FireEye buying nPulse for $70M to gain security analytics 'flight recorder'

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By Ellen Messmer
Network World
May 06, 2014

Threat protection company FireEye Tuesday announced it's acquiring nPulse 
Technologies, a privately-held maker of high-speed packet-capture, network 
analysis and forensics gear, for $70 million in a cash-stock deal expected 
to close during the second quarter.

Charlottesville, Va.,-based nPulse makes a line of data storage and 
network forensics products, including Cyclone nSpector, Capture Probe and 
Security Probe, and has about 60 customers, including the U.S. government 
(where some of its equipment is used to support the EINSTEIN 3 
network-monitoring program run by the Department of Homeland Security). 
Chairman and CEO Dave DeWalt, says acquiring nPulse will give FireEye a 
platform that represents a kind of “flight recorder” for security 
analytics.

“The new reality of security is that every organization has some piece of 
malware code within their network,” DeWalt says. “The important question 
is has that code been able to execute any compromising activity that puts 
organizations at risk, and if so, what data left the network?” He 
suggested with the addition of the nPulse gear, FireEye will be able to 
incorporate real-time breach information into a single platform to provide 
in-depth attack information in order to remediate the situation before “a 
compromise turns catastrophic.” nPulse has about 30 employees and is 
headed by CEO Tim Sullivan, an ex-Marine who earlier in his career started 
up Fidelis Security Systems. Sullivan is expected to stick around and be 
vice president of FireEye’s enterprise forensics group.

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