Cisco Completes Acquisition of Sourcefire

Oct. 8, 2013 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Sourcefire (NASDAQ: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions. With the close of this acquisition, Cisco will provide one of the industry’s most comprehensive advanced threat protection portfolios, as well as a broad set of enforcement and remediation options that are integrated, pervasive, continuous and open.

The increased scrutiny on security is being driven by the evolving trends of mobility, cloud computing, and advanced targeted attacks. More than the attacks themselves, a major consideration is the change in what defines a network, which goes beyond traditional firewalls and includes data centers, endpoints, virtual and mobile to make up the extended network. A threat-centric security model lets defenders address the full attack continuum, across all attack vectors, and respond at any time, all the time.

 “To truly protect against all possible attack vectors, our focus is to examine the nature of modern networked environments and devices and to defend them by deeply understanding and analyzing the mindset of the attackers,” said Christopher Young, senior vice president, Cisco Security Group. “Cisco’s portfolio of integrated solutions support this focus by delivering unmatched visibility and continuous advanced threat protection, allowing customers to act smarter and more quickly -- before, during, and after an attack.”

Cisco and Sourcefire customers will benefit from Cisco’s commitment to drive forward both the ASA and FirePOWER™ platforms. Cisco is also committed to open source innovation and will continue to support Snort®, ClamAV® and other open source projects.

With the completion of the transaction, Sourcefire employees join the Cisco Security Group led by Young. Additionally, Martin Roesch, founder and chief technology officer of Sourcefire, becomes vice president and chief architect for Cisco’s Security Group reporting directly to Young.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco is paying $76 per share in cash in exchange for each share of Sourcefire and assuming outstanding equity awards for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $2.7 billion, including retention-based incentives. Cisco expects the acquisition to be slightly dilutive to non-GAAP earnings in fiscal year 2014 due to normal purchase accounting adjustments and integration costs.  All shares of Sourcefire are expected to be delisted from the NASDAQ stock market by the close of business today.

SOURCEFIRE UPGRADES NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK SECURITY PLATFORM

Leading FirePOWER Network-Based Security Platform to offer Greater Flexibility and Customization for Malaysian Businesses

KUALA LUMPUR, – June 12, 2013 - Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cyber security solutions, today announces upgrades to its FirePOWER™ security platform which includes updates to its Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (NGIPS) and Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) solutions.

FirePOWER™ is a network-based platform that provides customers with universal security architecture for Sourcefire next-generation security solutions – NGIPS, NGFW and Advanced Malware Protection. These new enhancements will be offering customers increased flexibility and scalability to help ensure leading protection for any network environment.

Ivan Wen, Country Manager, Sourcefire Malaysia. 

The enhanced FirePOWER™ provides the industry’s best threat protection with proven performance and innovation that delivers enhanced appropriate awareness, automated security, application control, advanced malware protection and retrospective security.

“To address today's threats, network security platforms require advanced visibility and awareness into network interactions and applications, and even the ability to offer advanced malware protection,” said John Grady, Research Manager, Security Products, IDC.

“The ability of Sourcefire's FirePOWER platform to deliver this functionality as part of either an IPS or NGFW, while maintaining high performance and threat prevention, makes FirePOWER a very capable platform,” he adds.

FirePOWER’s performance and flexibility continues to be recognized for industry leadership. In its most recent IPS Security Value Map, NSS Labs ranked Sourcefire as the leader in security effectiveness, performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). The firm also highly rated Sourcefire’s NGFW in its 2013 NGFW Security Value Map.

Enhancements to FirePOWER

Sourcefire’s NGIPS and NGFW which are parts of the FirePOWER solution now has the ability to offer greater support in network discovery policies, correlation policies, whitelists, host profiles, various event viewers and the Sourcefire Defense Center’s Context Explorer.

In addition, Sourcefire has updated its FirePOWER security platform to provide contextual awareness for events through enhanced product and awareness support. Furthermore, there are geolocation additions such as continent, region, postal code, longitude, latitude, and organization and domain names included in the reporting capabilities.

The enhanced security platform also enables the Network Address Translation (NAT) configuration process to be simplified by enabling organizations to define NAT policies centrally instead of on a device-by-device basis.

Apart from that, the enhancements to the high-availability features for NGFW will minimize disruption and ensure continuous protection in the event of a firewall device failure.

