Google Named a Leader in the External Threat Intelligence Service Forrester Wave

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Google Named a Leader in the External Threat Intelligence Service Forrester Wave

Forrester named Google a leader in threat intelligence for Q3 2026, highlighting its Gemini-powered agents that automate triage and detection engineering.

What: Google Threat Intelligence integrates Mandiant’s incident response and VirusTotal data with Gemini agents to automate malware analysis, threat hunting, and rule creation. Customers report a 139% increase in proactive threat identification.

Why it matters: This underscores the move toward autonomous 'security operations centers' where generative AI handles complex, multi-step investigation logic previously performed by human analysts.

Decoder

Threat Intelligence: Evidence-based knowledge about threats, including indicators of compromise and adversary tactics, used to inform security decisions.
Detection Engineering: The process of identifying, creating, and maintaining security alerts to detect malicious activity.

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Forrester named Google a Leader in its External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Wave for Q3 2026, citing perfect scores across nine criteria and autonomous Gemini-powered agents for triage, detection engineering, and threat hunting that customers say surface 139 percent more threats.

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