Google has today announced that it has signed an settlement to purchase Mandiant, a notable cybersecurity firm, for $5.4 billion. The unit, as soon as acquired, can be folded into Google’s Cloud staff to make sure that it may well provide an “end-to-end security operations suite” for its enterprise clients. Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia says that the deal will allow “organizations [to] effectively, efficiently and continuously manage and configure their complex mix of security products.” Google’s cloud platform is utilized by quite a lot of main firms, and an outage in the direction of the tip of 2021 briefly knocked out Spotify, Snapchat, Etsy and Discord, amongst others.

Mandiant isn’t more likely to be a reputation on everybody’s lips, nevertheless it’s a kind of firms who will get referred to as in every time dangerous issues go down. It found the SolarWinds hack, and it was employed by Equifax to look into its safety practices after its large safety snafu in 2017, and T-Mobile entered into partnership with the corporate after its 2021 breach. It additionally works with main banks and governments to work on high-profile assaults involving state actors. Mandiant was beforehand part of FireEye after being acquired in 2013, however the firm was spun again out final 12 months.

The information comes only a month after Bloomberg reported that Microsoft is perhaps focused on buying the corporate. It mentioned that any deal would allow its new purchaser to supply “unparalleled cybersecurity knowledge,” though Microsoft — clearly — subsequently pulled out of negotiations. But Google clearly feels that the deal is value it, and is the second most costly buy the corporate has ever made, after its $12.5 billion buy of Motorola.