“Business organizations in Malaysia today consistently face a growing number of sophisticated and persistent threats to their corporate data, increasing the demand for flexible and scalable security solutions that can be customized to deliver the optimal protection for customers’ environments,” said Ivan Wen, Country Manager, Sourcefire Malaysia.

“With these enhancements to our FirePOWER platform, Sourcefire’s customers can be rest assured that they have access to a security solution that delivers continuous protection – before, during and after an attack,” he ends.

SOURCEFIRE’s SHOCKING IT SECURITY FINDINGS

Sourcefire’s 25 Years of Vulnerabilities: 1988-2012 research findings discovered surprising facts
over the history of vulnerabilities:-

a) iPhone Poses Highest Mobile Phone Vulnerabilities

b) Microsoft XP and Mozilla Firefox Browser are ‘Most Vulnerable’ Platforms

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 March 2013 – Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today unveiled its latest research statistic findings on IT security vulnerabilities that span from 1988-2012 in a report released to the market, in a bid for businesses to better protect their assets.

The research was conducted based on two well-respected data sources, Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures (CVE) and National Vulnerability Database (NVD), both of which are international vulnerability identification entities, in the evaluation of over 54,000 vulnerabilities for over the last 25 years.

Overall Trend: Vulnerabilities Statistics

The number of discovered vulnerabilities increased rapidly from 1988- 2005, reaching a 6,612 vulnerabilities found in 2006. There was a steady decline for 6 year, with the figure shooting up again in 2012 with 5,281 vulnerabilities being reported last year alone.

Summary of the Major Discoveries of the Research

Key Finding #1: iPhone has the Highest Vulnerabilities

The popular Apple’s iPhone has the most vulnerability reported at 210; while Google Android logs in at 24, Windows Mobile at 14 and BlackBerry at 11.

It’s interesting to note though, that Apple has had significant CVE growth year-over-year, yet their OS has implemented more security features in subsequent iterations. One may argue that the increase in CVEs is due to the increased popularity of the phone over the years. However, Android, the current market leader for mobile phone operating systems, has actually received fewer CVEs in 2012 than it did in 2011, even though it had explosive growth in market share that same year.

Key Finding #2: Top 10 vendors reported with highest volume of vulnerabilities

The 10 worst offenders (from top down) were Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, IBM, Sun (acquired by Oracle), Cisco, Mozilla, Linux, HP, and Adobe. These top 10 vendors accounted for 14,162 vulnerabilities or almost 27% of the total number of vulnerabilities (Source: NVD’s data).

The interesting to note is that were only ‘critical vulnerabilities’ are considered, Oracle came in as the worst offender taking the 1st spot, followed by HP and IBM. Apple and Microsoft had more vulnerabilities overall, but fewer critical vulnerabilities.

Key Finding #3: Microsoft Windows XP and the Mozilla Firefox browser stand out as the two with the largest number of high-severity vulnerabilities

For high severity vulnerabilities, from top 10 offenders (from top down) were Microsoft Window XP, Firefox, Chrome, Windows, Internet Explorer, Seamonkey, Window Vista, Window 2003 Server, Thunderbird and lastly Mac OS X. Surprisingly, Flash Player is not amongst the top 10.

A key insight here is that the most popular Internet browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari) which make up a total of 90% of the browser market share, are listed in this top 10 list.

Key Finding 4: “Buffer Overflow” is the TOP vulnerability

“Buffer overflows” take the top spot with 7809 reported over the last 25 years.

In 2008 and 2009, SQL injection was the top TYPE of vulnerability; and only to be displaced by XSS and buffer overflows in 2010. In 2011, buffer overflows took the top spot again, while in access control issues reigned supreme in 2012.

The rest of the other severe vulnerabilities reported in the research are including “Code Injection”, “Input Validations”, “OS Command Injection” and more.

Conclusion

Yves Younan, Senior Research Engineer of Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT™) shared, “With 25 years of vulnerability data now available, this report takes a historical look at vulnerabilities over the years and some of the results were surprising.”

He concludes by listing the following as the key highlights worth noting:

a) Buffer overflows remain as one of the top ranking vulnerabilities year over year

b) Microsoft has significantly improved within the last couple of years and their browser and mobile operating systems are actually better than their competitors’ in terms of vulnerabilities discovered.

c) Chrome is ranked as one of the highest for vulnerabilities, while Android has very few; iPhone has a
significant lead on vulnerabilities, while Safari has the fewest compared to the other browsers.

