Google announced this Monday (12) that it has completed the acquisition of Mandiant, a Virginia-based US cybersecurity company with 18 years of experience and professionals spanning 22 countries that provides preventive intelligence services and responds to incidents in its IT infrastructure. large companies and organizations around the world
According to Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, the combination of the two portfolios “will enable us to offer a range of security operations to help protect companies globally at all stages of the security lifecycle.”
The focus of the Mandiant merger – will ensure the protection of the brand – Our goal is to help two leading cybersecurity giants prepare for an increase in data processing and new approaches to AI and machine learning and analytics. working together “in eliminating all classes of threats”The two companies hope to help organizations reinvent cybersecurity.
Verify security issues before they occur
Since Google Cloud announced Risk Protection Program Aiming to protect company accounts from potential targeted online attacks, in March last year the security focus was on a common target model.
This means “working directly with organizations to verify potential security issues.” before it becomes an event“In this sense, it is not enough to detect, investigate and respond to threats. It is also important to understand how attackers view organizations and to evaluate whether cybersecurity controls are effective enough.
Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia stated on his blog that by combining the knowledge and skills of Google Cloud and Mandiant, it will provide an operations platform that will act as a “security brain” that will scale teams to tackle the world’s shortage of experts. .
Source: Tec Mundo
