HP and FireEye today announced a partnership to make incident response, compromise assessment and threat detection offerings available to HP Enterprise Services' most strategic clients globally. HP will offer its customers a portfolio of security service offerings, including a suite of security remediation services underpinned by FireEye’s threat detection, intelligence, methodologies and incident response expertise.

HP has 5,000 security consultants, many of whom manage security operations on an outsourced basis for large corporate clients. Those consultants can now bring in FireEye's technology, which tests computer commands before they are executed, and the investigators at Mandiant, which FireEye acquired last year.

Together, HP Enterprise Services and FireEye will investigate, assess and resolve cyber security events ranging from single-system compromises to enterprise-wide intrusions by advanced attack groups that span hundreds of thousands of systems.

Advanced Compromise Assessment from HP and Mandiant will provide HP Enterprise Services strategic customers advanced compromise assessment and is the first step in transforming their IT security program.

"This partnership with HP extends FireEye’s growing influence in cyber security by bringing the expertise of our Mandiant team, the power of our threat intelligence resources, and the capabilities of FireEye as a Service and other offerings to one of the world’s leading providers of IT and security services," said Dave DeWalt, FireEye CEO and chairman of the board.

Offloading Snapfish

Stating with HP, the company said it planned to sell its Snapfish photo-sharing site to District Photo, part of the computer maker’s plan to refocus operations as it splits in two.

Snapfish works with retailers to help consumers store, share and print photos online. District Photo handles digital printing for business and other customers.

Terms of the deal, which was announced Tuesday, weren’t disclosed.

After Snapfish is sold, it will continue to use Hewlett-Packard printing services, the company said. Its PCs will still include the HP Connected Photo application developed by Snapfish.

Snapfish was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for an undisclosed amount in 2005.