Mandiant, the cyber security company founded by Kevin Mandia, has become one of the world’s best-known providers of intelligence on online threats to companies and governments.
It has spent years tracking the cyber campaigns of nation-state actors such as Russia, Iran, China and North Korea, as well as criminal groups. And now, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine escalates, its understanding of the types of attack that Russian intelligence could mount has taken on greater importance.
Here, Mandia talks exclusively to the FT’s tech correspondent Hannah Murphy about western governments’ cyber warfare defences, the risk of indiscriminate attacks, and how his company’s $5.4bn takeover by Google may enhance its capabilities.