Milpitas, Califorinia - Jul 10, 2010 – FireEye, Inc., the leader in malware protection systems, today announced it was selected by an independent group of journalists as a 2010 Tech Awards Circle winner. The FireEye Malware Protection System was honored with a Silver Tech Awards Circle award, labeling its enterprise hardware solution as one of the Best of Tech in 2010.
"The competition was extremely strong. We congratulate these winners for their outstanding products, talented executive leadership and engineering innovations," said awards program coordinator Kevin Anderson. "We were pleased to get entries of such a high quality."
Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the technology industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware, software and services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were awarded to companies in each respective category.
The FireEye Malware Protection System is the industry's first solution that breaks the Modern Malware infection lifecycle. The system stops zero-day attacks and outbound callbacks, while protecting networks from future attacks. FireEye blocks the 90 percent of Modern Malware that conventional defenses miss.
"This award is a particularly great honor, since the Tech Awards Circle winners are selected by an unbiased, independent group of journalists," said FireEye founder and CEO Ashar Aziz. "We are thrilled to be considered one of the 'best of the best' in the computer technology industry today."
For more information about the Tech Awards Circle, including the full list of winners, go to www.techawardscircle.com or email info@techawardscircle.com.
FireEye, Inc. is the leader in malware protection systems and next generation network threat prevention solutions that safeguard valuable data and networks against Modern Malware infiltration and theft in commercial enterprises, higher education, and government institutions. The FireEye Malware Protection System is the industry's first solution that completely breaks the Modern Malware infection lifecycle by stopping inbound, zero hour, targeted attacks, outbound data exfiltration callbacks, and dynamically inoculating networks from future attacks through both local and global intelligence. FireEye finds and blocks the 90% of Modern Malware attacks that conventional defenses miss, at network speeds and near-zero false positive rates, delivering an extremely low security TCO. FireEye is based in Milpitas, Calif. and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, JAFCO Ventures, DAG Ventures, Juniper Networks, and In-Q-Tel. Visit us at www.FireEye.com.