• Is FireEye getting access to all Win10 telemetry data?

    Posted on November 23, 2016 at 19:43 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Martin Brinkmann on gHacks is quoting a report from an Australian news magazine ARN that says:

    FireEye has recently struck a deal Microsoft, designed to place the security vendor’s iSIGHT Intelligence into Windows Defender, an inbuilt Windows security offering.

    Terms of the deal will see FireEye gain access to telemetry from every device running Windows 10.

    FireEye, of course, is a cyber security firm, with deep ties in the corporate and cybersecurity worlds.

    ARN goes on to say:

    While the vendor has since backtracked on this statement – stating that the process would take longer than originally predicted – the direction of travel is clear.

    I can’t imagine that it’s true, but the report’s scary.

    UPDATE: Betanews reports a Microsoft spokesperson has contacted them with a clarification:

    The nature of the deal between Microsoft and FireEye is to license threat intelligence content from FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence. This additional layer of intelligence includes indicators and reports of past attacks collected and edited by FireEye and enhances detection capabilities of Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP). The deal does not include the sharing of Microsoft telemetry.

    That seems far, far more likely to me than the original reports.

    T/h poosticks

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