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Alphabet vs Cyware

Alphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements. Cyware sells an AI-powered threat intelligence platform that combines AI agents and collective defense networks to help security teams act on the threat intelligence relevant to them. CISO Tribune files both under Threat intelligence. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Alphabet vs Cyware: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AlphabetAlphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements.cloud.google.comCywareCyware sells an AI-powered threat intelligence platform that combines AI agents and collective defense networks to help security teams act on the threat intelligence relevant to them.cyware.com
What it sells
  • Google Threat Intelligence[1][2]Threat intelligence for understanding threat actors and potential attack vectors.
  • Mandiant Consulting Services[2]Consulting services for understanding threat actors and potential attack vectors.
  • Security Command Center[1][3]A platform for defending against threats to Google Cloud assets.
  • Identity Platform[3][5]A customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for apps.
  • reCAPTCHA Enterprise[3][5]Helps protect a website from fraudulent activity, spam and abuse.
  • Google Cloud Armor[3]Helps protect applications and websites against denial of service and web attacks.
  • Cyware Intel Exchange[4][8]An AI-powered threat intelligence platform that turns raw threat data into actionable intelligence.
  • Cyware Intelligence Suite[5]A packaged threat intel program-in-a-box built on Cyware Intel Exchange.
  • Cyware Collaborate[9]A secure, bi-directional threat intelligence sharing and collaboration platform.
  • Cyware Orchestrate[10]A low-code/no-code security orchestration and automation platform.
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Recent news
  • December 22, 2025Alphabet said it would buy clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt.[7]
  • October 22, 2026Cyware launched Cyware Last Mile Agents, a new class of AI agents for smaller member organizations in threat-sharing networks.[12]
  • July 22, 2026Cyware appointed Alvaro Warden as Global Head of Channel Sales and Marketplace Ecosystems.[13]
  • March 18, 2026Cyware announced Agentic Fabric, an AI strategy introducing agent-driven workflows for investigation, detection engineering and response.[14]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Google Cloud addresses organisations that own intellectual property in the form of highly sensitive data or that handle sensitive data subject to data protection regulations such as PCI DSS. Our reading is that Google Cloud addresses organisations migrating from on-premises to the cloud that want to replicate their on-premises network based security architecture as they move data to Google Cloud. Alphabet addresses customers that, as part of a migration to the cloud, may need to validate its compliance documentation, certifications and controls. Alphabet publishes regional compliance papers on the telecommunications industry. Alphabet's industry solutions range from improving retail product discovery to detecting bank fraud.From its own pages, Cyware sells to enterprises that want to operationalize threat intelligence across their security tools. Cyware also sells to intel sharing networks, naming ISACs, ISAOs, CERTs, national SOCs, and state, federal, and defense government agencies. Cyware Collaborate is described as used by enterprises, managed security service providers, ISACs, ISAOs, and CERTs. Its sector-specific feeds are aimed at energy, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing organizations.
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November 2, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Alphabet and Cyware are both filed under Threat intelligence.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Alphabet's primary category is SIEM; Cyware's is Threat intelligence.
  • Alphabet is also filed under Incident response and forensics and Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP). Cyware is also filed under SOAR and security automation.
  • Alphabet lists Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Cyware lists Cyware Intel Exchange, Cyware Intelligence Suite, Cyware Collaborate and Cyware Orchestrate.

What it sells: Alphabet

What Google Threat Intelligence does[1][2]
Google Threat Intelligence is used to understand threat actors and potential attack vectors. Google Threat Intelligence is offered alongside Mandiant Consulting Services.
What Mandiant Consulting Services does[2]
Mandiant Consulting Services is offered to understand threat actors and potential attack vectors. Mandiant Consulting Services is offered alongside Google Threat Intelligence.
What Security Command Center does[1][3]
Security Command Center is a platform for defending against threats. Security Command Center covers Google Cloud assets.
What Identity Platform does[3][5]
Identity Platform is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for adding identity and access management to apps. Identity Platform integrates with the reCAPTCHA Enterprise API to enhance security for users. With bot protection, Identity Platform provisions score-based reCAPTCHA keys in the customer's project.
What Google Cloud Armor does[3]
Google Cloud Armor helps protect applications and websites against denial of service attacks. Google Cloud Armor covers web attacks against applications and websites.