Sourcefire Introduces Dedicated Advanced Malware Protection Appliance in Malaysia

New Continuous Analysis and Retrospective Security Approach Address Malware across the Entire Attack Continuum

Kuala Lumpur, 26 February 2013 - Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today launches its dedicated Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) appliance in Malaysia which allows users to defend against sophisticated network malwares from the point of entry, through propagation, to post-infection remediation.

Expanding on Sourcefire’s AMP offering portfolio, this new dedicated appliance is built on the industry-leading FirePOWER™ platform and provides increased deployment flexibility for organizations needing immediate protection against advanced malware.

Ivan Wen, the Country Manager of Sourcefire Malaysia shares that enterprises’ networks are constantly evolving and expanding to accommodate business needs. And, attackers are taking advantage of any gaps to permeate a network and accomplish their mission.

“Given today’s threat landscape, advanced malware detection and protection discussions should extend beyond blocking/prevention and highlight security intelligence, analytics, incident detection/response and lessons learned,” according to Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Organizations need to shift from tools that are mere gateways to an enterprise network security approach for better protection against a broader range of threats and vulnerabilities over time.”

Launching the most comprehensive AMP solution to the market

Wen shares, “The new launched AMP appliance delivers network protection with the capability to create forensic fingerprints of files to identify known malware, tracks file movement and identifies attack targets for focused remediation.”

“Using Sourcefire’s big data analytics, our solution also delivers continuous file analysis and retrospective alerting, so that users can be notified of malicious files that have entered their environment, even if they were previously classified as safe. Users can see how malware enters, infects and moves through an environment, and can then respond decisively to threats and quickly remediate. Sourcefire is the only vendor to address all of these dimensions of the advanced malware problem.”

In addition to the new dedicated appliance, Sourcefire offers AMP for FirePOWER as a license option for Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems and Next-Generation Firewall solutions. Customers also have the flexibility to easily increase protection in the future by enabling application control and additional security functionality on the same device.

“Thwarting attacks isn’t just about blocking but also about using retrospective security to mitigate the impact once an attacker gets in. Sourcefire’s threat-centric approach to security gives organizations continuous visibility, analysis and control across their environment and along the full attack continuum – before, during and after an attack,” ends Ivan.  

Sourcefire Appoints M.Tech as Distributor in Malaysia

M.Tech to Offer Sourcefire Security Solutions to New Southeast Asia Territories

Kuala Lumpur, 30 January 2013 - Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with M.Tech (Registered as M-Security Technology Sdn. Bhd in Malaysia) to market and distribute Sourcefire’s security solutions throughout Malaysia.

M.Tech is a leading regional distributor of IT Security, Application Delivery Network and Video Communication solutions, with operations in 15countires including Malaysia.

(L): Mr Ivan Wen, Country Manager of Sourcefire Malaysia. (R): Mr Tan Chong Huat, Country Manager of M.Tech Malaysia.

M.Tech will now offer Sourcefire’s security solutions including the Sourcefire Next-Generation IPS (NGIPS), NGIPS with Application Control, Sourcefire Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), and FireAMP™ Advanced Malware Protection.

Increasing Requirement for Security Solutions across the Asia-Pacific

According to a recent report from IDC¹, the continuous maturing of the Asia-Pacific IT security market has seen a growing number of highly publicized security breaches and threat events. In response, the IT security appliance market in Asia Pacific is set to reach US$2.8 billion by 2015 in customer revenue, making Asia-Pacific the quickest and fastest growing region in the world.

 Ivan Wen, Country Manager of Sourcefire Malaysia, shares that the recent findings from IDC confirm the increasing requirement for security solutions across the Asia-Pacific region.

“We are delighted to partner with M.Tech, which works with some of the top security vendors in the market. M.Tech’s established presence in Malaysia will allow Sourcefire to introduce our offerings to new potential markets in order to meet the emerging IT security demands.”

Tan Chong Huat, Country Manager of M.Tech Malaysia also shares, “We are pleased about the opportunity to expand our partnership across the Asia Pacific region with Sourcefire to include Malaysia. Sourcefire’s security offerings will be a valuable addition to M.Tech’s array of  IT security solutions.”

Sourcefire and M.Tech will work together to further support companies in Malaysia seeking next-generation security technologies and solutions to address advanced malware. Collaboration between the two companies will include providing on-site sales, marketing as well as technical support to M.Tech’s reseller partners.

