{"id":4582,"date":"2022-01-20T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/mcafee-and-fireeye-rename-themselves-trellix-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T07:12:07","slug":"mcafee-and-fireeye-rename-themselves-trellix-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/mcafee-and-fireeye-rename-themselves-trellix-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee and FireEye rename themselves \u2018Trellix\u2019 \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LogoWatch<\/span> Newly combined security outfits McAfee and FireEye<\/a> have revealed a new name: “Trellix”.<\/p>\n

Readers may find the name familiar, as another tech company used the same name in the 1990s and early 2000s when it offered intranet and web published tools such as Trellix Web.<\/p>\n

In 2001, this press release<\/a> announced that Trellix had licensed tech from a company called Pyra Labs, which operated a service called “Blogger”. Yes, that<\/i> Blogger \u2013 the platform Google acquired in 2003 and which was quickly found to have serious security problems<\/a>. A year after the Pyra Labs news, we reported that Trellix was acquired by Interland<\/a>, which rated it as possessing “the best technology in terms of novice users creating professional quality websites”.<\/p>\n

Symphony Technology Group (STG), which owns McAfee and FireEye, doesn’t want you to remember that incarnation of Trellix.<\/p>\n

Instead it wants you to ponder “the structure of a trellis, a strong and safe framework used to support structured growth of climbing plants and trees”. The x-factor is Trellix’s plan to offer extended detection and response tech (XDR) that uses AI to enable “living security” that changes as needed \u2026 and of course is desperately needed given the hordes of threats hiding in the weeds of the internet.<\/p>\n

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