Singtel Optus and FireEye anticipate spending up to $US50 million over five years on security operations centres in the region, including one in Sydney to open next year.
The Sydney facility, expected to open in early 2015, will join another to be built in Singapore. Up to 150 staff will be trained to operate the two facilities.
The “ground breaking” partnership will also see Optus offer the first “managed defence” solution from FireEye in the Asia Pacific region. Called Optus Managed Defence Powered by FireEye, the service will include 24x7 monitoring and intrusion prevention.
FireEye has already been building its presence in Australia, where it operates purely via the channel. It acquire threat intelligence and incident response provider Mandiant this year, which then appointed a country manager backed up by a local team. FireEye also works with the likes of White Gold, Observatory Crest, Dimension Data, Datacom TSS, IPSec and SecureWare.
The deal follows Optus’ announcement in June of a Security Centre of Excellence. The carrier lists managed firewall, DDoS, intrusion detection, content security and secure Internet gateways among its security offerings.
FireEye’s sales pitch is that MSPs are at risk of missing threats as they are swamped by millions of false positive alerts. FireEye CEO David DeWalt criticised traditional signature-based detection, arguing that FireEye’s model is “completely different” by putting virtual machines and agents onto endpoints and servers which don’t rely on signatures.
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