Google Cloud All Set To Strengthen Its Cybersecurity by Acquiring Mandiant For $5.4B

Business News News March 9th 2022

Google was beefing about its cybersecurity issues lately. Hence, the company has now agreed to buy Mandiant, a pioneer in dynamic cybersecurity and response, for $23 per share that if converted in cash comes to worth $5.4 billion, which includes Mandiant’s cash. Mandiant is soon to join Google Cloud immediately after the completion of the transaction.

This acquisition is considered the first of many that analysts foresee in the cybersecurity sector following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Analysts and Government officials have claimed that they expect the wave of cyberattacks from Russia and others, as the geopolitical tensions are rising.

According to Google, most organizations are now taking serious actions for cybersecurity threats that have increased in frequency, intensity, and variety, resulting in a global security imperative. Enterprises now must be able to quickly detect and respond to threats, analyze and automate threat intelligence to scale threat detection across organizations, orchestrate and automate remediation. Organizations should be able to validate their protection against known threats, and also visualize their IT environment to identify and simulate any new threats in order to address these risks.

Google stated that the cloud would promise a new method to shift the security paradigm, by assisting enterprises in addressing and protecting themselves against any type and class of cyberattacks and simultaneously fast speeding the digital transformation.

The Mandiant acquisition would strengthen the Google Cloud’s existing security. Google Cloud clients now will be able to take advantage of a wide range of services that includes groundbreaking capabilities such as BeyondCorp Enterprise for Zero Trust and Virus Total for malicious content and also software vulnerabilities, Chronicle’s planet-scale security analytics, and automation with services like Security Command Center in order to help organizations detect and protect themselves from cyber-attacks and Google Cloud’s Cybersecurity action Team expertise.

By acquiring Mandiant, Google Cloud would be able to provide a complete security operations suite with more features that will help clients in both cloud and on-premises settings.

Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud said, “organizations around the world are now facing unavoidable cybersecurity threats and challenges. Previously, the severity of attacks was used to target major governments, but now they are targeting companies from every industry. He further added we are extremely happy to welcome Mandiant to Google Cloud to further enhance our security operations suite and advisory services, and also to help our customers to address their most important security challenges”.

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Threat Intelligence Of Cybersecurity 

Mandiant would work on the front lines of cybersecurity with the world’s leading companies and provide the real-time and in-depth threat intelligence obtained through it to Google Cloud. So, their acquisition with Google Cloud’s native security capabilities would assist companies across the world to stay secure at every stage of the security lifecycle 

Advisory Service: Mandiant provides the complete incident response, strategic preparation, and technical assurance so that customers can minimize threats and decrease business risks before, during, and after an event.

Threat Detection and Intelligence:  Using Mandiant’s experience of identifying and responding to sophisticated adversaries, customers can gain meaningful insights into the threats that matter now.

Automation and Response Tools: Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Simplify solutions along with Mandiant’s Automated Defence to evaluate, prioritize, and simplify threats response can be used by customers. Customers can use Mandiant’s knowledge as a virtual extension to their teams.

Testing and Validation: Mandiant Security Validation supports Google Cloud’s Security Command Center that allows users to continually test and monitor their performance of cybersecurity rules across cloud and on-premises systems.

Managed Defence: Mandiant’s managed detection and response solution that works as an extension of the client’s security teams will provide continuous monitoring, event triage, and threat hunting regardless of endpoint or network infrastructure.

Kevin Mandia, CEO at Mandiant said, “Cybersecurity has become very crucial at this time. Since the company was founded in 2004, Mandiant’s mission has always been to combat cyberattacks and protect our customers from the latest cyber threats. To take to end, we are thrilled to be joining forces with Google Cloud. Together we will change the security industry by delivering expertise and intelligence”.

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