We try to figure out - here's their fingerprints, let's share those fingerprints with everybody so they can't get away with what they're doing. What we do is we track attackers and quite frankly, we out them. If you wrote down the reasons why another nation might want to compromise FireEye, you can come up with some reasons. What was that moment like when you're figuring out it's your cybersecurity company that has been hacked? Here are excerpts from Mandia's interview: Because right now there's absolutely an escalation in cyberspace." "It's time this nation comes up with some doctrine on what we expect nations' rules of engagement to be, and what will our policy, or proportional response, be to folks who violate that doctrine. "What I've seen is 2020 has been about the hardest year, period, to be an information security officer," Mandia said. But the Trump administration has not formally attributed blame. The SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency, is considered the most likely culprit, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and some members of Congress who have been briefed by the U.S. Technology Cyber Firm FireEye Says It's Been Hacked By A Foreign Government
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The hackers attached their malware to a software update from Austin, Texas-based company SolarWinds, which makes software used by many federal agencies and thousands of private companies to monitor their computer networks. agencies were successfully targeted, including the departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, Energy and Homeland Security as well as the National Institutes of Health. Within days, the scope of the hack began to emerge. "My gut was telling me it was something we needed to put people on right away." "We escalated very quickly from the moment I got the first briefing that, 'Hey, we have a security incident of some magnitude,' " FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia told All Things Considered co-host Mary Louise Kelly. 8, when the cybersecurity firm FireEye announced it had been breached and some of its most valuable tools had been stolen. The first word that hackers had carried out a highly sophisticated intrusion into U.S. Mandia's company was the first to sound the alarm about the massive hack of government agencies and private companies on Dec. Kevin Mandia, CEO of the cybersecurity firm FireEye, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017.
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