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Alphabet vs Group-IB

Alphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements. Group-IB is a Prediction-First cybersecurity company built on collective defense. 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 Group-IB: 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.comGroup-IBGroup-IB is a Prediction-First cybersecurity company built on collective defense.group-ib.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.
  • Threat Intelligence[1][3][5]Group-IB Threat Intelligence Platform has a graph interface for investigating cyber threats.
  • Attack Surface Management[1][5]Group-IB delivers external attack surface management that automatically maps every asset and provides continuous attack surface monitoring and analysis.
  • Fraud Protection[1][4]Group-IB's online fraud protection platform uses global fraud intelligence, device fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to detect fraud.
  • Digital Risk Protection[1][6][11]Group-IB's digital risk protection solution continuously monitors and detects threats across the open, deep and dark web.
  • Managed XDR[7]Group-IB Managed XDR solution secures an email gateway using intelligence-driven behavioral analysis technology.
  • Business Email Protection[1][7]Group-IB offers Business Email Protection against phishing and scam attacks.
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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 29, 2026Group-IB's Digital Risk Protection solution is now available in AWS Marketplace.[11]
  • January 27, 2026Group-IB launches a Cloud Security Posture Management solution as part of its Unified Risk Platform.[10]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
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  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[12]
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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.Not written yet
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Where they overlap

  • Alphabet and Group-IB are both filed under Threat intelligence.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Alphabet's primary category is SIEM; Group-IB's is Threat intelligence.
  • Alphabet is also filed under Incident response and forensics and Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP). Group-IB is also filed under External attack surface management, Digital risk protection and Fraud prevention.
  • Alphabet lists Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Group-IB lists Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Management, Fraud Protection, Digital Risk Protection, Managed XDR and 1 more.

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: Group-IB

What Threat Intelligence does[1][3][5]
Group-IB's digital threat intelligence solution, powered by the Unified Risk Platform, integrates with SIEM, SOAR and TIP solutions, or via API and STIIX/TAXII data transfer. Group-IB threat intelligence lets users uncover illicit activities and monitor the dark web to determine if their organization is mentioned there. Group-IB's Threat Intelligence solution is available in AWS Marketplace.
What Attack Surface Management does[1][5]
Group-IB's platform enriches findings with threat intelligence to assess risk and prioritize issues. The Assets tab lists Internet-facing assets that are part of an organization's infrastructure, which can be confirmed or ignored. The Issues tab lists identified issues among confirmed assets, which can be marked as Under Review, Solved, Ignored or False Positive. Group-IB's attack surface platform checks confirmed assets for common vulnerabilities and assigns each one a risk score.
What Fraud Protection does[1][4]
Group-IB device fingerprinting technology is powered by the patented Global ID innovation. Group-IB device fingerprinting identifies devices, generates unique fingerprints, tracks fraudulent activities and uncovers hidden multi-accounting, anti-detection browsers and account farming. Group-IB Fraud Protection's AI uses a combination of signature analysis and User Behavior Analysis (UBA).
What Digital Risk Protection does[1][6][11]
Group-IB Digital Risk Protection solution implements a three-stage takedown process for violations such as scam and phishing. Group-IB Digital Risk Protection uses machine learning to detect scams, phishing and other violations. Group-IB analysts research scam groups, actors and popular schemes, creating new assets for monitoring and public reports.

Questions about Alphabet and Group-IB

What do Alphabet and Group-IB sell?
Alphabet sells Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Group-IB sells Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Management, Fraud Protection, Digital Risk Protection, Managed XDR and 1 more.
Are Alphabet and Group-IB in the same category?
They share Threat intelligence. Alphabet's primary category is SIEM and Group-IB's is Threat intelligence.
Who are Alphabet and Group-IB 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.
What have Alphabet and Group-IB announced recently?
December 22, 2025: Alphabet said it would buy clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt. October 29, 2026: Group-IB's Digital Risk Protection solution is now available in AWS Marketplace.

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

Group-IB full record

  1. [1]group-ib.comGroup-IB · group-ib.com · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Group-IB | Prediction-First Cybersecurity and Anti-FraudGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Threat Intelligence Platform | Cyber Threat Intelligence Software | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Fraud Protection Service with Online Fraud Protection Software | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Attack Surface Management & Monitoring Solutions Platform | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Digital Risk Protection & Digital Brand Protection Services | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Solutions for Anti-Phishing and Scam Protection | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Blockchain Security: Safeguard Your Crypto Business | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]OT ICS Cybersecurity Threats: Tactics, Paths, DefensesGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Group-IB launches Cloud Security Posture Management with advanced misconfiguration detection and cloud compliance monitoring | Group-IBGroup-IB · published January 27, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Group-IB launches Digital Risk Protection availability in AWS Marketplace | Group-IBGroup-IB · published October 29, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Group-IB Threat Intelligence Reviews & Product DetailsG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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