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FireEye Unveils Interactive, Educational Destination to Strengthen Modern Malware Protection

- May 5, 2010 –

ModernMalwareExposed.org to Provide Business Leaders Free Network Protection Assessment with Recommendations to Stop Targeted, Stealthy Attacks

NEWS FACTS:

  • FireEye (www.fireeye.com), the leader in malware protection systems, today announced an educational initiative, ModernMalwareExposed.org, designed to expose the truth behind Modern Malware, educate about Modern Malware and provide tools to assess an organization's malware exposure risk. In addition, FireEye also launched a new release of their Malware Protection System appliances.
  • ModernMalwareExposed.org will include interactive tools for business and IT executives to learn how to protect against and stop the recurring Modern Malware infection lifecycle.
  • FireEye conducted a recent survey with a group of leading, billion-dollar enterprises that have security responsibility for more than 1.2 million employees. More than 86 percent of companies surveyed rated stealthy, Modern Malware a high concern (7 or higher on a scale of 10).
  • The survey group estimated that a median of 7 percent of their systems were actively compromised by malware.
  • Despite companywide deployments of firewalls, intrusion prevention devices and even secure Web gateways, a persistent 7 percent infection rate essentially exposes the entire organization's sensitive and confidential data to exposure (as witnessed by the "Aurora" attack that compromised more than 20 enterprises).
  • Famous "White Hat" Marc Maiffret, Chief Security Architect at FireEye, will be contributing to ModernMalwareExposed.org by authoring the blog on the new website. The blog will focus on news surrounding malware and tips on how to protect against Modern Malware.
  • ModernMalwareExposed.org will include:
    • Interactive Malware Characterizer
    • Free Protection Self-Assessment
    • eBook and Whitepapers
    • Modern Malware Exposed Blog
    • Webinars and live events

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Quote by Ashar Aziz, Founder and CEO of FireEye

"ModernMalwareExposed.org will be the industry's first interactive website to help educate the public about the nature of Modern Malware and how organizations can protect against this advanced, persistent threat," said Ashar Aziz, founder and CEO of FireEye. "They key to combating Modern Malware is breaking the malware infection lifecycle. The ongoing cycle of malware attacks, data exfiltration, frenzied remediation, and system re-infection can only end with a coordinated defense that address each aspect of the infection lifecycle. ModernMalwareExposed.org will provide readers with information regarding solutions to the Modern Malware epidemic."

Quote by Marc Maiffret, Chief Security Architect of FireEye

"Modern Malware doesn't always have to be sophisticated in order to successfully infiltrate a major corporation, financial institution or government agency" said Marc Maiffret, chief security architect at FireEye. "By using a simple piece of malware, as long as it's a brand new piece of malware, antivirus software completely misses it because there is no known signature. Relying on old security paradigms like signatures to defend against rapidly evolving malware has proven to be ineffective. In order to stop malware and prevent data theft, we need to stop the malware infection lifecycle."

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About FireEye, Inc.

FireEye, Inc. is the leader in malware protection systems and next generation network threat prevention solutions that safeguard valuable data and networks against Modern Malware infiltration and theft in commercial enterprises, higher education, and government institutions. The FireEye Malware Protection System is the industry's first solution that completely breaks the Modern Malware infection lifecycle by stopping inbound, zero hour, targeted attacks, outbound data exfiltration callbacks, and dynamically inoculating networks from future attacks through both local and global intelligence. FireEye finds and blocks the 90% of Modern Malware attacks that conventional defenses miss, at network speeds and near-zero false positive rates, delivering an extremely low security TCO. FireEye is based in Milpitas, Calif. and backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, JAFCO Ventures, DAG Ventures, Juniper Networks, and In-Q-Tel.

Ashar Aziz, Founder and CEO of FireEye

Ashar Aziz holds over 20 patents in the areas of networking, network security, and datacenter virtualization. Prior to FireEye, Ashar founded Terraspring, a company focused on datacenter automation and virtualization. Terraspring was successfully acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002, where Ashar then served as CTO of the company's N1 program. Before Terraspring, Ashar spent twelve years at Sun as a distinguished engineer focused on networking and network security. Ashar holds an S.B. (Scientiae Baccalaureus) in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the UC Regents Fellowship.

Marc Maiffret, Chief Security Architect of FireEye

As chief security architect, Maiffret drives the evolution of FireEye's next-generation Modern Malware protection technology and further amplifies the company's global security research efforts. Maiffret is a world renowned security expert and entrepreneur. Maiffret co-founded eEye at the age of 17 after he hung up his black hat and became a white hat. He was CTO of eEye Digital Security where he led the overall product strategy and vision for the company. He also led the research team which is credited for discovering critical security vulnerabilities including personally co-discovering the first Microsoft computer worm, CodeRed. Maiffret has spoken at prominent security conferences, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on national cyber security and critical infrastructure protection matters.

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