Security News

FireEye Launches Public Bug Bounty Program on Bugcrowd
2020-08-13 10:23

FireEye this week announced that its Bugcrowd-powered bug bounty program has become public, for all registered researchers to participate. The program, which has been running privately on the crowd-sourced bug hunting platform for a while, welcomes all Bugcrowd researchers interested in identifying vulnerabilities in a broad range of FireEye websites, including those of subsidiaries and localized domains.

PepsiCo CISO Joins FireEye Board
2020-08-11 19:51

FireEye on Tuesday announced that Sara Andrews, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer at PepsiCo, has been appointed to the FireEye board of directors. Prior to PepsiCo, Andrews served as Verizon's Chief Network Security Officer, where she led organizations responsible for the security of all Verizon wireline networks serving the company's residential, small business and enterprise customers.

Brad Maiorino joins FireEye as Chief Strategy Officer
2020-06-21 22:30

FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, announced the appointment of Brad Maiorino as Chief Strategy Officer, reporting to FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia. As Chief Strategy Officer at FireEye, Maiorino will play a key role in influencing the FireEye & Mandiant product and solutions strategy based on customer needs.

Druva and FireEye enable customers to instantly monitor, analyze, detect and respond to insider threats
2020-06-04 23:45

Druva announced the launch of an API integration with FireEye extending visibility and control over endpoint backup data to monitor, analyze, detect and respond to data breaches from ransomware, data theft, and insider attacks. Joint customers of Druva and the FireEye Helix platform can now dramatically reduce incident response times, minimize downtime, and accelerate recovery from protected backup data.

By Light and FireEye incorporate threat intelligence into cyberspace attacks
2020-06-04 01:30

By Light Professional IT Services and the intelligence-led security company, FireEye announced the integration of Mandiant Threat Intelligence within By Light's Cyberoperations Enhanced Network and Training Simulators. As today's cyberspace landscape features an increasing number of well-funded, highly organized, and complex adversaries, the use of real-world threat intelligence in training and exercises has become crucial to defending effectively against cyberspace attacks.

FireEye enables orgs to respond to security incidents faster with flexible and customizable modules
2020-05-21 01:15

FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, introduced a new Innovation Architecture behind FireEye Endpoint Security, including the availability of several new modules for protection, investigation and response. "Through our new framework, FireEye makes an important shift in feature deployment. Now we can create and deploy these custom protection, investigation and response modules in just days - versus several months - in response to changes in the threat landscape."

FireEye Cloudvisory: Control center for multi-cloud security management
2020-05-14 03:00

FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, announced the availability of FireEye Cloudvisory, a control center for cloud security management across any security environment - private, public and hybrid. Fully integrated into the broader FireEye cloud security portfolio, Cloudvisory now offers customers instant deployment across their cloud infrastructures, and further capabilities in security analytics through FireEye Helix and advanced threat detection through FireEye Detection On Demand.

Public ICS Hacking Tools Make It Easier to Launch Attacks: FireEye
2020-03-25 12:35

The cybersecurity firm told SecurityWeek that its Mandiant Intelligence team tracks nearly 100 tools that can be used to exploit vulnerabilities in ICS or interact with industrial equipment in an effort to support intrusions or attacks. Of the ICS hacking tools tracked by FireEye - the company calls them ICS cyber operation tools - 28% are designed for discovering ICS devices on a network and 24% for software exploitation.

FireEye expands Helix platform capabilities and launches FireEye Messaging Security
2020-02-25 02:00

FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, announced new cloud security innovations at RSA Conference 2020, including expanded capabilities within the FireEye Helix platform, as well as FireEye Messaging Security - a new offering that protects collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams and Slack. Expanded analytics capabilities are available to FireEye Helix customers at no additional cost.

FireEye Spotted Over 500 New Malware Families in 2019
2020-02-21 13:56

FireEye's incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families last year, the company revealed in its M-Trends 2020 report released this week. FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and it tracked a total of 1,268 malware families.