In addition, Sourcefire has also appointed M.Tech as its value-added distributor in other Southeast Asian countries including Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, India and Hong Kong.

(1) IDC "Asia Pacific Security Appliance Quarterly Tracker" [December 2012].

Sourcefire委任M.Tech為其在大马的分銷商

M.Tech在東南亞地區提供Sourcefire的安全解決方案

吉隆坡，30日讯- Sourcefire (Nasdaq: FIRE), 智能网络安全解决方案供应商，今天宣布其与與M.Tech（M-Security Technology Sdn. Bhd）已簽署了一項分銷合作協議， 为了在整個馬來西亞推廣及分銷Sourcefire的安全解決方案，。

M.Tech是一家領先的區域型科技安全，應用交付網絡和視頻通信解決方案的分銷商，其公司已有业务在5各国家，其中包括馬來西亞。

M.Tech現能提供Sourcefire的安全解決方案，就包括Sourcefire新一代的网络入侵防御系统 （Next-Generation IPS，NGIPS），NGIPS加上應用控制，Sourcefire的下一代防火牆（Next-Generation Firewall ，NGFW），和FireAMP™先進的惡意軟件防護。

在整個亞太地區对安全解決方案需求不斷提升

根據IDC最近的一份報告¹，亞太科技安全市場正不斷成熟，并已同时出現了越來越多的高度公開的网络安全漏洞和威脅事件。回响此现象，亞太地區的科技安全產品市場將在2015年提升達到US$2.8 billion的客戶收入， 让亞太区成为在世界上增長最快的地區。 

文宏宏，大马Sourcefire总监，表示從IDC最近的調查結果證實了整個亞太地區的安全解決方案的需求正不斷地增長。

“我們很高興能与M.Tech成为合作夥伴。 与M.Tech的合作将能促成我们在馬來西亞潜入更大的市场，并允許我們介紹本身的產品，以滿足新的潛在市場对新興的科技安全的要求。“

陈宗法， M.Tech馬來西亞总监也贊同，“我們很高興能有機會与Sourcefire合作并擴大我們在亞太地區的合作夥伴關係，包括馬來西亞。 Sourcefire的安全產品將会为我们本身M.Tech的科技解決方案更多的價值。“

此外，Sourcefire還委任M.Tech作為其在其他東南亞國家的增值分銷商，其中包括新加坡，泰國，印度尼西亞，印度和香港。

(1) IDC "Asia Pacific Security Appliance Quarterly Tracker" [December 2012].

SOURCEFIRE EXTENDS ADVANCED MALWARE PROTECTION SOLUTION WITH INCIDENT RESPONSE SERVICE

Professional Services Experts Enable More Effective Response Across the Threat Lifecycle

Columbia, MD – January 18, 2013 -- Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced it has expanded its advanced malware protection offerings to include new Incident Response Professional Services that assist customers in addressing advanced malware challenges.  The services enable customers to clearly identify an event, evaluate the risk and determine the most effective approach to remediate. Experienced in incident response techniques, methodology and the actions of malicious code, the Sourcefire Incident Response Team helps customers eliminate uncertainty and make educated decisions for better protection – before, during and after an attack.

“Given the inevitability of a security breach, large organizations must supplement Advanced Malware Detection/Prevention network and host-based controls with effective and efficient incident response policies, processes and metrics,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).1 “Many security solutions were designed for advanced malware detection and blocking alone, and lack the intelligence and integration necessary for incident detection and response. One notable exception of products and services comes from network security leader Sourcefire.”

The Sourcefire Incident Response team assists customers in diagnosing, identifying and remediating risks using Sourcefire technology. Sourcefire advanced malware protection for FirePOWER™ and FireAMP™ use security big data analytics and collective intelligence to deliver integrated, advanced malware protection from the network to end-devices. The Incident Response team helps customers leverage the intelligence these solutions provide, including forensic data, continuous file analysis, and visibility into file trajectory and behavior, to make more informed security and incident response decisions across the entire advanced malware lifecycle.

Using best practices for incident response and a structured approach to incident evaluation, the Sourcefire experts act as an extension of the customer’s team to identify risk and minimize it in the future. Services include incident investigation to determine the method(s) of attack employed by the attacker throughout the course of the incident; countermeasure development to detect and stop attacks; assistance in deploying countermeasures according to best practices; and validation of countermeasure effectiveness and recalibration as needed to ensure ongoing protection.

