Sourcefire offers a way to track malware
Security vendor Sourcefire, Inc. has expanded its flagship FirePower appliance line that will enable solution providers to remediate malware attacks faster.
According to Mike Guiterman, SourceFire director of worldwide channel marketing, the Columbia, MD-based company's new version of FirePower can track files from the point of entry and then keep tabs on it as it moves throughout the network. If those files reveal that they are malware of somekind FirePower can locate and provide post-infection remediation.
Guiterman said that the security industry has traditionally handed malware at the inspection point. “They will say it's not a bad thing and let it go into the network. Then a week later you figure out its bad,” he said. The FirePower is a cloud-based offering that remembers each file and can track it throughout the network and see what it has done.
