Google is buying the cybersecurity company that uncovered the SolarWinds hack

Google is buying cybersecurity company Mandiant in an all-cash transaction

valued at approximately $5.4 billion.

 Mandiant's operations, which draw on the work of more than 600 security

consultants and more than 300 intelligence analysts, will be folded into Google

Cloud to create an "end-to-end security operations suite." A range of services

will be offered, from consulting on cybersecurity to detecting upcoming threats

and testing company's digital defenses.

 "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,"

 Google Cloud's CEO Thomas Kurian said in a blog post.

 "We look forward to welcoming Mandiant to Google Cloud to further enhance

our security operations suite and advisory services,

 and help customers address their most important security challenges."

 Mandiant is perhaps best known for uncovering the devastating SolarWinds

attack

 compromised computers across the US federal government.

 The attack went unnoticed for the best part of a year until Mandiant reported

details of the operation in December 2020.