FireEye

Milpitas, Calif.—March 12, 2008 — FireEye, Inc., the leader in global anti-botnet protection, today announced that Dr. Michael J. Staggs, one of the company's chief security investigators, continues to build awareness about the growing botnet pandemic and effective anti-botnet protection strategies through speaking engagements at key industry events. Dr. Staggs will discuss "Putting an End to Data Leakage by Botnet" at the Data Protection Summit on March 12, 2008, and he presents "The 'Storm' No One Sees...Storm Bot" at the Colorado Information Manager's Association (CIMA) 2008 Educational Conference on April 16, 2008. Dr. Staggs also spoke last week at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) on the topic "Botnets: Current State of the Net."

FireEye's unique anti-botnet protection solution combines a global botnet discovery and analysis service network coupled with on-premise anti-botnet security appliances to deliver the industry's most comprehensive and accurate protection against worldwide botnets. FireEye leverages its unique visibility into botnet activities to educate the market about botnet behavior, attacks, and vulnerabilities, helping organizations protect their critical assets, people and intellectual property.

"Botnets threaten the very foundation of the Internet economy," said Dr. Michael J. Staggs, chief investigator at FireEye, Inc. "The surgical precision with which they are used to execute cyber crimes along with the complex and deceptive methodologies used by hackers to create and utilize these armies, creates a substantial challenge for today's IT and security professionals. Our extensive botnet research and combined global and local FireEye Botwall solution give us a clear viewpoint on this pandemic that we can bring to the industry through valuable forums such as the Data Protection Summit, CIMA and ETech."

Dr. Staggs' discussion on the topic "Putting an end to Data Leakage by Botnet" at the Data Protection Summit will delve further into how botnets drive active data leakage by creating a nearly undetectable conduit for data mining within organizations. Discussion will include overviews of botnet forensics, virtualization practices, automated analysis, malware characteristics and C&C structures. Dr. Staggs' session is scheduled for Wednesday, March 12 from 10:20 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport, in Irvine, Calif. The event runs from March 11 through March 13, 2008.

At the CIMA 2008 Educational Conference, Dr. Staggs, delves into the Storm Bot, a remote control program that has infected millions of computers in workplaces, homes, schools and beyond. The Storm Bot is extremely difficult to detect and is alone responsible for nearly half of the immense volume of SPAM received by people everyday. Attendees of this session will learn what the Storm Bot is, how it works, the extent of the global infection, and how to detect and remove it from the network. Dr. Staggs' discussion is scheduled for Wednesday, April 16 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. The event is scheduled to take place at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort Conference Center, in Colorado Springs, Colo. from April 16 through April 18, 2008.

The rise of botnets, the role they play in today's most sinister cyber crimes, the underground economy they support, botnet behaviors, and the investigative process required to detect and eliminate botnet infiltration were topics comprising Dr. Staggs' presentation at ETech entitled, "Botnets: Current State of the Net."

About the Data Protection Summit

The 2nd annual Data Protection Summit is designed to provide attendees with practical information on the current state of data protection. The Summit will include half-day tutorials on data security, compliance, mobile security, and legal issues and privacy; presentations on security, privacy, and data protection; and keynotes and panel discussions by industry luminaries. For more information, visit http://www.dataprotectionsummit.com/

About The CIMA 2008 Educational Conference

The 2008 Educational Conference combines the Colorado Information Manager's Association, Colorado Fiscal Manager's Association, and Colorado State Manager's Association in a forum to discuss today's highest business, fiscal and IT priorities. For more info, visit http://www.state.co.us/cima/2008Spring/2008Spring.htm

About the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Now in its seventh year, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) centers on future technologies that truly matter. From robotics, health care and space travel to gaming, finance and art, ETech explores promising technologies new to the innovation horizon, and investigates those that have been on the horizon too long. For more information, visit http://en.oreilly.com/et2008/public/content/home

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: .