FireEye Acquires Respond Software to Advance Cybersecurity AI - Security Boulevard

FireEye Inc., a provider of managed security services augmented by machine learning algorithms, has acquired Respond Software, a provider of a platform that automates security incident investigations, for $186 million. Peter Bailey, executive vice president and COO for FireEye, said the acquisition of Respond Software adds eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) capabilities to better leverage the expertise of both the FireEye platform and security professionals who use it to manage security on behalf of customers. XDR is designed to make it easier to correlate events across endpoints and network traffic flows to identify cybersecurity threats more accurately. Respond Software will also be integrated into the portfolio of services that FireEye makes available via Mandiant Solutions, an arm of the company that focuses on threat intelligence and security posture assessments. The Respond Analyst XDR engine leverages cloud-based data science models that ingest data from a range of security technologies in real-time.