Mandiant launches Breach Analytics for Google Chronicle

Mandiant has launched Breach Analytics, a new threat intelligence product for Google Cloud’s Chronicle platform. Mandiant Breach Analytics combines a combination of Mandiant-proprietary and open-source threat intelligence with Google Cloud’s Chronicle Security Operations suite.

The new offering will provide best-in-class cybersecurity threat intelligence, monitoring indicators of compromise (IOC) “while using contextual information and machine learning to prioritize matches,” according to the press release.

Mandiant states that the new offering will help automate cybersecurity incident detection and response. With an average “attack dwell time”—the length of time an attacker remains on a network undetected—of 21 days, time is crucial to detect and respond to a breach.

Key capabilities of Mandiant Breach Analytics will help enable organizations to:

• Strengthen cyber defense posture
• Gain insight on breach activity in IT environments
• Analyze cloud-sale security data
• Build resilience against threats that matter most
• Reduce the cost of current approaches

Mike Armistead, Head of Mandiant Advantage Product, elaborated on the impact Breach Analytics should make in customer environments.

“Mandiant Breach Analytics solves this problem by automatically analyzing IT environments for signs of an active breach leveraging Mandiant’s up-to-the-minute insight on and prioritization of threats. The integration with Chronicle Security Operations can deliver immediate value to our shared customers, helping them to rapidly detect and respond to a breach.”

Existing customers of Google Cloud Chronicle and Security Operations users can inquire about adding Breach Analytics to their existing environment.

Future integrations with other SIEM tools are also planned, but unannounced at this time.

Pricing is also not publicly available, but will be based upon the number of employees an organization has, and overall company size.

Mandiant pledges that pricing will be “fixed and predictable.”

Mandiant was acquired by Google officially last month for $5.4 billion.

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.