Google's Disruption Mission

Google's Disruption Mission

From The Defender's Advantage Podcast by Mandiant

April 27, 2026 · 29 min

About this episode

The episode discusses Google's coordinated approach to disrupting adversary cyber operations with insights from Charley Snyder.

Host Luke McNamara is joined by Charley Snyder, Head of Disruption Operations at Google Threat Intelligence Group, to delve into how Google is crafting a more coordinate approach to disrupting adversary cyber operations. Charley describes how this disruption focus is not hacking back, how it builds on existing work across Google security teams, and some of the recent wins such as the IPIDEA and GRIDTIDE takedowns.

People in this episode

Host: Luke McNamara

Guest: Charley Snyder

Topics covered

  • cyber operations
  • disruption strategy
  • Google security
  • adversary disruption
  • cybersecurity

Keywords

  • Google
  • cybersecurity
  • disruption operations
  • Charley Snyder
  • IPIDEA
  • GRIDTIDE
  • threat intelligence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google Threat Intelligence Group, Google, Google security teams

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