Mandiant
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| legal form | corporation |
| founding | 2004 |
| Seat | Alexandria , Virginia |
| management | Kevin Mandia, CEO Richard Bejtlich, CSO |
| Number of employees | 300 (2013) |
| sales | US $ 100 million (2012) |
| Branch | Information security |
| Website | mandiant.com |
Mandiant is an American IT security company . It gained public attention with the publication of a report in February 2013 that placed China in a direct connection with cyber espionage . The company was acquired by FireEye , Inc. in 2013 .
history
Red Cliff Consulting was founded in 2004 by Kevin Mandia - who is also Chief Executive Officer - before the company was renamed Mandiant in 2006. In 2011, Mandiant received funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to expand its workforce and business-to-business operations . The company provides IT incident management for large financial institutions and Fortune 100 companies. Revenue increased by 76% from 2011 to over 100 million in 2012 dollars rose. In 2017, an employee's account was hacked.
APT1 espionage report
On February 18, 2013, Mandiant published a report containing evidence of cyber attacks by the People's Liberation Army (or Unit 61398 ). These attacks are believed to have targeted at least 141 organizations in the United States and other English-speaking countries dating back to 2006. The report calls the espionage unit APT1 ( Advanced Persistent Threat ). Although the report is comprehensive, the cyber attack incidents mentioned cannot be linked to either the Chinese government or the People's Liberation Army, which the report claims to be.
A video uploaded to YouTube shows such an intervention by APT1.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.mandiant.com/apt1
- ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060214005168
- ↑ http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-07/mandiant-the-go-to-security-firm-for-cyber-espionage-attacks
- ↑ http://thehackernews.com/2017/07/data-breach-mandiant-fireeye.html
- ↑ http://intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hacking-against-us.html
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/report-ties-100-plus-cyber-attacks-on-us-computers-to-chinese-military/2013/02/19/2700228e-7a6a-11e2-9a75 -dab0201670da_story.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p7FqSav6Ho