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FireEye and Mandiant unite to deliver industry's first global security as a service solution with FireEye as a Service

Introduces next-generation threat intelligence suite for deeper insights into cyber attacks.


Milpitas, CA, 25 Sep 2014

FireEye (NASDAQ: FEYE), the leader in stopping today's advanced cyber attacks, today announced two new solutions designed to equip organisations to scale their defence strategies.

The new FireEye as a Service offering is an on-demand security management offering that allows organisations to apply FireEye's technology, intelligence and expertise to find and stop cyber attacks.

The second new offering announced today, FireEye Advanced Threat Intelligence, provides access to threat data and analytical tools that help identify attacks and provide context about the tactics and motives of specific threat actors. Together, these new offerings enable organisations to implement an Adaptive Defense security model, so that organisations can rapidly detect and respond to security incidents as they occur.

"The ongoing acceleration of technology innovation continues to outpace today's security capabilities, leading more and more organisations to align with a strategic defence partner that can protect them over the long haul," said David DeWalt, chairman of the board and CEO, FireEye. "To meet this need, FireEye is taking a new approach with the introduction of FireEye as a Service and FireEye Advanced Threat Intelligence. FireEye is now able to serve as an extension of our customers' security teams so they can more quickly implement an adaptive defence security model. By blending FireEye's technology, intelligence and expertise into a single on-demand offering, FireEye as a Service simplifies and consolidates the disparate patchwork of products and services organisations must piece together to defend themselves."

The Adaptive Defense security model is an approach for defending against advanced threat actors that scales up or down based on the unique needs of each security organisation at any point in time. With this new approach, organisations can significantly reduce the risks of cyber attacks with on-demand access to FireEye's expert team of analysts, forensics specialists and malware reverse engineers.

With FireEye as a Service, organisations can choose to manage their own security operations, offload security operations to FireEye, or co-manage operations with FireEye or a FireEye partner. When organisations choose FireEye as a Service, they tap into FireEye's team of expert threat analysts located in security operations centers around the world to hunt for attackers in their organisation by applying FireEye's unique combination of technology, intelligence and expertise.

The new FireEye Advanced Threat Intelligence offering adds two new capabilities to complement FireEye's existing Dynamic Threat Intelligence subscription. First, when the FireEye Threat Prevention Platform identifies an attack, users will now be able to view intelligence about the attackers and the malware. Security teams will be able to see who the associated threat actor is, what their likely motives are, and get information about the malware and other indicators they can use to search for the attackers. The second new capability is a threat intelligence research service where customers can subscribe to ongoing research including comprehensive dossiers, trends, news and analysis on advanced threat groups as well as profiles of targeted industries, including information about the types of data that threat groups target. Both new offerings are available as a subscription to customers that have purchased FireEye products.

"The tools attackers use to invade networks and steal digital assets are changing every day and security teams are tired of knitting together a complex patchwork of technology and services to defend themselves," said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. "With FireEye as a Service, customers get on-demand access to the FireEye's technology, intelligence and expertise so they can have a single point of contact to address their needs before, during or after a security incident."

Highlights of FireEye as a Service include:

* Aggressive detection of adversaries and their actions - FireEye analysts staff an around the clock global network of security operations centres to hunt for attackers in an environment using FireEye technology and advanced analytics that identifies outliers and correlates them with behaviors of known attackers. By finding high-risk threats at the earliest stages of an attack, FireEye minimises the risk of a breach.

* Ability to pivot to incident response - Even organisations with the most aggressive and mature security programs experience security incidents. With FireEye as a Service, organisations can quickly engage a Mandiant incident response team when needed.

* Support for multiple licensing models - Organisations can choose to pay a subscription fee and account for the service as an operational expense or pay up front and account for it as a capital expense.

* Complementary to existing service providers - If an organisation desires, FireEye offers the service through qualified managed security service partners to complement their capabilities and deliver FireEye-as-a-Service through them.

* Access to personalised intelligence reports - FireEye as a Service customers get access to key intelligence findings and judgments specific to their organisation from the FireEye intelligence team. This includes identification of attackers specifically targeting their industry, typical attack methodologies used by relevant adversaries, and key business or financial data that motivates attackers to target your organisation.

* Access to experts - Collectively, FireEye's security analysts, threat assessment managers and forensics specialists have centuries' worth of experience. Skilled security experts are expensive and hard to find. By providing reliable, on-demand access to these advanced skills, security teams can rest assured they are available in times of need without making unnecessary investments.

To learn more about how FireEye as a Service enables organisations to operationalise an Adaptive Defense security model, please visit FireEye COO Kevin Mandia's blog post: http://www.fireeye.com/blog/corporate/2014/09/security-done-the-right-way-adaptive-defense.html. For more information on FireEye as a Service, FireEye Advanced Threat Intelligence or becoming an Adaptive Defense customer, please visit: http://www.fireeye.com.

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FireEye has invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks. These highly sophisticated cyber attacks easily circumvent traditional signature-based defences, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus and gateways. The FireEye Threat Prevention Platform provides real-time, dynamic threat protection without the use of signatures to protect an organisation across the primary threat vectors and across the different stages of an attack life cycle. The core of the FireEye platform is a virtual execution engine, complemented by dynamic threat intelligence, to identify and block cyber attacks in real-time. FireEye has over 2 500 customers across 65 countries, including over 150 of the Fortune 500.

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Forward-looking statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements related to the features and benefits of an adaptive defence security model, FireEye as a Service, and FireEye Advanced Threat Intelligence. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions which, if they do not fully materialise or prove incorrect, could cause the performance of these new offerings and FireEye's results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include customer demand and adoption of FireEye's solutions; real or perceived defects, errors or vulnerabilities in FireEye's products or services; FireEye's ability to react to trends and challenges in its business and the markets in which it operates; FireEye's ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products and services to meet those needs; and general market, political, economic, and business conditions; as well as those risks and uncertainties included under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations", in FireEye's quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 13 August 2014, which is available on the investor relations section of the company's Web site at investors.FireEye.com and on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and FireEye does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made. Any future product, service, feature, benefit or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. FireEye reserves the right to modify future product and services plans at any time.

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