“Rather than using a blacklist to block known threats—the conventional method employed by antivirus software—FireEye works by assuming everything is suspect and testing programs in a safe “sandbox” before allowing them to run on a machine. In November, the CEO of the major security vendor McAfee left to join FireEye, which claims that nearly 30 percent of Fortune 500 companies are its customers and has raised more than $100 million in venture capital funds.
FireEye is far from the only startup gaining traction as malware becomes more targeted and as the latest methods of the most sophisticated hackers become more quickly democratized and disseminated.”
MIT Technology Review
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