|
The two Silicon Valley companies announced their
partnership as the largest conference aimed at corporate
security buyers gets underway Tuesday in San Francisco.
In an interview ahead of the announcement, FireEye Chief
Executive David DeWalt described the deal as "capability meets
scale."
HP has 5,000 security consultants, many of whom manage security
operations on an outsourced basis for large corporate clients.
Those consultants can now bring in FireEye's technology, which
tests computer commands before they are executed, and the
investigators at Mandiant, which FireEye acquired last year.
Besides serving government and private clients who have been
breached, Mandiant is known for research reports such as one
naming a specific unit in the Chinese People's Liberation Army
for breaching major companies.
Mandiant's main services are expensive, however, and the HP deal
will bring a co-branded version of its services to smaller
companies.
Mike Nefkens, executive vice president of HP Enterprise
Services, said more clients want to analyze and improve their
defense before the next attack, and that the new offerings would
meet that need.
"They don't want to wait until there's an incident," Nefkens
said.
HP also reaches many countries where FireEye has had a smaller
presence, including Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
DeWalt declined to say if the deal was exclusive or give other
terms.
FireEye also said it was expanding the number of companies that
it shared threat information with, including a partnership with
Israeli firewall provider Check Point Software Technologies.
(Editing by Stephen Coates)
[© 2015 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2015 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
 |
|
