Google Acquires Mandiant to Boost Google Cloud Security Services

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• BeyondCorp Enterprise for Zero Trust and VirusTotal for malicious content and software vulnerabilities;
• Chronicle’s planet-scale security analytics and automation coupled with services such as Security Command Center to help organizations detect and protect themselves from cyber threats;
• as well as expertise from Google Cloud’s Cybersecurity Action Team.

“Organizations around the world are facing unprecedented cybersecurity challenges as the sophistication and severity of attacks that were previously used to target major governments are now being used to target companies in every industry. We look forward to welcoming Mandiant to Google Cloud to further enhance our security operations suite and advisory services, and help customers address their most important security challenges.”

“There has never been a more critical time in cybersecurity. Since our founding in 2004, Mandiant’s mission has been to combat cyber attacks and protect our customers from the latest threats. To that end, we are thrilled to be joining forces with Google Cloud. Together, we will deliver expertise and intelligence at scale, changing the security industry.”

1. Created a technical alliances group to connect Mandiant’s intelligence expertise and advantage platform to other security product companies. Among the first moves is a Splunk relationship, which enables Splunk customers to operationalize Mandiant threat intelligence for adversary detection; interact directly with Mandiant experts for incident response; and validate their security posture against emerging and novel attacks, he said.
2. Formed a strategic alliances group for system integrators and MSSPs. “We plan to enable integrators and MSSP to use the Mandiant advantage platform to deliver security transformation and modernization programs for their customers,” he said.
3. Created an industry aligned expert team to “help us navigate and deliver tailored strategic services to various industry sectors such as finance, healthcare, defense utilities, among others; addressing their specific requirements based on mission, regulations and the risk profile,” he said.
4. Hired a new leader to create a strategic alliance program targeting partnerships with global governments.
5. Hired a new channel lead to create and manage a channel program that addresses the middle market in an efficient way.

1. A multi-vendor managed defense capability, which no longer requires Mandiant customers to run FireEye’s products. “Now our customers can rely on Mandiant expertise and intelligence to leverage the controls and vendors that they choose,” he said.
2. Launching active breach and Intel monitoring capabilities the first quarter of 2022. “This capability enables visibility into Mandiant threat intelligence in real time. It is the functional equivalent of collaborating with our incident responders in the field, proactively checking our customers’ environment with the most up-to-date intelligence available as respond to the new and novel cyber attacks,” he said.
3. Rolling out a Ransomware defense validation solution, which “tests a customer’s ability to defend against the ransomware attacks we are seeing in the field and provides unvarnished truth about an organization’s readiness to various ransomware actors,” he said.
4. Acquiring Intrigue, which “allows Mandiant to deliver attack surface management or ASM as another module in the Mandiant advantage platform,” he said. ASM identifies how organizations could be compromised by identifying applications that are visible, vulnerable and exploitable. Mandiant plans to integrate attack service management into the Mandiant Advantage Platform in the first quarter of 2022, he said.