Google to buy cybersecurity firm Mandiant for US$5.4bil

The Mandiant website on a laptop computer. Google agreed to acquire the cybersecurity company for US$5.4bil, its second-biggest deal ever. — Bloomberg

Google agreed to purchase cybersecurity company Mandiant Inc for US$5.4bil (RM22.60bil), adding Internet security products that will bolster the technology giant’s cloud-computing business as it takes on larger rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp.

The acquisition, Google’s second-biggest ever, signals that the Alphabet Inc company has stepped off the sidelines of large dealmaking despite intense regulatory scrutiny. As it seeks to expand its third-place cloud-infrastructure unit, which sells computing power and storage via the Internet, buying Mandiant will give Google a fuller range of software tools to protect clients by responding quickly to online threats.