HP, FireEye, Others in “New School” Cybersecurity Collaborations

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) disclosed three security-centric partnerships at this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, which the vendor said represent a “new school of cyber defense,” signing on with big name FireEye (FEYE), threat management provider Securonix and cloud security specialist Adallom.

The new cyber security approach to which HP refers involves protecting the interactions between users, applications, and data exchanges. Where perimeter defense once was the dominant thinking, now analytics, data-centric cloud access protection, mobile application reputation analysis, contextual threat intelligence sharing, and incident response are primary tools.

Among HP’s new partnerships, the headliner is the vendor’s deal with FireEye, which calls for the two companies to jointly develop an industry standard reference architecture to give customers a blueprint for advanced threat protection services and incident response capabilities.

FireEye said its Mandiant investigative group is key to the collaboration, and together with HP will offer incident response, compromise assessment and managed threat protection services. The companies positioned their threat analysts partnership as an extension of an organization’s existing cyber security team.

“HP is committed to addressing the evolving IT needs of customers, and this partnership with FireEye targets a critical priority–protecting our customers’ critical information assets from advanced cyber-attacks, supporting our strategy to be a world-class provider of security services,” said Mike Nefkens, HP Enterprise Services executive vice president.

HP said its collaboration with security analytics provider Securonix will yield an interoperable security intelligence offering to help companies track and identify intruders.

The vendor also said its partnership with cloud access security broker Adallom will deliver enhanced security monitoring, governance and control capabilities to customers. HP said Adallom’s platform aligns with its Atalla cloud security portfolio.

In addition, HP added a new BYOD offering to its security lineup that enables HP Fortify on Demand customers to request free reputation and behavioral analysis of company-owned applications or those found in major app stores worldwide.