SAN FRANCISCO — Important dates and figures in the history of cybersecurity firm FireEye:
2004: Company founded by Ashar Aziz, a former Sun Microsystems engineer.
2006: Introduced first product, a computing network appliance for identifying malware.
2012: Board Chairman David DeWalt becomes CEO.
2013: Company has initial public stock offering.
2014: Buys Mandiant, another security firm, in a cash and stock deal valued at $1 billion.
2014 2013
Number of employees 2,418 1,679