“Advanced malware protection is not just about having the right technologies in place but also the right response when the technologies identify an event,” said Jonathan Goldberger, vice president of professional services for Sourcefire. “Our incident response service helps our customers bridge the knowledge and experience gap so that they can take a more proactive stance to identifying, mitigating and eliminating risks using the intelligence from FireAMP and advanced malware protection for FirePOWER.”

Sourcefire Brings Big Data Analytics-Based Network Security to Malaysia

Cybersecurity solution leader unveils its latest advanced network protection against sophisticated threats and attacks

Kuala Lumpur, November 19, 2012 -- Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today launches its latest FirePOWER™ appliance family in Malaysia, to protect businesses from advanced malware threats.

The new introduction of Sourcefire FirePOWER can significantly protect networks against sophisticated malware, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and targeted attacks. It also provides visibility and control of modern threats on the network - right from the point of entry, to propagation, and with post-infection remediation.

Advanced Malware Protection for FirePOWER
According to Ivan Wen, Country Manager of Sourcefire Malaysia, it is critical for organizations to take a proactive stance to mitigating the impact of sophisticated malware that can very quickly permeate a network.

“The Sourcefire’s FirePOWER minimizes the propagation of advanced malware by creating forensic fingerprints of files to identify known malware, track file movement and identify attack targets for focused remediation.”

“With Sourcefire’s big data analytics capabilities, this advanced malware protection also delivers continuous file analysis and retrospective alerting to notify users of malicious files. It provides similar protection for devices, enabling visibility into malware trajectory, and rapid cleanup to avoid re-infection.”

Expands FirePOWER Appliance Range
The three new models of the FirePOWER appliances include FirePOWER 7010 (50 Mbps), FirePOWER 7020 (100 Mbps) and the FirePOWER 7030 (250 Mbps).

In conjunction of the launch of this new FirePOWER devices range, the latest Sourcefire’s 5.1.1 software is also release to serve as the foundation to enhance network awareness and strengthen threat prevention.

Ivan shares, “The FirePOWER 7000 Series appliance lineup and the new Sourcefire 5.1.1 software features file-type detection and control, as well as security intelligence for IP reputation and blacklisting. With the new models, Sourcefire’s performance range now spans from 50 Mbps to 40+ Gbps.”

The latest FirePOWER appliance family comprises Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (NGIPS), application control, Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) models, and advanced malware protection under one universal security platform to support the industries’ evolving security needs.

“Adding advanced malware protection for FirePOWER has significantly expanded our product benefits to help local companies combat threats before, during and after an attack,” ends Ivan.

For Malaysia, both advanced malware protection for FirePOWER and 5.1.1 are available at the end of November, with the new FirePOWER 7000 series appliance within the next three months.

Sourcefire advanced malware protection for FirePOWER enables network malware detection, continuous analysis and retrospective alerting. FirePOWER appliances also enhance content awareness with comprehensive file detection policies, and blocking of files by type protocol, and direction.

Sourcefire将以BigData数据分析为基础的网络安全方案带入大马

网络安全解决方案供应商推出了其最新先进的网络保护，助抵御复杂的网络安全威胁和攻击

 

吉隆坡，19日讯-- Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE),网络智能安全解决方案供应商，今天宣布在马来西亚推出其最新的FirePOWER™系列，保护商业不受恶意软件的威胁。

 

新引进的Sourcefire FirePOWER可以保护网络免受复杂的恶意软件，高级持续性威胁和有针对性的网络攻击。它还提供了现代网络上的可视性和控制能力 - 从入口点，传播，和攻击入侵后的修复。

 

FirePOWER提供先进的恶意软件保护 

据Sourcefire的大马总监，文宏宏表示组织能够采取积极主动的姿态来对付恶意软件入侵是非常重要的。 

 

“Sourcefire FirePOWER通过法医文件指纹认证识别已知的恶意软件，跟踪文件的移动和识别攻击目标，重点整治， 大幅度地减少了先进的恶意软件传播。” 

推出新 FirePOWER 系统系列

三款新的FirePOWER科技系统包括FirePOWER 7010 (50 Mbps), FirePOWER 7020 (100 Mbps) 和FirePOWER 7030 (250 Mbps). 

