FireEye

MENLO PARK, Calif.—January 22, 2008 — FireEye, Inc., the leader in global anti-botnet protection, today announced that it has signed on two of the industry's most renowned security experts and technologists. Fengmin Gong joins FireEye as chief security content officer and Stuart Staniford joins as chief scientist. The addition of these two security veterans reinforces the company's technical leadership in anti-botnet protection and makes FireEye one of the hottest start-ups of the year. As chief security content officer, Fengmin Gong will lead the development and management of FireEye's security initiatives and evangelize FireEye's security offerings and how the company can help eradicate the escalating growth of criminal botnet activities. As chief scientist, Stuart Staniford will drive the development and growth of FireEye's anti-botnet protection solutions.

"FireEye has attracted the most innovative talent in the industry," said Ashar Aziz, CEO, FireEye. "With the addition of Fengmin and Stu, FireEye has the most experienced management team in the security space. Both individuals are well respected leaders and researchers who have consistently developed successful security solutions for enterprises. Their breadth of management and market knowledge will be invaluable to FireEye. We are very pleased that Fengmin and Stu have joined the company."

Fengmin Gong brings over 25 years of security expertise and experience to FireEye. Most recently, Gong was a founder and chief scientist at Palo Alto Networks where he built the team that was responsible for threat research, content-based detection, and security content creation. Before Palo Alto Networks, Gong was the chief scientist and director of Intrusion Detection Technologies at McAfee where he led the research and development program supporting the IntruShield lines of IPS products. Prior to McAfee, Gong was the founder and director of Intrusion Detection Technologies at IntruVert Networks which was acquired by McAfee. Before IntruVert, Gong was a director at Advanced Networking Research.

Gong has also held several positions in academia, including North Carolina State University, Washington University, and MCNC (Microelectronics Center of North Carolina). Gong earned his M.S. in computer science from Washington University, St. Louis in 1988 and his doctorate in computer science in 1992. He is a graduate of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China where he completed his Bachelor of Science in computer organization and architecture and Masters in computer science. He has also written and contributed to over 40 technical papers in the areas of network intrusion detection and prevention, anomaly detection, cryptographic protection, and networking.

"I am pleased to join FireEye at a time when the company is experiencing tremendous growth and demand for their Botwall™ solution," said Fengmin Gong, chief security content officer. "Cyber criminals band unsuspecting computers together to create a hijacked ‘botnet' network to commit Internet crimes. These crimes are not only causing direct productivity, data, and financial losses to businesses, but are also seriously eroding the consumer confidence in the online world. FireEye's solutions provide the complete botnet intelligence, from spread of infection to criminal activities, to enable effective protections."

Stuart Staniford brings over 13 years of experience in security, ranging from research to product design and development, standards work, security consulting, intrusion monitoring, marketing and sales to FireEye. In one of his first engagements with FireEye, Staniford lends his expertise in a presentation at the Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop, at 3:50 p.m., January 22, 2008 in Honolulu. Entitled "Uncovering Botnets with Lit IP Space Analysis," the discussion expands on the premise that security analysis of active IP traffic, as opposed to traditional techniques such as darkspace honeypots, IPS signatures and spam analysis, enables botnet detection and tracking in real-time. Staniford will cover a new security analysis technique utilizing instrumented virtual machines that perform "lit IP space" analysis of Web and other network traffic to discover and investigate bots and targeted stealthy malware. The Joint Techs Workshop is an international conference of networking engineers featuring presentations, Birds-of-a Feather meetings, and demonstrations of state-of-the art high-performance networking technologies.

"The botnet problem is pervasive and highly complex. With over 150 million bot-infected computers around the globe executing illicit activities as part of elaborate, highly orchestrated botnets, there is a tremendous need and urgency for anti-botnet protection," said Stuart Staniford, chief scientist, FireEye. "FireEye's pioneering local and global approach meets the challenge with equal force and I am excited to have this opportunity to work with FireEye in stopping the alarming growth of botnet infiltrations."

Stuart Staniford has been a researcher and practitioner in computer intrusion detection since 1994 and has written a number of pioneering research papers. He was most recently the president of Invicta Consulting. At Invicta, Staniford evaluates the effectiveness of security systems, participating in litigation, code and design audits, development of novel algorithms in the information security area, and security architecture. Before his consultancy, Staniford was principal scientist at Nevis Networks, where he architected a very high-speed event correlation system and the traffic anomaly subsystem for the start-up. Prior to Nevis Networks, Staniford founded Silicon Defense, a network intrusion detection products company.

Earlier in his career, Staniford was a researcher at the University of California Davis Computer Security Research Lab, where he was instrumental in developing early network intrusion detection technology. While there he led the team that developed a distributed intrusion detection system GrIDS, designed explicitly to detect the spread of worms. Staniford received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of California Davis, his Masters in Computer Science and Physics from University of California Davis and his Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Physics from the University of Sussex, UK.

About the FireEye Botwall Solution

The FireEye Botwall™ security appliances and FireEye Botwall Network service together provide comprehensive anti-botnet protection. FireEye Botwall appliances analyze enterprise networks for bot activities and compromised machines. The FireEye Botwall Network is a globally deployed botnet discovery and analysis service which provides subscribers with the most current botnet intelligence to complement on-premise anti-botnet security appliances. It catalogs and disseminates botnet characteristics derived from malware analyses which are conducted by interconnected networks of FireEye Botwall security appliances selectively deployed at service providers around the world. FireEye's solution offers the industry's first complete global and local anti-botnet protection to precisely identify, understand, and stop emerging botnet and malware threats.

About FireEye, Inc.

FireEye, Inc. is the leader in anti-botnet protection, enabling organizations to protect critical intellectual property, computing resources, and network infrastructure against bot infiltration. Today's most damaging attacks originate from and through highly organized botnets, or networks of remotely controlled, compromised machines. FireEye delivers a complete solution that is designed from the ground up to detect and protect organizations from botnets through global and local intelligence and analysis. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and JAFCO. For more information, contact (408) 321-6300 or email: .