responded with a warning and an injunction.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management . FireEye, accessed January 6, 2017 .
- ↑ a b FireEye 2015 Form 10-K Report ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 24, 2016
- ↑ a b Ellen Messmer (NetworkWorld), May 8, 2006: Start-up FireEye debuts with 'virtual-machine' security approach
- ↑ Jordan Robertson (Bloomberg), November 28, 2012: Former McAfee Chief DeWalt Named FireEye CEO, Aims for 2013 IPO
- ↑ Fabian Scherschel, November 11, 2013: Zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer exploited for attacks
- ↑ Ronald Eikenberg, February 14, 2014: Attacks via zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer
- ↑ Martin Holland, April 27, 2014: Internet Explorer: Microsoft warns of zero-day exploit
- ^ Gregg Keizer (Computerworld), November 26, 2008: Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming
- ↑ Jacqui Cheng (Ars Technica), November 11, 2009: Researchers' well-aimed stone takes down Goliath botnet
- ↑ Dennis Fisher (Threatpost), March 18, 2011: Microsoft, FireEye Take Down Notorious Rustock Botnet
- ↑ Damon Poeter (PCMag), July 18, 2012: A Fifth of the World's Spam Dries Up as Grum Botnet Goes Down
- ↑ Kevin Mandia succeeds David DeWalt at FireEye. Retrieved September 30, 2016 .
- ^ InformationWeek Dark Reading News, November 19, 2009: In-Q-Tel Joins Forces With FireEye To Fight Cyberthreats
- ↑ crunchbase.com: Ashar Aziz
- ↑ Julie Bort (Business Insider), May 7, 2014: FIREYE: How A Red-Hot Wall Street Darling Turned Into One Of The Biggest Disasters On The Market
- ↑ Dorothee Wiegand (heise Security News), January 4th, 2014: Billion deal: Security company FireEye takes over Mandiant
- ↑ Ron Miller (TechCrunch), May 6, 2014: FireEye Buys nPulse Technologies For $ 60M + To Beef Up Network Security Suite
- ↑ Jürgen Hill (Computerwoche), January 21, 2016: FireEye buys threat intelligence provider iSIGHT
- ↑ FireEye asks users to update their endpoint security devices
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/gefaehrliche-luecke-bei-fireeye-firmennetze-ausspaehen-mit-zwei-e-mails-1.2640247