What it sells: Cyware

What Cyware Intel Exchange does[4][8]
Cyware Intel Exchange automates the ingestion, de-duplication, enrichment, correlation, analysis, sharing, and actioning of threat data. It normalizes ingested data to STIX 2.1.
What Cyware Collaborate does[9]
Cyware Collaborate lets organizations aggregate intelligence from multiple sources, contextualize it, and share it in real time with internal teams and trusted external partners. It supports a Detection Engineering Agent that auto-generates production-ready TDL detection rules.
What Cyware Orchestrate does[10]
Cyware Orchestrate lets teams build, deploy, and manage automated workflows across 400+ security, IT, and OT tools. Cyware offers 150+ pre-built playbook templates.

Questions about Alphabet and Cyware

What do Alphabet and Cyware sell?
Alphabet sells Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Cyware sells Cyware Intel Exchange, Cyware Intelligence Suite, Cyware Collaborate and Cyware Orchestrate.
Are Alphabet and Cyware in the same category?
They share Threat intelligence. Alphabet's primary category is SIEM and Cyware's is Threat intelligence.
Who are Alphabet and Cyware sold to?
From its own pages, Google Cloud addresses organisations that own intellectual property in the form of highly sensitive data or that handle sensitive data subject to data protection regulations such as PCI DSS. From its own pages, Cyware sells to enterprises that want to operationalize threat intelligence across their security tools.
What have Alphabet and Cyware announced recently?
December 22, 2025: Alphabet said it would buy clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt. October 22, 2026: Cyware launched Cyware Last Mile Agents, a new class of AI agents for smaller member organizations in threat-sharing networks.

About Alphabet

Alphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements. Alphabet offers security products that help customers meet policy, regulatory and business objectives. Google Threat Intelligence and Mandiant Consulting Services are offered to understand threat actors and potential attack vectors. Google Security Operations is used to detect, investigate and respond to threats.[1][2][3]

Security Command Center is a platform for defending against threats to Google Cloud assets. Assured Workloads provides compliance and security controls for sensitive workloads. Identity and Access Management is a permissions management system for Google Cloud resources. Google Cloud Armor helps protect applications and websites against denial of service and web attacks. Cloud Key Management is used to manage encryption keys on Google Cloud. Confidential Computing encrypts data in use with Confidential VMs. Cloud NGFW is a global firewall to protect cloud resources. Shielded VMs are virtual machines hardened with security controls and defenses. Secret Manager stores API keys, passwords, certificates and other sensitive data.[1][3]

Cloud Data Loss Prevention is a platform for inspecting, classifying and redacting sensitive data. Sensitive Data Protection is a fully managed sensitive data protection service. Access Transparency provides cloud provider visibility through near real-time logs. Cloud Asset Inventory is used to view, monitor and analyze Google Cloud and Anthos assets across projects and services. Secure Web Proxy monitors and secures egress web traffic to help protect cloud workloads. Web Risk detects malicious URLs on a website and in client applications. Chrome Enterprise Premium is a zero-trust platform with integrated threat and data protection. Assured Open Source Software lets developers incorporate the same OSS packages that Google uses into their own developer workflows. Sovereign Controls by Partners provides partner-operated sovereignty controls for Google Cloud to meet digital sovereignty requirements.[3]

VPC Service Controls protects sensitive data in Google Cloud services using security perimeters. VPC Service Controls helps protect against accidental or targeted action by external or insider entities, to minimize data exfiltration risks from Google Cloud services such as Cloud Storage and BigQuery. VPC Service Controls is used to create perimeters that protect the resources and data of services that are explicitly specified. By allowing private access only from authorized VPC networks, VPC Service Controls helps protect against data exfiltration by clients using stolen OAuth or service account credentials. VPC Service Controls adds a layer of security defense for Google Cloud services that is independent of Identity and Access Management (IAM). Google Cloud provides a restricted virtual IP that is integrated with VPC Service Controls. VPC Service Controls lets administrators monitor resource access patterns across service perimeters using Cloud Audit Logs. VPC Service Controls can run in dry run mode to monitor requests to protected services without preventing access. VPC Service Controls configurations are managed at the organization level by default.[3]

