FireEye acquires incident response and remediation services company Mandiant for $1 billion. The merger occurred on Dec. 30 and was announced Jan. 2. FireEye’s technology isolates incoming traffic in virtual machines, searching for suspicious activity and analyzing it before deciding whether to allow traffic into its customers’ systems. Mandiant gained international attention with it published a comprehensive report that contends a Chinese military unit it dubbed APT1 breached computers in enterprises that conduct business mostly in English, especially in the U.S.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/fireeye-acquires-mandiant-a-6334