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."

Comments

Can we stop the silly name-splaining?

[93 Escort Wagon]

- 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.

Re:Moonshot?

[AHuxley]

Whats going to be found? Code litter that a security service wanted to be found? The security services are in the system but the NSL.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... changes everything.
The sale of an another US cloud product? A really big new and really good firewall? US junk encryption in the US cloud?

Good security needs experts in house who understand their own system. Hire on merit to protect internal networks.
Find experts in another nation who are not going to be blocked by a NSL. They are free to report early and often on what they find in any US system.
No having to watch data walk while some US agency and investigation try to observe what the interesting people are doing in a network for months.
Find a real security company that finds problems, offers solutions to the company. Dont risk experts that have to stop work for a NSL

Re:Point Counterpoint

[Reverend Green]

Do you REALLY trust Google to not use the information against both its friends AND enemies?

No one trusts Google anymore. That ship has sailed.

Re:We want to improve your security

[MrL0G1C]

And google don't have a fucking clue what a hacker is, for them, anyone who uses VPN must be some kind of hacker judging by the crap they throw at me in the form of horribly annoying captchas. Never mind that I'm logged in to gmail and youtube FFS.