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Microsoft negotiates and values ​​the purchase of the cybersecurity company Mandiant

Microsoft is in negotiations to buy the cybersecurity research and security incident response company Mandiant. Apparently, according to Bloomberg, Microsoft is considering acquiring this company to improve its ability to protect its customers from hacks and security breaches. Of course, the negotiations can fail and not lead to a formal purchase offer.

For now neither Mandiant and Microsoft have wanted to make statements about it, but the rumors have made their shares rise on the stock market. Those of Mandiant have increased their valuation by 18% in that of New York, which has raised their market value to around 4,300 million dollars.

Microsoft hasn’t seen such a notable increase in its shares: they have only risen 1.2% to $304.56 per share, although this improvement may be an indication that shareholders are looking favorably on the operation. Mandiant was acquired by FireEye in 2014, but became an independent company again in 2021, after the FireEye product line was taken over by McAfee Enterprise.

If Microsoft finally acquires Mandiant, the company will gain a broad portfolio of products designed, in addition to protecting customers and meeting their security needs, to respond to various cyber threats. Its acquisition would be in line with the acceleration of Microsoft’s strategy in terms of strengthening security, which is evident with the fact that it bought several smaller cybersecurity companies last year. Among them are RiskIQ, CloudKnox Security and RedFirm.

This movement seems to be paying off, since in total, as confirmed by the company last month, they have entered 15,000 million dollars in security software sales in 2021, almost 45% more than in 202. On the other hand, since 2021 they have a new security manager: the former director of the Amazon cloud area Charlie Bellwhich is in charge of supervising the activity and strategy of the 3,500 employees that they already have working on the protection of all their clients.

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