Google X published a new spinoff concentrating entirely on cybersecurity, dubbed Chronicle.
Billed by Google X chief Astro Teller as a “digital safe system,” Chronicle focuses on detecting threats by analyzing and storing security-relevant data within large enterprises. Using Google’s infrastructure, the business claims to be able to detect threats faster and at a comprehensive scale than existing systems, which is probably the key to stopping hacks early.
“We think we’ll be able to help groups see their full security picture with much higher accuracy than they currently can,” founder Stephen Gillett said in a News post stating the launch.
Further aspects of the project are still thin, but Gillett says early alpha versions of the output have already been tested at a number of Fortune 500 companies.
X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller also notes that “the data that security teams need to identify and review attacks is right there in an organization’s current security tools and IT systems, but it’s hidden in large volumes of data and hence can’t easily be seen, understood, or used.”
What specifically this new platform will look like remains to be seen, though. Gillett notes that it will run on Alphabet’s support and use machine learning and advanced search capabilities to help businesses examine their security data. Chronicle also says that it will offer its assistance in the cloud so that they can “grow with an organization’s needs and don’t add yet an extra piece of security software to perform and manage.”
Chronicle will also include VirusTotal, a successful malware-reporting network that receives over 1 million submissions a day. Acquired by Google in 2012, VirusTotal’s aids are expected to continue unchanged by the launch, although it will now be nested under Chronicle.
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