Google has announced it’s buying prominent cybersecurity firm Mandiant in an all-cash transaction that values the business at $5.4 billion. Google’s bid for Mandiant comes a few weeks after rumors that Microsoft, a major rival in security and cloud computing, had been eyeing the business to further strengthen its own security offerings. At $23 a share, Google’s offer represents a 57% premium to Mandiant’s share price when news of Microsoft’s purported interest began spreading in February. Mandiant will bolster Google Cloud’s security offerings as it seeks to compete more aggressively with Microsoft, AWS and other cloud giants. Do you think that Google is trying to dominate the technology space ?

