In-Q-Tel Invests in FireEye
The investment 'will extend FireEye's cyber security product development and stealth malware technical capabilities.'
By Kara Reeder
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Cybersecurity company FireEye has gotten support from the independent venture arm of the U.S. intelligence community, In-Q-Tel, reports InformationWeek.
This article was originally published on Nov 19, 2009
There is no information on the terms of the agreement or which intelligence agencies are interested in the technology. However, In-Q-Tel and FireEye say that the investment
will extend FireEye's cyber security product development and stealth malware technical capabilities to protect against cyber threats.
FireEye sells an out-of-band security appliance that monitors all inbound network traffic, capturing and replaying the traffic on virtual machines running in the appliance.