Identity Platform is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for adding identity and access management to apps. Identity Platform integrates with the reCAPTCHA Enterprise API to enhance security for users. With bot protection, Identity Platform provisions score-based reCAPTCHA keys in the customer's project. In audit mode for email-password sign-in, Identity Platform creates reCAPTCHA keys that assess traffic to Identity Platform APIs without blocking any requests. For phone authentication, Identity Platform blocks a request that fails the toll fraud assessment and does not send an SMS verification code. reCAPTCHA Enterprise helps protect a website from fraudulent activity, spam and abuse. Identity-Aware Proxy uses identity and context to guard access to applications and VMs. Cloud Identity is a unified platform for IT admins to manage user devices and apps.[3][5]

Google Cloud creates and shares mappings of its security, privacy and compliance controls to standards from around the world. Alphabet regularly undergoes independent verification to achieve certifications, attestations and audit reports. An independent third-party auditor has granted formal certifications, attestations or audit reports covering Alphabet's compliance offerings. Alphabet's certifications and attestations include ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO/IEC 42001, PCI DSS, SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3. Alphabet's compliance offerings include FedRAMP, FIPS 140-2 Validated and HITRUST CSF. Alphabet's compliance offerings include Protected B in Canada, StateRAMP, TruSight and the U.S. Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). Cloud service providers cannot formally certify a customer's compliance with laws and regulations. Alphabet reviews laws and regulations and, where possible, provides guidance documents, mappings and papers that outline its technical capabilities and legal commitments.[6]

Alphabet's industry solutions range from improving retail product discovery to detecting bank fraud. Gemini platform is a fully managed AI development platform for building and managing AI applications and agents, with access to Agent Studio and 200+ foundation models.[1][2][6]

Alphabet on the record

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Alphabet full record

  1. [1]SecurityGoogle Cloud · cloud.google.com · undated page, accessed November 2, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]AI and Cloud Computing Services | Google CloudGoogle Cloud · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Security and identity products | Google CloudGoogle Cloud · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Overview of VPC Service Controls | Google Cloud DocumentationGoogle Cloud Documentation · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Integrate Identity Platform with the reCAPTCHA Enterprise API | Google Cloud DocumentationGoogle Cloud Documentation · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Cloud compliance and regulations resources | Google CloudGoogle Cloud · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Alphabet to buy clean energy developer Intersect in $4.75 billion deal amid AI pushReuters · published December 22, 2025 · Tier B

Cyware full record

  1. [1]AboutCyware · cyware.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Forbes recognizes cyware as one of americas best startup employers of 2026 302709209Cyware via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published March 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Cyware - AI-Powered Threat Intelligence Platform | HomeCyware · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) | Cyware Intel ExchangeCyware · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Cyware Intelligence Suite – Unified Threat Intelligence Program in a BoxCyware · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Comprehensive Cyber Threat Feeds for Enhanced Security | CywareCyware · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Digital Risk Protection (DRP) | Cyware Intelligence SuiteCyware · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Privacy-First Real-Time Malware Sandboxing for Faster Threat Investigations | CywareCyware · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cyware Collaborate – Secure Bi-Directional Threat Intelligence SharingCyware · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Cyware Orchestrate – AI-Powered Hyper-Orchestration & AutomationCyware · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Cyware Respond - Real-time Security Orchestration and AutomationCyware · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Cyware Launches New "Last Mile" Agents to Help Smaller Organizations Act on the Threat Intelligence They Already ReceiveCyware · published October 22, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Cyware Strengthens Partner-First Strategy with Appointment of Alvaro WardenPRNewswire · published July 22, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Cyware Introduces Agentic AI Fabric to Enable Threat Intelligence-Driven Workflows Across the Security EcosystemBusiness Wire · published March 18, 2026 · Tier A

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