Mandiant CEO: We will automate threat intel with Google

Last week, Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant spoke at the annual Google Cloud Next conference with ambitious vision. His vision for Mandiant is clear: automate threat intelligence and security expertise with the speed and analytics of Google. Mandiant was acquired by Google last month for $5.4 billion.

“We are now combining our security expertise and our threat intel with the AI and compute speed and analytics of Google so we can bring this vision to everyone,” he said during a keynote at last week’s Google Cloud Next conference.

Mandia continued, “We can effectively automate the often human intensive process of understanding the threat actors, find a needle in the haystack and be able to do “Shields Up” against these attacks. And together we can deliver on that shared mission of a more secure world.”

Mandiant is renown amongst the cybersecurity community for its best-of-breed threat intelligence, cybersecurity consultants, and incident response specialists. Its customers include global governments, commercial enterprise, and private organizations that face challenging cyber breaches.

“We are the emergency room doctors when you need them most,” Mandia has boasted about Mandiant services.

Google Cloud, on the other hand, brings to the table artificial intelligence, big data and analytics that are market-leading. Combined, the two entities—and Mandiant will retain its own branding—will provide a one-two punch, balanced defensive cyber capability previously unavailable at this scale.’

“If we can take that Mandiant expertise of finding the needle in the haystack, every day, and automate it, that’s what everybody wants,” Mandia said. “And that’s what we can do with Google Cloud.”

Google and Mandiant have already gone to market with a joint capability solution called Mandiant Breach Analytics. This platform can integrate with existing Chronicle deployments to deliver threat intelligence, analytics and reporting across the solutions.

It’s just the first capability of many more to likely come between the two companies.

Disclaimer: The author of this article is a current employee of Google. This article does not represent the views or opinions of his employer, and is not meant to be an official statement for Google, Google Cloud, or Mandiant, now a part of Google.