GCP – Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response 2025 Vendor Assessment

Today’s cybersecurity landscape requires partners with expertise and resources to handle any incident. Mandiant, a core part of Google Cloud Security, can empower organizations to navigate critical moments, prepare for future threats, build confidence, and advance their cyber defense programs. 

We’re excited to announce that Google has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52036825, August 2025). According to the report, “Mandiant, now a core part of Google Cloud Security, continues to be one of the most recognized and respected names in incident response. With over two decades of experience, Mandiant has built a reputation for responding to some of the world’s most complex and high-impact cyberincidents.” We believe this recognition reflects Mandiant’s extensive experience in some of the world’s most complex and high-impact cyber incidents.

We employ a tightly coordinated “team of teams” model, integrating specialized groups for forensics, threat intelligence, malware analysis, remediation, and crisis communications to assist our customers quickly and effectively. 

Our expertise spans technologies and environments, from multicloud and on-premise systems to critical infrastructure. We help secure both emerging and mainstream  technologies including AI, Web3, cloud platforms, web applications, and identity systems.

“This structure allows Mandiant to deliver rapid, scalable, and highly tailored responses to incidents ranging from ransomware and nation-state attacks to supply chain compromises and destructive malware,” said the IDC MarketScape report.

Differentiated, rapid, and holistic incident response

Speed is crucial in cyber-incident response, and cyber events can quickly become a reputational crisis. Helping customers address those concerns drives our Incident Response Services. 

A key part of that is Mandiant’s Cyber Crisis Communication Planning and Response Services, launched in 2022. The IDC MarketScape noted, “The firm’s crisis communications practice, launched in 2022, is a unique offering in the IR space. Recognizing that cyberincidents are as much about trust and perception as they are about technology, Mandiant provides strategic communications support to help clients manage media inquiries, stakeholder messaging, and align with regulatory frameworks.” 

Our approach combines robust remediation, recovery, and resilience solutions, including repeatable and cost-effective minimal viable business recovery environments. Designed to restore critical operations after ransomware attacks, our offerings can help reduce recovery timelines from weeks to days — or even hours.

The report notes, “A key differentiator is Mandiant’s integration with Google’s SecOps platform, which enables rapid deployment of investigative capabilities without the need for lengthy software installations. This allows Mandiant to begin triage and scoping within hours, leveraging existing client telemetry and augmenting it with proprietary forensic tools like FACT and Monocle. These tools allow for deep forensic interrogation of endpoints and orchestration of data collection at enterprise scale — capabilities that go beyond what traditional EDR platforms offer.” 

Unparalleled access to threat intelligence

Google Threat Intelligence fuses Mandiant’s frontline expertise, the global reach of the VirusTotal community, and the visibility from Google’s services and devices — enhanced by AI. “As part of Google, Mandiant now benefits from unparalleled access to global infrastructure, engineering resources, and threat intelligence,” said the IDC MarketScape report.

By ensuring that this access is deeply embedded in Mandiant Incident Response and Consulting services, we can quickly identify threat actors, tactics, and indicators of compromise (IOCs). A dedicated threat intelligence analyst supports each incident response case, ensuring findings are contextualized and actionable.

Advancing cyber defenses with a strategic, global leader

For more than two decades, Mandiant experts have helped global enterprises respond to and recover from their worst days. We enable organizations to go beyond technology solutions, evaluate specific business threats, and strengthen their cyber defenses. 

As part of our commitment to helping organizations around the world, we encourage knowledge sharing through our public threat intelligence reports and playbooks, we operate a pro bono victim notification program, and we maintain partnerships with 59 law firms and 46 insurers, who often call Mandiant first when a client is breached.

“Organizations that seek to work with a globally capable IR firm with strong threat intelligence capabilities and that utilizes a holistic approach to incident response that goes beyond the technical portions should consider Google,” said the report.

Learn more — and strengthen your defenses today

You can read a complimentary excerpt of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response 2025 Vendor Assessment report here.