Google Makes A Cybersecurity Splash With $5.4B Mandiant Acquisition To Fortify Its Cloud
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The acquisition is still pending regulatory and stockholder approvals, but the deal is expected to close later this year and would see Google acquire Mandiant for $23 per share. So long as the deal closes, it will be Google’s second-largest acquisition after the company’s purchase of Motorola Mobility back in 2011 for $12.5 billion. The Mandiant deal will bump Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest in 2014 down into third place.
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If Google’s acquisition goes through, Mandiant will join Google Cloud after operating independently for less than a year. Kevin Mandia, now CEO of just Mandiant again, had positive things to say about the pending acquisition: "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."
Google Cloud’s CEO, Thomas Kurian, had an equally positive statement: "The Mandiant brand is synonymous with unmatched insights for organizations seeking to keep themselves secure in a constantly changing environment. This is an opportunity to deliver an end-to-end security operations suite and extend one of the best consulting organizations in the world."
You can read both Mandiant and Google’s press releases for further details.