Security News > 2022 > October > If you're wondering why Google blew $5b on Mandiant, this may shed some light

Mandia spoke with reporters for the first time about his threat-intel-slash-incident-response company's new owner during a press briefing ahead of Google Cloud Next, which kicked off today in San Francisco and virtually.

Google Cloud brings expertise in big data, analytics, and artificial intelligence, he added.

With its latest multi-billion-dollar purchase, Google Cloud security will soon be able to combine offense with defense, according to Phil Venables, chief information security officer at Google Cloud.

Chronicle pulls threat data from two in-house sources, VirusTotal and Google Cloud Threat Intelligence, integrates alert management between the SIEM and SOAR components, and provides pre-packaged response playbooks to alerts.

In the future, according to Google Cloud execs, Chronicle will also include Mandiant's incident and exposure management plus threat intelligence capabilities.

It aims to secure code across its entire lifecycle, from development to production, and spans a ton of Google Cloud services from developer tooling to runtimes like Google Kubernetes Engine and its Cloud Run serverless platform.

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