San Francisco, Sep 13 : Google has completed the $5.4 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Mandiant, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced.Mandiant is joining Google Cloud to help organisations improve their threat exposure, incident and exposure management.
“We will continue to use Mandiant as a brand.
Mandiant brand name and will continue to ensure that every company is secure from cyber-attacks and secure in their security,” Kurian said in an announcement.
Mandiant is a renowned researcher for discovering the SolarWinds hack that shocked the entire world.
Many large corporations including tech giants such as Intel, Cisco, VMware and Nvidia were impacted as a result of the SolarWinds hack, which was allegedly orchestrated by Russian-backed cybercriminals.
The Russian hackers installed malware in the Orion software that is distributed by the IT management firm SolarWinds and gained access to sensitive data belonging to a number of US federal agencies, including at the very least, one hospital and an academic institution.
Kurian claimed that combining Google Cloud’s current security capabilities with Mandiant’s most advanced cyber-security intelligence “will enable us to provide an operations suite for security to aid enterprises worldwide in staying secure throughout the entire course of the security cycle”.
“With the sheer volume of Google’s processing of data capabilities, innovative analytics methods with AI and machine learning and an emphasis on eliminating entire classes of security threats, Google Cloud and Mandiant will enable companies to reinvent security in order to meet the demands of our ever-changing global environment,” he emphasised.
By incorporating Mandiant’s attack surface management features to the Google Cloud portfolio, organizations will be able to constantly monitor assets for exposures and enable red and intelligence teams to shift security programmes from being reactive and identify what’s vulnerable, insecure and exposed.
“The combination of Google Cloud and Mandiant and their commitment to multicloud will help to increase collaboration, enabling innovation in the cybersecurity industry and increasing the capabilities of threat research.
We are looking eagerly to work with them to accomplish this goal,” said Paolo Dal Cin, Global Lead, Accenture Security.
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