Google introduced one in all its largest acquisitions on Tuesday, paying roughly $5.4 billion for the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, a supplier of companies that assist companies put together for and reply to cyberattacks.
In including extra cybersecurity companies, Google is making an attempt to distinguish its cloud computing enterprise from that of Amazon and Microsoft. The rival firms have had a bigger share of the cloud marketplace for leasing servers, computing energy and web companies to different firms.
The acquisition of Mandiant, which is predicated in Virginia and has greater than 2,300 staff, is Google’s second-largest deal ever, trailing solely the corporate’s $12.5 acquisition of the telephone firm Motorola that was introduced in 2011, in line with Dan Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities.