Cybersecurity
Mandiant Founder Aims to Impose Costs on Hackers in VC Role
Kevin Mandia focused on investments after Google’s Mandiant acquisition
Kevin Mandia, former chief executive officer of Mandiant, during a keynote at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, US.
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Kevin Mandia is trying to find ways to make life harder for brazen hacking groups.
Mandia announced in May that he’d step down as the chief executive at Mandiant, the cybersecurity firm that he founded in 2004, after it was acquired by Google Cloud in 2022. He’s now moving into the venture capital world as a general partner and co-founder of Ballistic Ventures, an investment firm that’s raised $660 million in funding to invest in a range of emerging security startups.