Mandiant Consulting: $4.3M Annual Benefit, 268% ROI

Security leaders are expected to protect growth and articulate value to the board. Mandiant Consulting helps bridge that gap, and a new IDC study commissioned by Mandiant puts hard numbers on it: organizations reported an average annual benefit of $4.3 million, a 268% three-year ROI, and a payback period of just 4.1 months.

These findings come from interviews with large, complex organizations (averaging $17.3B revenue, 74,000 employees). One healthcare firm said Mandiant changed their commercial conversations: “Security now consistently ranks among the top three reasons clients choose us, and it reduced our insurance costs by $50,000 per year.”

Frontline Threat Intelligence in Action

CISOs struggle with resource constraints. Mandiant distills findings from over 500,000 hours of global incident investigations, helping teams focus on relevant threats. A retail organization highlighted how Mandiant helped them create detection use cases specific to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group, enabling them to monitor, detect, and neutralize attacks.

Many organizations also use Mandiant for deep technical audits across identity infrastructure—Active Directory, privileged account management, and MFA. An energy-sector organization noted: “Mandiant provides external assurance that our cyber program is thorough and validated from a risk management perspective.”

Quantified Operational Impact

IDC quantified broader advantages:

• 59% greater preparedness to address cyberattacks
• 45% improvement in cyber-resilience
• 36% more efficient security analyst teams, freeing staff for strategic initiatives

Security isn’t just a cost center—it’s a business enabler. For more, register for the July customer webinar.

Source: IDC Business Value White Paper, sponsored by Google, July 2026.

Original announcement published on Google Cloud.