Google’s $5.4B Mandiant Merger: 5 Big Security Plans Ahead

Mandiant To Be Injected Into Google’s ‘Shared Fate’ Model

Google Cloud operates in a “shared fate” model, which aims to go beyond existing cloud security models to help customers not only reduce risk, but build a comprehensive and more efficient risk management program.

“For security operations, that means helping organizations find and validate potential security issues before they become an incident,” said Kurian in a blog post Monday regarding its shared fate model.

“Detecting, investigating and responding to threats is only part of better cyber risk management. It’s also crucial to understand what an organization looks like from an attacker’s perspective and if an organization’s cybersecurity controls are as effective as expected,” Kurian said.

To enhance its shared fate model, Google Cloud plans to add Mandiant’s attack surface management capabilities to its portfolio to enable organizations to continually monitor assets for exposure.

Adding Mandiant’s technologies will allow security teams to move security programs from reactive to proactive to understand what’s vulnerable, misconfigured and exposed.

With the addition of the Mandiant Security Validation offering, Google customers will be able to continually validate and measure the effectiveness of their cybersecurity controls across cloud and on-premises environments.

Mandiant CEO Mandia said he’s a “proponent” of Google’s shared fate model.

“By taking an active stake in the security posture of customers, we can help organizations find and validate potential security issues before they become an incident,” Mandia said in a blog post Monday. “Google Cloud and Mandiant have the knowledge and skills to provide an incredibly efficient and effective security operations platform. We are building a ‘security brain’ that scales our team to address the expertise shortage.”