 

在推出新的FirePOWER装置的同时，Sourcefire也推出其最新的5.1.1软件，以提高网络的认识和加强威胁防护。

文宏宏表示，“FirePOWER 7000设备系列阵容和新的Sourcefire5.1.1软件， 提供的功能如文件类型检测和控制，以及智能IP信誉和黑名单扫描。随着新推出，现在Sourcefire的性能范围覆盖从50 Mbps至40 + Gbps。“

最新的FirePOWER系列就包括下一代的入侵防御系统（Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems ，NGIPS），应用控制，下一代防火墙（Next-Generation Firewall， NGFW），以及先进的恶意软件保护， 统一在一个通用的安全平台，以支持行业不断变化的安全需求。 

 

无论是先进的恶意软件保护FirePOWER或5.1.1软件将在11月底推出大马，新的火力7000系列设备在未来三个月内登入大马。 

SOURCEFIRE Unveils FireAMP Virtual and Virtual Next-Generation IPS

FireAMP Virtual and Virtual Next-Generation IPS Provide Real-Time Visibility and Control to Protect the Virtual Enterprise 

Kuala Lumpur, 03 September 2012 - Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announces its latest solutions to address critical customer needs for virtualized security -- FireAMP™ Virtual and Virtual Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (NGIPS) with application control.  

The new solutions deliver Information Superiority by providing large enterprises and government organizations the visibility and control required to address the dynamic nature of constantly changing virtual deployments and evolving threats targeting those systems. 

Sourcefire’s comprehensive approach connects physical and virtual security elements, while also integrating network and application awareness with big data analytics for increased security intelligence. 

According to Soucefire Malaysia’s Country Manager, Ivan Wen that Sourcefire’s virtual solutions are just the latest example of the company’s commitment to protecting organisations from the most sophisticated attacks – whether on physical, mobile or virtual systems. 

Garner’s Research Director, Eric Ahlm shares that any security control that depends on detecting information of interest from the network is ineffective in the virtual switch unless the control itself resides or can see the data traffic in the virtual network

“The challenge is that not all network security controls have visibility into the virtual network that resides in the hypervisor. This can create blind spots in security controls that are monitoring only the physical network. Attacks that happen on the virtual switch will go undetected until they happen on a physical network with security controls,” adds Ahlm. 1

Sourcefire Virtual Real-Time Visibility, Control and Protection

The Sourcefire’s FireAMP Virtual protects VMware virtual instances from advanced malware and stops threats that bypass other security layers. The technology leverages cloud-based detection capabilities to analyze and block malware. 

It also uses Cloud Recall™ to provide continuous analysis of historical file activity to discover and remediate threats that were previously missed.  Designed for VMware environments, FireAMP Virtual increases efficiency through integration with the agentless VMware vShield architecture. 

In the other hand, the Virtual NGIPS overcomes the lack of visibility that traditional physical intrusion prevention products have over virtualized environments. 

“The Sourcefire Virtual NGIPS can inspect virtual machine (VM)-to-VM communications, providing full NGIPS capabilities to protect VMware-based virtual networks. It also provides optional URL filtering to reduce the surface area of attack.”

“As with physical assets, security in a virtualized setting should be about more than just stopping attacks; organisations also need to continually drive visibility, control and management. Sourcefire’s virtual solutions give organizations the confidence to launch or expand virtualized systems by offering insight and protection throughout their changing enterprises,” ends Ivan.

1 Gartner “Market Trends: Virtual Data Center Security, Worldwide, 2012,” by Eric Ahlm, June 28, 2012

JCMEX Partners Sourcefire for Malaysia’s FIRST IPS-enabled IP Telephony Solutions

World-class intrusion prevention systems provider works with local VoIP distributor JCMEX to protect VoIP networks from cyber attacks

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – June 25, 2012 -- Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announces its local partnership with JCMEX Trading Sdn Bhd (“JCMEX”), to deliver Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (“NGIPS”) protection over Internet Protocol(“IP”) telephony solutions for enterprises, small and mid-sized businesses (“SMBs”).

Established since 2000 in Malaysia, JCMEX is Asia's pioneer distributor of Digium/Asterisk IP telephony solutions. JCMEX’s clients include Hewlett Packard, Ministry of Defence (Hanoi, Vietnam), Cebu Telecoms and many more.

JCMex expects this partnership to increase its IP telephony solution revenue as well as boost the number of enterprises in Asia into using web-based communication technology.”

“This year, JCMEX is looking at a 20% of growth in IP solution revenue sales. Currently, we have over 180 resellers around the region to advocate the business growth and performance,” ends Suzanne.

According to Ivan Wen, Country Manager of Sourcefire in Malaysia, JCMEX is Malaysia’s FIRST IP telephony solutions distributor, and also Sourcefire’s first local partner in providing secured IP telephony solutions for the local market.

Increasing Demands for Security Enabled IP-based Telephony Offerings

Based on the Frost & Sullivan’s latest report ¹, revenues for the enterprise telephony market in the Asia Pacific region is expected to grow to USD2.57 billion in 2016 (from USD1.72 billion in 2009). In particular, SMBs have shown an active interest in enterprise IP products that can help reduce the total cost of ownership and telecommunication bills.

Wen shares, “As VoIP (Voice over IP) increases in popularity, so does the potential for harm from cyber attacks. Security is becoming the main concern for enterprises to adopt IP-based telecommunication platforms.”

“Sourcefire’s NGIPS provides users with decisive threat-mitigating controls to reduce threat attack surfaces over VoIP, video and web communications, IP-based Private Branch Exchange (PBX) servers, IP traffic gateways, data networks and more.”

“Much like firewalls in any IT infrastructure today, IPS has become a required component in any VoIP deployment,” says Wen.

Security Enablement Brings Greater Business Opportunities

JCMEX’s General Manager, Vanita Suzanne shares that she is excited on the partnership with Sourcefire as it demonstrates to the Asia’s IP telephony industry that the company is at the forefront of innovative technology solutions.

“The new partnership will enable JCMEX to integrate Sourcefire's context-aware NGIPS within all its IP-based telephony offering range to identify and prevent malicious attacks, i.e. voice hacking, on communications platforms that have been commonly experienced by Asia’s IP telephony users.”

“In today’s competitive market, it’s common for businesses, particularly for the enterprises and small- and mid-sized business to engage IP-based communication platforms to be more operationally cost saving and to keep up with the latest in technology.

“The introduction of NGIPS-enabled IP telephony solution will also provide organization a peace of mind to explore other new IP telephony technologies, such as mobile applications and mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services.”

Suzanne ends, “We are very pleased to be partnering with Sourcefire as the worldwide most leading intrusion prevention technology provider,”


本地JCMEX与跨国企业Sourcefire合作推出大马首项具网络入侵防御能力的互联网IP电话解决方案

与世界级网络入侵防御系统供应商合作，VoIP（Voice over IP）经销商JCMEX致力于保护VoIP网络通话

吉隆坡，25日讯 – Sourcefire (Nasdaq: FIRE)，网络智能安全解决方案供应商，今天宣布其与本地JCMEX贸易私人有限公司（JCMEX Trading Sdn Bhd，“JCMEX”）合作， 以提供网络入侵防御功能（Next Generation Intrusion Prevention, “NGIPS”）予互联网协议电话解决方案（Internet Protocol Telephony Solution，“IP”）， 为集团，小型和中型企业带来更佳的网络通话保护。

自2000年成立于马来西亚，JCMEX已成为亚洲Digium/ AsteriskIP电话解决方案的分销商先驱。

JCMEX的客户包括惠普（Hewlett Packard），国防部（越南河内）Ministry of Defence (Hanoi, Vietnam)，宿雾电信（Cebu Telecoms）等等。

JCMEX总经理，Vanita Suzanne表示今年，JCMEX翼在IP解决方案的销售收入增长达20％。目前，我们有180多位经销商分布于亚洲倡导业务增长和运作。

据文宏宏，Sourcefire大马商业总监表示，JCMEX是其公司在大马的首位IP电话解决方案合作伙伴，也是本地首位将IPS网络防御功能纳入IP电话解决方案的分销商。

市场对设有网络安全系统的IP通话产品需求日益增长

根据Frost＆Sullivan的最新报告¹， 在亚太地区的商用电话市场收入预计将在2016年增长至USD2.57billion（从2009年的USD1.72billion）。另外， 报告显示中小型企业对通过互联网的IP产品明显关注，因IP科技产品可以帮助降低总成本和电信账单。

文宏宏表示“，随着VoIP（IP语音通话）日益普及化，同样的网络攻击的潜在危机也同事件日益增加。网络同话安全已成为许多企业在采用基于IP的通信平台所主要关注的问题，。“

“Sourcefire的IPS网络防御系统能让企业减低潜藏在视频网络通讯，基于IP的专用交换服务器（Private Branch Exchange，PBX），IP通信网关，数据网络等， 的入侵攻击表面。”

