http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/050614-fireeye-buying-npulse-281356.html
By Ellen Messmer
Network World
May 06, 2014
Threat protection company FireEye Tuesday announced it's acquiring nPulse
Technologies, a privately-held maker of high-speed packet-capture, network
analysis and forensics gear, for $70 million in a cash-stock deal expected
to close during the second quarter.
Charlottesville, Va.,-based nPulse makes a line of data storage and
network forensics products, including Cyclone nSpector, Capture Probe and
Security Probe, and has about 60 customers, including the U.S. government
(where some of its equipment is used to support the EINSTEIN 3
network-monitoring program run by the Department of Homeland Security).
Chairman and CEO Dave DeWalt, says acquiring nPulse will give FireEye a
platform that represents a kind of “flight recorder” for security
analytics.
“The new reality of security is that every organization has some piece of
malware code within their network,” DeWalt says. “The important question
is has that code been able to execute any compromising activity that puts
organizations at risk, and if so, what data left the network?” He
suggested with the addition of the nPulse gear, FireEye will be able to
incorporate real-time breach information into a single platform to provide
in-depth attack information in order to remediate the situation before “a
compromise turns catastrophic.” nPulse has about 30 employees and is
headed by CEO Tim Sullivan, an ex-Marine who earlier in his career started
up Fidelis Security Systems. Sullivan is expected to stick around and be
vice president of FireEye’s enterprise forensics group.
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