FireEye

Ran product.

We got acquired by FireEye.

And there I ran Mandiant Engineering.

for a few years before being co-founder of BreacherX.

Because if you can understand the threat, then you can better prepare for them.

We were very successful with that.

And then at FireEye, seeing all the companies that are compromised but not prepared, like meaningfully not ready.

And so the consulting teams had to jump in and really rescue a lot of businesses from a lot of pain.

But we also made sure from a focus on the right partners and making sure the coverage we had as far as being available and present from a channel perspective, and then really the enablement piece, weaving those pieces in, if you will, Robert, to complement what was already going on here as a company.

At Trellix, you were, you were there in the aftermath of the big merger of McAfee and FireEye coming together, trying to build a unified channel, unified story out of those, those pieces.

KnowBe4, very different kind of situation.

It's one product line, very strong brand recognition, um, but maybe the challenge is around building that enterprise channel over time.

Dave is the founder and CEO of NightDragon, a leading venture capital and advisory firm focused on cybersecurity, defense, AI, quantum, and national security.

He's a four-time CEO who has led some of the most influential companies in technology, including FireEye, McAfee, and Documentum.

Across his career, he's credited with creating more than twenty billion in shareholder value and driving some of the largest acquisitions and IPOs in the industry.

He has also held more than 40 board roles, giving him a rare view into how companies actually make decisions about security, risk, and investment.

El precio comienza en dos dólares por millón de tokens de entrada y la ventana de salida se amplió a un millón de tokens frente a los sesenta y cuatro mil anteriores.

En el frente del dinero para seguridad, Kevin Mandia, el CEO de FireEye, que se convirtió en el rostro de las grandes investigaciones de brechas de seguridad, recaudó doscientos cincuenta y cinco millones quinientos mil dólares con una valoración de dos punto cinco mil millones de dólares para una nueva empresa llamada Armadine.

La propuesta es seguridad ofensiva impulsada por inteligencia artificial.

Usar la misma velocidad automatizada que tienen hoy los atacantes para probar y reforzar las defensas antes de que los actores maliciosos lleguen primero.

We don't know.

It reminds me a little bit, we can move on after this, but in the early days of malware emulation, like early FireEye boxes, they had a representative couple of sandbox versions of operating systems and they would run unknown binaries and profile them for malicious behavior.

If it pops, malicious, cool.

But the problem that those often had is, cool, that's not the actual set I'm running in my host.

The story reached the public through the company that got caught in it first.

In November of 2020, a cybersecurity firm called FireEye, whose incident response arm is known as Mandiant, discovered that it had been breached itself.

This is a firm that companies and government agencies hire to find the holes in their own defenses, and it had just found intruders inside its own network.

On the 8th of December, 2020, it disclosed what had happened.

What the attacker took was a specific set of tools, FireEye's Red Team Assessment Tools.

A Red Team is the offensive side of a security firm, the people paid to attack their own clients on purpose, with permission, so they can find the weaknesses before a real attacker does.

The tools they use for that are, in effect, a working kit for breaking into well-defended networks.

FireEye said the attacker had targeted and accessed the Red Team assessment tools it uses to test its customer security.

It was 2015.

It was around the time that Mandiant was acquired by FireEye.

And Mandiant was the first company big company doing incident response work in the US.

It was being acquired by FireEye for a very large multiple for a services company, right? I think its revenue back then was around $100 million, maybe a little bit less, and was acquired for over a billion dollars, a 10-figure exit.

And a very nice multiple for a services company.

And we thought maybe we can replicate that, bring all the cybersecurity talent in Israel to work for the corporate America on problems like incident response.