HP partners with next- generation cybersecurity firms

Tech giant announces deals with FireEye, two others to beef up ‘ new school’ defense

SAN FRANCISCO — Several partnerships announced Tuesday between nimble next- generation cybersecurity companies and tech giant Hewlett- Packard are seen as examples of a coming wave of alliances as big data companies try to beef up their security.

An alliance between Milpitas- based FireEye and HP is likely to be followed by more partnerships between large tech companies and smaller, advanced network security companies, said tech analyst Daniel Ives of FBR Capital Markets.

Non- tech companies are shopping for more protection, too.

On Tuesday, HP described three new alliances as beefing up a “new school” cyberdefense, which it says emphasizes protecting interactions between users, applications and data, rather than the “old school” practice of securing the perimeter, in which data flows were restricted in the interests of security.

The two other alliances announced by HP were cloud security partnerships with Los Angeles- based Securonix, which specializes in insider threat management, and Adallom, a cloud security firm based in Palo Alto with research headquarters in Israel.

The cybersecurity partnerships were announced on a big stage Tuesday — the RSA Conference in San Francisco, where the interest in security has been heightened by the big- name network attacks of the past two years on such firms as Sony,