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San Francisco \u2013 Google has completed the $5.4 billion acquisition of cyber-security firm Mandiant, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced.<\/p>\n
Mandiant will join Google Cloud to help organisations improve their threat, incident and exposure management.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will retain the Mandiant brand and continue Mandiant\u2019s mission to make every organisation secure from cyber threats and confident in their readiness,\u201d Kurian said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Mandiant is known for unearthing the SolarWinds hack that shook the world.<\/p>\n
Several big companies, including tech giants like Intel, Cisco, VMware and Nvidia, suffered part of the SolarWinds hack allegedly orchestrated by Russia-backed cybercriminals.<\/p>\n
The Russian hackers installed malware in the Orion software sold by the IT management company SolarWinds, and accessed sensitive data belonging to several US government agencies, at least one hospital and a university.<\/p>\n
Kurian said that combining Google Cloud\u2019s existing security portfolio with Mandiant\u2019s leading cyber threat intelligence \u201cwill allow us to deliver a security operations suite to help enterprises globally stay protected at every stage of the security lifecycle\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the scale of Google\u2019s data processing, novel analytics approaches with AI and machine learning, and a focus on eliminating entire classes of threats, Google Cloud and Mandiant will help organisations reinvent security to meet the requirements of our rapidly changing world,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n
By adding Mandiant\u2019s attack surface management capabilities to Google Cloud\u2019s portfolio, organisations will be able to continually monitor assets for exposures, enabling intelligence and red teams to move security programmes from reactive to proactive to understand what\u2019s vulnerable, misconfigured and exposed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe combination of Google Cloud and Mandiant and their commitment to multicloud will further support increased collaboration, driving innovation across the cybersecurity industry and augmenting threat research capabilities. We look forward to working with them on this mission,\u201d said Paolo Dal Cin, Global Lead, Accenture Security.<\/p>\n
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