Start-up offers malware protection

摘要

Start-up FireEye made its debut last week, announcing plans to ship a switch-based network access control appliance next month that will let customers identify network-borne malware and attacks in order to contain them quickly Ashar Aziz, the firm's CEO, founded the company after a 12-year engineering career at Sun. He says FireEye's NAC appli-ance, as yet unnamed, will make use of what FireEye calls its virtual-machine tech- nology to identify attack traffic. This approach entails duplicating the desktop and server operating systems and applications within the FireEye appliance as a virtual CPU, and analyzing how traffic passing through a managed switch might affect it.