Google named a Leader in the External Threat Intelligence Service Forrester Wave™

At Google, we see firsthand how the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats continue to challenge traditional enterprise defenses. Today’s defenders can’t rely on reactive triage or fragmented data feeds; you require high-fidelity intelligence, deep underground visibility, and actionable context to anticipate adversary moves before an attack unfolds. We are proud to announce that Forrester has named Google a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026. In this evaluation, Google received the highest possible score of 5.

0 across nine distinct criteria spanning both Current Offering and Strategy. Organizations trust our decades of threat intelligence expertise to help them understand today’s attacks and to protect against tomorrow’s threats. Google Threat Intelligence operationalizes protection with specialized threat intelligence agents that autonomously conduct multi-step investigations and malware analysis at machine speed.

Underpinning these capabilities is the unified visibility provided by Mandiant’s frontline incident response, VirusTotal’s crowdsourced visibility, and Google-scale infrastructure with industry-leading deep and dark web monitoring, illuminating adversary operations where they begin. Google is a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026 Accurate and relevant deep and dark web monitoring enables proactive security, spotting exposed credentials, threat actor reconnaissance, and illicit forum chatter before they escalate into active attacks.

We received the highest possible score in the Deep and Dark Web Monitoring and Intelligence Collection Sources criteria. As Forrester wrote in the report, “Google is the only vendor in this evaluation that is also a frontier AI model developer and a significant player in quantum computing. ” Because Google Threat Intelligence has direct access to a leading frontier model rather than an off-the-shelf wrapper, our AI agents don’t just summarize data — they can actively evolve.