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Though still privately held, FireEye is getting plenty of attention right now because its anti-malware sandboxing technology is something a number of other vendors want to emulate -- and FireEye's growing commercial success is inching it toward possibly going public later this year.
McAfee and Palo Alto Networks are among the larger security firms that acknowledge some of their latest technologies are intended to "be like FireEye." Palo Alto's is a an anti-malware cloud-based technology dubbed WildFire, and McAfee just last week announced it acquired the ValidEdge sandboxing technology in order to develop a new on-premises product line later this year.
FireEye, based in Milpitas, Calif., does seem to be on a roll: Last November the company snagged former McAfee President Dave DeWalt to be its CEO, and last month it raised $50 million in new venture-capital funding. Though FireEye wants to tamp down...