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> Mandiant is Google's incident response consulting business

Consulting business? I was under the impression (from Google Reader) that if users aren’t in the millions, then they’ll kill the project. How could they also run a high-touch consultancy?!

> they're probably sick of going to the same old engagements

Hmm… consultancies love this type of recurring revenue - it’s easy money

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Google is a quarter million person company (if you count full time, temps, vendors and contractors).

Google Cloud is basically an entirely different company than Search or Maps. Cloud will happily sell you $10m in compute a year and a value add $400k of security consulting.

> Consulting business? I was under the impression (from Google Reader) that if users aren’t in the millions, then they’ll kill the project. How could they also run a high-touch consultancy?!

Google also has the Project Zero which doesn't fit into Google business culture either. I wonder if Mandiant is paying for their payroll.

Project Zero has been around for 8 years before the Mandiant acquisition.

My bad. Still not sure which business unit is paying for their payroll.

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