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Alphabet vs Indra Group

Alphabet sells a full suite of security products and services to protect workloads and meet digital sovereignty requirements. Indra Group operates a Cyberdefence segment that provides platforms and services for planning, conducting and analysing military and governmental cyberspace operations, including command-and-control software, situational-awareness tools, encrypted communications and information-warfare toolkits. CISO Tribune files both under Threat intelligence and Incident response and forensics. 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 Indra Group: 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.comIndra GroupIndra Group operates a Cyberdefence segment that provides platforms and services for planning, conducting and analysing military and governmental cyberspace operations, including command-and-control software, situational-awareness tools, encrypted communications and information-warfare toolkits.indragroup.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.
  • Cyber C2[1]A software and communications platform used to plan, direct, coordinate and monitor cyberspace operations for defence customers.
  • ECYSAP[1]A mission-focused situational awareness capability that gives real-time information on cyberspace events and their potential impact on a mission.
  • Cyber Threat Analysis and Situational Awareness Centre[1]A centre that coordinates interoperability among European entities to improve coordination and response to cyber incidents.
  • COMSec Meet[1]A solution with hybrid protection mechanisms and end-to-end encryption used to secure communications and information exchange within the centre.
  • EUCINF[1]A toolbox covering the operational flow of Cyber and Information Warfare, collecting, analysing, processing and exploiting data via a shared library of software products.
  • Hy-COB (Cyber Operations Hybrid Battlespace)A capability that provides cyber operational analysis along with collaborative exercises and training.
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Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesMadrid, Spain
Founded
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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]
  • January 8, 2026Indra Group reached an agreement with UK-based Altitude Angel to acquire the assets related to GuardianUTM, its modular unmanned air traffic management platform.[3]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
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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, Indra Group sells a dual offering to both civil and military customers and supports critical missions worldwide. In our reading, Indra Group's defence work is aimed at protecting both forces and civilians in any operational environment. Indra Group's sovereign AI work is directed at the protection of citizens, territories, and critical physical and digital infrastructure and assets. Indra Group's transport work covers roads, railways, ports and airports. Indra Group's airspace management work covers solutions that synchronise radars, controllers, and aircraft. Indra Group sells digital platforms, analytics, and artificial intelligence to organisations.
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November 2, 2026October 14, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Alphabet and Indra Group are both filed under Threat intelligence and Incident response and forensics.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Alphabet's primary category is SIEM; Indra Group's is Threat intelligence.
  • Alphabet is also filed under Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP). Indra Group is also filed under Encryption, tokenization and key management.
  • Alphabet lists Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Indra Group lists Cyber C2, ECYSAP, Cyber Threat Analysis and Situational Awareness Centre, COMSec Meet, EUCINF and 1 more.
  • Indra Group is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

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.

Questions about Alphabet and Indra Group

What do Alphabet and Indra Group sell?
Alphabet sells Google Threat Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting Services, Security Command Center, Identity Platform, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and 1 more. Indra Group sells Cyber C2, ECYSAP, Cyber Threat Analysis and Situational Awareness Centre, COMSec Meet, EUCINF and 1 more.
Are Alphabet and Indra Group in the same category?
They share Threat intelligence and Incident response and forensics. Alphabet's primary category is SIEM and Indra Group's is Threat intelligence.
Where are Alphabet and Indra Group headquartered?
Indra Group is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Who are Alphabet and Indra Group 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, Indra Group sells a dual offering to both civil and military customers and supports critical missions worldwide.
What have Alphabet and Indra Group announced recently?
December 22, 2025: Alphabet said it would buy clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt. January 8, 2026: Indra Group reached an agreement with UK-based Altitude Angel to acquire the assets related to GuardianUTM, its modular unmanned air traffic management platform.

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

Indra Group full record

  1. [1]CyberdefenceIndra Group · defence.indragroup.com · undated page, accessed October 14, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]251030 indra group growth and investments usaIndra Group · indragroup.com · published October 30, 2025 · Tier A
  3. [3]Indra Group acquires Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM platform to strengthen its leadership in drone traffic management while increasing its presence in the United KingdomIndra Group · published January 8, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Indra Group | HomeIndra Group · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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