(L-R) FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and Microsoft President Brad Smith testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, D.C. The hearing focused on the 2020 cyberattack that resulted in a series of data breaches in government agencies and private companies. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
From a certain vantage point, the cybersecurity industry has never been healthier. Businesses and other organizations are spending record amounts on security tools, solutions and hardware, while investors have spent the past few years showering startups with billions of dollars to develop new and emerging defense technologies. All of this activity has been underscored by a now-daily deluge of reporting about the latest big breach, ransomware attack or supply chain compromise.
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?’”
The increased weaponization of zero-day vulnerabilities has resulted in unprecedented demand for FireEye’s threat intelligence and expertise, according to CEO Kevin Mandia.