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Google named a Leader in the External Threat Intelligence Service Forrester Wave™

September 17, 2026cloud.google.com

Google was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026, receiving a perfect score of 5.0 across nine criteria.

Why it matters

This enables security teams to identify threats faster and increase efficiency, which reduces the time attackers can remain undetected in a network.

The big picture

This confirms that Mandiant operates as part of Google's broader security and threat intelligence infrastructure.

The details

Google is the only evaluated vendor that develops frontier AI models and participates in quantum computing. The Google Threat Intelligence Group comprises researchers from over 30 countries. Users of Google Security Operations can utilize specialized Triage, Detection, and Hunting agents. Attribution is mapped directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

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Key connections

Google owns Mandiant
Google Threat Intelligence uses Gemini
Google Threat Intelligence has direct access to a leading frontier model
Google Threat Intelligence uses Mandiant
Underpinning these capabilities is the unified visibility provided by Mandiant’s frontline incident response
Google Threat Intelligence uses VirusTotal
Underpinning these capabilities is the unified visibility provided by... VirusTotal’s crowdsourced visibility
Google Threat Intelligence is related to MITRE ATT&CK
Our rigorous, evidence-based attribution maps directly to MITRE ATT&CK
Google Security Operations uses Google Threat Intelligence
customers using Google Security Operations can directly leverage Google Threat Intelligence enrichments