FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group

If it's not clear, here's a summary. FireEye acquired Mandiant a while ago for ~1B. FireEye had all the jazzy physical tech of the time like good, hardened sandboxes, sensors, etc, stuff you physically sell. Mandiant had the incident response and threat Intel expertise to analyze the telemetry from those physical appliances. Pairing made sense.

Now a days, Mandiant's IR and threat Intel offering is strong as ever, but people don't want just 1 companies sensors and telemetry products, they want to use whatever they want. There's also been new strong players into the physical sensor business like Microsoft and Crowdstrike just to name 2. So by splitting Mandiant can gain freedom to do all the things they do best but also integrate with other companies products, while FireEye can still develop leading products sold as standalone items. Mandiant has sold the big parts of what used to be FireEye for ~1.2B. So total Mandiant -> FireEye -> Mandiant

It's a good move that splits both organization segments in a way that makes sense for each. Disclaimer, I work for FireEye.

The unwinding begins

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