Security News > 2022 > March > Google buys threat intel giant Mandiant for $5.4bn

Google is buying pre-eminent threat intel firm Mandiant for $5.4bn, the two companies announced this morning.

"Cyber security is a mission, and we believe it's one of the most important of our generation. Google Cloud shares our mission-driven culture to bring security to every organization," said Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant in a canned statement.

Thomas Kurian, chief executive of Google Cloud, said in a statement: "This is an opportunity to deliver an end-to-end security operations suite and extend one of the best consulting organizations in the world. Together we can make a profound impact in securing the cloud, accelerating the adoption of cloud computing, and ultimately make the world safer."

After Google bought VirusTotal and many other things; the amount of insight one business will have will be huge.

The Motorola buyout ended after just three years with Mountain View taking a $9bn hit by selling the mobile-maker to Lenovo; Google did retain Moto's patent portfolio.

As long as Google doesn't do to Mandiant what it did to Google+, all should go well.

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