“就像设置在任何科技基础设施的防火墙，IPS网络防御系统已经成为任何VoIP部署中所需的重要一环，”文宏宏表示。

启用安全功能带来更大的商机

JCMEX总经理，Vanita Suzanne表示，新的合作伙伴关系将能够让JCMEX所推出的所有IP通话解决方案识别和防止通讯入侵攻击，即如语音黑客，IP电话用户平台入侵。“

“推出IPS网络入侵防御IP通话解决方案， 将能够让商业企业放心地采用新的IP通话科技，如流动应用软件和虚拟流动网络运营商服务（Mobile Virtual Network Operator，MVNO）。 同时， 促进更多的亚洲企业采用基于网络的通信技术，” Vanita Suzanne结尾。

SOURCEFIRE Unveils FireAMP™ Mobile Security Solution to Protect Local Enterprises

FireSIGHT and FireAMP Mobile Provide Visibility and Control Needed to Identify and Block Mobile Malware on Enterprise Networks

Kuala Lumpur, JUNE 20 2012 - Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today unveils the FireAMP™ Mobile security solution that enables local enterprises protect against advanced threats that result from mobility and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) challenges.

Combined with FireSIGHT® technology, FireAMP™ Mobile provide organizations with Information Superiority that helps them to identify mobile devices connecting to the network, determine whether a device is at risk and then take measures to protect it.According to the Country Manager of Sourcefire Malaysia, Ivan Wen that BYOD is becoming the norm in today’s mobile enterprises. “Organizations need an increased level of security intelligence to identify risky behavior and applications on employee devices.”

“The newly launched FireAMP™ Mobile solution will provide company with visibility into the number and types of devices connecting to the network (iPhones/iPads, Blackberries, Android devices and more), as well as the applications they are running.”

“It then inspects mobile protocols to identify vulnerabilities and potential attacks against these devices, so that company can take appropriate measures to prevent and block mobile malware from spreading through the corporate networks.”

As organizations seek to securely integrate mobile, and especially employee-owned, devices into their corporate enterprises, Sourcefire’s solutions provide a comprehensive view into threats, vulnerabilities, devices, operating systems, applications, users, network behavior and files on the network that further allows organizations to rapidly adapt and respond to new changes and threats introduced in the network environments. Ivan Wen Country Manager of Sourcefire

The FireAMP™ Mobile integrates cloud-based analysis capabilities to deliver real-time protection against newly discovered threats. It also enables users to generate insightful reports with important threat intelligence that specific to their network environments. These reports include the top mobile malware incidents and blacklisted and/or non-whitelisted apps that have been installed on mobile devices.


Sourcefire推出FireAMP™流动设备网络安全解决方案予大马企业

FireSIGHT和FireAMP流动设备安全系统提供企业在网络交通上所需的可视性和控制力以监视及阻止恶意网络侵袭

吉隆坡，6月20日讯-Sourcefire，(Nasdaq: FIRE)，网络智能安全解决方案供应商，今天推出FireAMP™流动网络安全解决方案，让本地企业， 在自备流动性设备（BringYourOwnDevice， BYOD）趋势的挑战下， 对高技巧的恶意网络侵袭进行适当的保护。

结合FireSIGHT®的技术， FireAMP™流动网络安全解决方案帮助企业监察他们所有连接到网络的移动设备，确定其设备是否处于在危险中，然后采取措施以防止恶意网络侵袭。

据Sourcefire大马总监，文宏宏表示自备流动性设备（BYOD）在许多流动性质的企业已逐渐成为规范。 “企业必需增强其网络安全识别的能力， 已监察员工设备任何可能危险的网络活动。”

“新推出的FireAMP™流动安全解决方案将提升企业将流动设备连接到网络的能见度（iPhone/ ipad，黑莓，Android设备等），以及它们正在运用的应用程序。”

“然后， 确定这些设备对网罗的潜在的攻击，让公司可以采取适当的措施，以防止和阻止流动网络的恶意袭击，或病毒通过企业的网络传播。”

FireAMP™流动网络安全解决方案结合了基于云计算的分析能力，对新发现的病毒或攻击提供实时的保护。它还能帮助用户准备报告，提供具有重要网络威胁的情报，具体地报告其网络环境。这些报告包括顶端的流动网络的恶意软件侵袭事件等。