On Friday (December 6), Binance reported the findings of security audits conducted by cybersecurity firms FireEye and SlowMist.

FireEye’s Assessment

Binance’s blog post says that California-based cybersecurity firm FireEye, Inc. has been helping to enhance Binance’s network security since May 2019.

FireEye, which was founded in 2004, apparently has 8200+ customers in 103 countries, is used by 50% of the Forbes Global 2000, and has 3200+ employees worldwide.

In its most recent report on Binance, it says:

“Binance has invested heavily in information security, complete organization structure relating to information security, clearly defined responsibilities and standardized processes for day-to-day management & maintenance.”

It goes on to add:

“What is worth mentioning here is the Binance approaches security incidents in a timely and transparent manner, which sets Binance apart from many other companies that elect to evade or conceal the problems out of consideration of their own interests. This attitude adopted by Binance toward the users shows that Binance is a company that is indeed responsible to the users, puts the interests of the users above all and takes security as its lifeline.”

SlowMist’s Assessment

As for Xiamen SlowMist Technology Co., Ltd. (“SlowMist”), a cybsersecurity firm headquartered in Xiamen, China, it seems as though it was founded by a team with members who have experience of previously working at Google, Microsoft, W3C, The Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China, Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu.

SlowMist used its Blockchain Threat Intelligence System (BTI) to prepare its latest safety monitoring report on Binance.

In this report, SlowMist says that it was first contacted by Binance in December 2018, and that since then it has “done a lot of security monitoring work for Binance.”

It then goes to say:

“Binance’s production environment architecture, server security, application security, wallet private key security, office environment security and other important security projects are currently in high quality. At the same time, Binance’s risk control system is perfect and equipped with a number of measures to ensure the safety of user assets. SlowMist’s overall evaluation of Binance’s current security system is: Excellent.”

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