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Shrikant Shitole, VP & Country Head - India & SAARC, FireEye, Inc.

How FireEye is addressing various challenges into SOC? 

Cyber security at its core is the ability to have control over information. In order to do that well, organizations need to have a combination of the right tools and competent personnel. SOCs are vital to an organization’s security posture and the three most important activities for the SOC are minimizing false positives, an agile DevOps program, and Threat Intelligence reporting. 

Security teams protect critical assets for their organizations, a challenging charter with difficult odds in today’s dynamic threat environment. The future success of security teams calls for a new paradigm - a way to verify and continuously test the promises of others. That new approach is the Verodin Security Instrumentation Platform (SIP), a cyber security risk assessment and management platform that enables teams to ensure their critical assets are always protected. With the Mandiant Security Validation (formerly Verodin), one can rapidly quantify and prove their ability to defend the organization from the expanding threat landscape of sophisticated adversaries around the world and their latest attacks, whether one’s architecture is wholly on-premise, hybrid, or in the cloud. 

The ideal way to initiate a change to set the stage for the future of Security Operations centers (SOC) is with a cyber security platform such as FireEye Helix, which is a cloud-hosted security operations platform. Security operations - big or small - require a holistic, foundational approach. FireEye Helix helps organizations build that foundation. FireEye Helix is a cloud-hosted security operations platform that allows organizations to take control of any incident from alert to fix. Available with any FireEye solution, FireEye Helix integrates security tools and augments them with next-generation SIEM, orchestration, and threat intelligence capabilities to capture the untapped potential of security investments. Designed by security experts, for security experts, it empowers security teams to efficiently conduct primary functions, such as alert management, search, analysis, investigations, and reporting. Integrating visibility, protection, and detection with advanced analytics is not a dream of the future, but an achievable reality right now. 

In the growing cyber attacks across the globe, how is FireEye geared with its tools and technology to secure the customers?

FireEye’s new security portfolio- Cloudvisory is a control center for cloud security management that delivers visibility, compliance and governance to any security environment. Managing complex, multi-cloud environments is a reality for the majority of enterprises. By consolidating these environments into one consistent interface for monitoring and managing distributed, dynamic multi-cloud environments, FireEye Cloudvisory helps one take control over infrastructure misconfiguration. One of the exciting use cases for Cloudvisory is the visibility it provides into assets across cloud environments.

Mandiant® Advantage: Threat Intelligence is the first SaaS-based offering by Mandiant Solutions to combine its Threat Intelligence with data from the frontlines of its industry-leading cyber incident response engagements, delivered through an easy-to-use management platform. Mandiant Threat Intelligence provides organizations with information on active threats as they emerge and is the first generally available SaaS offering on the new Mandiant Advantage platform. Mandiant Solutions plans to introduce a family of Mandiant Advantage SaaS offerings to augment and automate global security teams with controls-agnostic, actionable breach, adversary, operational, and machine intelligence data from the company’s global deployment of product telemetry and the Mandiant front lines. 

How FireEye has developed its ecosystem partners in India? 

FireEye’s extensive partner network makes for the best service to have in any industry or vertical. The FireEye Affinity Partner ecosystem can help develop a stronger security posture and build and maintain a robust security program through value-added security services, frontline insights into complex challenges and innovative security solutions. FireEye has extended relationships with Technology Solution Partners, Global Services Providers, and Cyber Risk Law and Insurance firms. 

FireEye’s Technology Partnerships team enables the partners with the tools and expertise needed to create unified, integrated experiences across diverse solutions. FireEye is always searching for the right partners to provide the best experience and protection for our customers. 
Through the Affinity program, we are committed to fully enabling our partners to stay ahead of their customer’s growing cyber security needs by offering:

●    Next-generation threat prevention as a service
●    Competitive leasing programs
●    Partner-branded, FireEye-powered security solutions
●    Market-leading advanced threat prevention that integrates with complementary technologies 
At FireEye, channel partners are our Force multipliers and we continue to invest to strengthen their capabilities to better serve our customers. In 2021, we will continue to invest resources to build strategic partnerships with our SIs, VARs, Alliances and VADs in India to fully enable and engage them to accelerate our joint growth. We are confident that the channel fraternity will see a long-term benefits to partner FireEye to help secure their customers. 
Can you share the best practices on how FireEye updates on the newer threat vectors to its customers as well as the industry? 
As the intelligence-led security company, FireEye has published a number of security-related blogs in our website and security reports. Examples include the M-Trends 2020, an annual publication from FireEye Mandiant that contains insights based on frontline investigations of the most interesting and impactful cyber attacks of the year and the Security Predictions Report which is a compilation of the list of Cyber security expectations for the coming year, to name a few.  
With A Global Reset: Cyber Security Predictions 2021, FireEye looked back at the past 12 months and identified several new and evolving cyber security trends that will likely persist as we move into 2021. FireEye continues to educate and raise cyber security awareness in the wider community by tackling these topics of interest and relevance - remote work and other impacts of the global pandemic, ransomware, nation-state activity, cloud security, and security validation. 
FireEye Chat is also one of the ways we like to keep our customers updated about the industry. FireEye Chat is our quarterly talk show which brings guest experts front and center to cover today’s most important cyber security topics.