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Google X Is Launching a Cybersecurity Company Called Chronicle (techcrunch.com)
Google's parent company Alphabet today announced the launch of Chronicle, a new cybersecurity company that aims to give companies a better chance at detecting and fighting off hackers. "Chronicle is graduating out of Alphabet's X moonshot group and is now a standalone company under the Alphabet umbrella, just like Google," TechCrunch reports. From the report: Stephen Gillett, who joined X from Google Ventures and was previously the COO of Symantec, will be the new company's CEO. To get started, Chronicle will offer two services: a security intelligence and analytics platform for enterprises, and VirusTotal, the online malware and virus scanner that Google acquired in 2012. Gillett writes that the general idea behind Chronicle is to eliminate a company's security blind spots and allow businesses to get a better picture of their security posture. "We want to 10x the speed and impact of security teams' work by making it much easier, faster and more cost-effective for them to capture and analyze security signals that have previously been too difficult and expensive to find," writes Gillett. "We are building our intelligence and analytics platform to solve this problem."
What exactly this new platform will look like remains to be seen, though. Gillett notes that it will run on Alphabet's infrastructure and use machine learning and advanced search capabilities to help businesses analyze their security data. Chronicle also says that it will offer its services in the cloud so that they can "grow with an organization's needs and don't add yet another piece of security software to implement and manage."
What exactly this new platform will look like remains to be seen, though. Gillett notes that it will run on Alphabet's infrastructure and use machine learning and advanced search capabilities to help businesses analyze their security data. Chronicle also says that it will offer its services in the cloud so that they can "grow with an organization's needs and don't add yet another piece of security software to implement and manage."
All you have to do is give us total access to your sweet, sweet data, and agree that we can use it for our own purposes.
What kind of moonshot leads to yet another run of the mill security company?
What's the special sauce that is moonshot worthy enough? The moonshot program from Google started with "we do crazy/fun things that are totally out there but could just maybe become a real service or product one day" Like Internet from balloons or modular cellphones, etc.
A new security company service is nothing out there. There are tons of those just with less name recognition than Google.
Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called Virustotal. That's TWO services and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to fireeye anyway.
- Google chose to rebrand and reorganize as Alphabet. When we're talking about Alphabet, isn't it about time we just say "Alphabet" not "Google's parent company Alphabet"?
- Stop referring to "X" as "Google X". It hasn't been "Google X" since Google did the whole silly rebrand. The parent company is Alphabet; so if you have to append something call it "Alphabet X". Yes, it does sound stupid - live with it.
I'm aware that all the rebrand did is muddy the waters for everybody... but it's been more than two years now. We're far enough along that there's no real point in wasting words re-explaining it. Just use the goofy names these engineers came up with, snicker if you must, and move on.
#DeleteChrome
That data flow out to the security services .....
PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
This:
grow with an organization's needs and don't add yet another piece of security software to implement and manage
Conflicts with this:
it will run on Alphabet's infrastructure and use machine learning and advanced search capabilities to help businesses analyze their security data
That "security data" has to come from somewhere, presumably what IDPS, assessment, and analytic software the company already uses. This will add another layer on top to implement and manage.
The real question is: What does Chronicle provide that replaces or improves upon what solutions already employed and will that reduce the costs of security mitigation solutions or reduce the cost of IR and recovery sufficient to offset the implementation, maintenance, support, and personnel cost of employing yet another layer of information gathering to the process?
So how was a private data scraping company "a Cybersecurity Company"?
"Chronicle is graduating out of Alphabet's X moonshot group and is now a standalone company under the Alphabet umbrella, just like Google," TechCrunch reports.
And so Umbrella Corp. was born in the year 2018, dooming humanity as we know it.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Give me some templates and apps that help with 800-171 compliance, and I'd be happy hahaha
What it is with those guys coming out with such retarded names for their companies?
The Good: Detecting problems by having a massive sample of malware and attack methods.
The Bad: Do you REALLY trust Google to not use the information against both its friends AND enemies?
Now with Google BetterSpeech, a tool to automatically detect uncomfortable speech in internal memos!
better than troll-trace I guess.
Google has ZERO clue how to sell , you know, to *people* ... The ones who'd care about stuff like this ...
So unless their tech is just amazing stuff - and it sounds undifferentiated - I'm skeptical at best.
Would be great if they broke out revenues of these larks ...