The increased weaponization of zero-day vulnerabilities has resulted in unprecedented demand for FireEye’s threat intelligence and expertise, according to CEO Kevin Mandia.
The Milpitas, Calif.-based platform security vendor blew the whistle on the SolarWinds hackers, alerting the world Dec. 8 that it had been hacked and determining days later that SolarWinds was the source of the compromise. Then just last week, FireEye publicly disclosed an authentication bypass zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure as well as a zero-day flaw in SonicWall email security, both of which had been exploited.
“You keep reading that the Mandiant brand or FireEye brand is finding these things,” Mandia told CRN Tuesday. And we’re finding them because we’re doing investigations, and we are dogged in our determination to figure out, ‘So how did this intrusion happen?’”