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Alphabet vs Dataminr

Alphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements. Dataminr sells real-time, AI-powered alerts on high-impact events and critical information, delivered via a web application, mobile application, API and email. 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 Dataminr: 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.comDataminrDataminr sells real-time, AI-powered alerts on high-impact events and critical information, delivered via a web application, mobile application, API and email.dataminr.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.
  • Dataminr for Cyber Defense[1][3]An intel-driven threat and exposure solution suite.
  • First Alert[3][6]Real-time alerting for government customers, with First Alert Advanced adding Autonomous Real-Time Intelligence.
  • Dataminr for News[3][14]Real-time alerts for journalists on breaking news.
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Headquarters
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Founded
Not stated on its pages2009[2]
Ownership and funding
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Named customers
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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]
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G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
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  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[4]
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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, Dataminr sells to corporate security teams that want to protect their people, sites and operations. Dataminr also describes First Alert as deployable directly into government internal applications. Journalists in newsrooms around the world are named as users of Dataminr for News. For cyber risk work, Dataminr provides real-time risk views designed for CISOs, CFOs and board reporting. Dataminr's people safety pages cover the safety of employees, executives, customers and contractors.
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November 2, 2026October 14, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Alphabet and Dataminr are both filed under Threat intelligence.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Alphabet's primary category is SIEM; Dataminr's is Threat intelligence.
  • Alphabet is also filed under Incident response and forensics and Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP). Dataminr is also filed under Exposure prioritisation and CTEM, Cyber risk quantification and Digital risk protection.
  • Alphabet lists Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Dataminr lists Dataminr for Cyber Defense, First Alert and Dataminr for News.
  • Dataminr was founded in 2009.

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: Dataminr

What Dataminr for Cyber Defense does[1][3]
Dataminr for Cyber Defense assembles and operationalizes real-time, client-tailored intelligence. CTTI maps fast-breaking threats to the customer's assets and exposure automatically. Agentic TI Ops builds on Client-Tailored Threat Intelligence and adds an operational layer.
What Dataminr for News does[3][14]
Journalists in over 1,500 newsrooms around the world use Dataminr for News to discover indications of breaking news. Dataminr for News detects global events by processing billions of public data inputs per day in a wide range of formats.

Questions about Alphabet and Dataminr

What do Alphabet and Dataminr sell?
Alphabet sells Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Dataminr sells Dataminr for Cyber Defense, First Alert and Dataminr for News.
Are Alphabet and Dataminr in the same category?
They share Threat intelligence. Alphabet's primary category is SIEM and Dataminr's is Threat intelligence.
When were Alphabet and Dataminr founded?
Dataminr was founded in 2009.
Who are Alphabet and Dataminr 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, Dataminr sells to corporate security teams that want to protect their people, sites and operations.
What have Alphabet and Dataminr announced recently?
December 22, 2025: Alphabet said it would buy clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt.

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

Dataminr full record

  1. [1]Cyber defenseDataminr · dataminr.com · undated page, accessed October 14, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Dataminr ranked fastest growing companyDataminr · dataminr.com · published November 17, 2021 · Tier A
  3. [3]AI-Powered Real-Time Event, Threat & Risk Intelligence - DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 1, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Dataminr Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed November 1, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]Trust Services | DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Dataminr First Alert - DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Dataminr for Cyber Defense - DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Agentic TI Ops - DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Continuous Control Monitoring with Risk Quantification - DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Dataminr Advanced for Corporate SecurityDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Request A Pulse Demo - DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Dataminr Pulse for Corporate Security > Improve People Safety - DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Receive Vulnerability Intelligence With Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk - DataminrDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Dataminr for News - Real-time AI Solution for NewsroomsDataminr · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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