FireEye EX Series: EX-3400, EX-5400, EX-8400, EX-8420

Certificate

Module description

Quoted from the NIST CMVP entry for this certificate.

The FireEye EX series secures against advanced email attacks. As part of the FireEye Threat Prevention Platform, the FireEye EX uses signature-less technology to analyze every email attachment and successfully quarantine spear-phishing emails used in advanced targeted attacks.

Security level exceptions

• Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 3
• Design Assurance: Level 3
• Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A

Approved algorithms (8)

Other algorithms

Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 150 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); ECDH (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 256 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 or 150 bits of encryption strength); MD5; DES; RC4; HMAC MD5

Tested configurations

• N/A

Validation history

Status timeline

As observed by this tracker's snapshots. NIST publishes no dates for list moves; observation began 2026-08-21, so earlier changes carry no date.

• 2026-08-21: first observed by this tracker, status historical
• Validation dates on record: 2015-12-16

Source documents

• NIST certificate page
• Security policy (PDF)
• Consolidated certificate (PDF)