While we were talking about Microsoft in a possible sale of the cybersecurity company Mandiant, now Google enters the dance. The Mountain View firm would be in discussion with the company according to The Information. The rumor had its first effects on the stock market, Mandiant’s rating having climbed 16% at the close of the Nasdaq.
Last month it was another media, Bloomberg, which placed Microsoft at the center of the discussions. The effect on the course of the company had also been similar, bringing its value beyond 4 billion dollars. Seeing Mandiant inflate Microsoft’s cybersecurity offerings seemed logical and smart, especially for its cloud division, Microsoft Azure. These benefits must have attracted the attention of other cloud players, since Google also seems interested.
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Like Microsoft’s Azure branch, Google Cloud is a growing business. If it continues to make Alphabet lose money, it still generated $19 billion in revenue in 2021. Extending this offer by offering new services related to cybersecurity would therefore make as much sense for Google Cloud than Microsoft Azure.
Mandiant is now valued at $4.53 billion. The company, like Google, did not respond to requests for comment from The Informationnor Writers. Also impossible to say if the merger with Microsoft is still relevant.