Google Completes Acquisition of Mandiant

Google announced on September 12 that it has completed its acquisition of Mandiant. Mandiant will join Google Cloud and retain the Mandiant brand. According to the press release, Google Cloud customers and partners benefit from pioneering security capabilities including world-class threat intelligence, zero trust architecture, and planet-scale analytics for security operations. Thomas Kurian’s post on the Google Cloud blog lists what Google gets: Mandiant Threat Intelligence, incident response services, attack surface management and Mandiant Security Validation. When the deal was announced in March, Google offered $23 per share in cash, about $5.4 billion including Mandiant’s net cash, for more than 600 consultants and over 300 intelligence analysts. As SiliconANGLE notes, Kurian promised that Mandiant threat research will still be shared with organizations that don’t run on Google Cloud. Good, because attackers rarely check which cloud you’re on first.