FireEye has announced FireEye OS 7.1 will be generally available by the end of February 2014.
This is a major update to the FireEye OS that offers more scalable management capabilities to the CM series, IPv6 network security support to the NX series, and enhanced email threat analysis capabilities to the EX series.
The upgraded OS introduces security enhancements including security analysis of IPv6 network traffic within the NX series and enhanced email analysis of malicious files delivered through HTTP in the EX series.
FireEye EX now analyses emails not only for malicious attachments, but also performs email header analysis and analyses the URLs linking to suspicious files. This enables FireEye to apply email specific threat intelligence to enhance detection and identification of advanced persistent threats (APTs).
“Over the course of our beta test we caught attacks that got through other layers of security,” said Dimitri Limanovski, principal security engineer at Ellucian. “It wasn’t the number of attacks that got through; it was the nature of what was attacking our network. We need to stop the most potent zero-day attacks and the new dynamic URL scanning from FireEye kept these from hitting our network.”
FireEye OS 7.1 updates the CM management platform to scale to hundreds of FireEye appliances and provides a central management system that scales as organizations deploy the complete FireEye protection architecture with NX, EX, FX, and AX platforms.
In addition, the release updates the local management within the NX, EX, and CM series with new role-based access controls, audit logging, complex passwords, and improved appliance health monitoring.
FireEye OS 7.1 can also secure IPv6 traffic. The FireEye NX series protects networks ranging from 10 Mbps to 4 Gbps. Organizations of all sizes can consolidate IT resources and lower the total cost of threat protection while choosing a solution that can scale as IPv6 adoption gains momentum throughout networks worldwide.
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