Google announced one of its largest acquisitions Tuesday, paying
roughly $5.4 billion for the cybersecurity company Mandiant, a provider of
services that help businesses prepare for and respond to cyberattacks.
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In adding more cybersecurity services, Google is trying to
differentiate its cloud computing business from that of Amazon and Microsoft.
The rival companies have had a larger share of the cloud market for leasing
servers, computing power and internet services to other companies.
“Organizations around the world are facing unprecedented
cybersecurity challenges as the sophistication and severity of attacks that
were previously used to target major governments are now being used to target
companies in every industry,” Thomas Kurian, the chief executive of Google
Cloud, said in a statement.
The acquisition of Mandiant, which is based in Virginia and has
more than 2,300 employees, is Google’s second-largest deal ever, trailing only
the company’s $12.5 billion acquisition of the phone company Motorola, which was
announced in 2011, said Dan Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities.
The deal is likely to draw antitrust scrutiny. Authorities in
the United States and European Union have pledged to look more closely at
acquisitions made by Google and other tech giants.
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