Google is buying the cybersecurity company that uncovered the SolarWinds hack
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#5WW9E)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is buying cybersecurity company Mandiant in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion.
Mandiant's operations, which draw on the work of more than 600 security consultants and more than 300 intelligence analysts, will be folded into Google Cloud to create an end-to-end security operations suite." A range of services will be offered, from consulting on cybersecurity to detecting upcoming threats and testing company's digital defenses.
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," Google Cloud's CEO Thomas Kurian said in...