Google parent company Alphabet launches security specialty company "Chronicle"

Alphabet with Google as a subsidiary is on January 24, 2018 of the American time, a cyber security company "ChronicleWe announced that it launched. By utilizing the assets (assets) such as the computing ability of Alphabet, we aim to raise the hacking attack detection and repelling ability of companies by slogan "the strengths of good people".

Chronicle Security - Technology
https://chronicle.security/technology/


Give Good the Advantage - Chronicle Blog - Medium
https://medium.com/chronicle-blog/give-good-the-advantage-75ab2c242e45

Chronicle is an organization that develops advanced technology under Alphabet "X - The Moonshot FactoryDeveloped from the project of "Cyber ​​Security Intelligence and Analysis Platform to support enterprises better management and understanding of security-related data, and to provide malware and virus scanning services I aim for it.

In the blog, Stephen Gillett, who was to become CEO of Chronicle, expressed the Chronicle as "a way to tenfold the security team of struggling to stay on top" .

The security measures of each company are also vain and damage by malicious hackers and crackers has not been lost, and hacking damage such as data leakage has been reported like every month. However, there is a reality that companies, around the world, are lacking in human resources, skills and technology necessary to take adequate measures. As a result, attacks by hackers have been left undetected for many months at the company's site, even if they realize the incident, days are spent in order to take measures and recover I will. All of these lead to increased data breaches, increased damage, and increased security costs.


Chronicle aims to provide companies with solutions to solve security problems by leveraging Alphabet's scalable and massive computing power and storage assets. Now that Alphabet has the largest computing power in the world, it is said to enable the following services.

· Search or acquire useful information for the team and complete analysis process which takes several hours or days now in a few minutes
· Understand patterns found from multiple data sources and patterns found from long-standing data by exploiting the huge and low cost storage capacity of any other organization

Chronicle was officially founded as an X project in February 2016. In addition to Mr. Gillet who has worked in the world's largest cyber security company "Symantec", people who have experiences in security companies around the world have gathered in X and are developing new technologies. In addition, Bernardo Quintero of "VirusTotal" which Google acquired in 2012 also has a major position of Chronicle.

Mr. Gillet stated in his blog that "The basic purpose of Chronicle is to eliminate corporate security blind spots and blind spots and enable companies to clearly grasp the full details of their security in detail" . Based on the technology used by Google at the time of article creation, it is said that it is in the early stages toward development of these services. Mr. Gillet admits that there are not many cases to be reported at this stage in many cases, but he is already working on a large company that is counted as "Fortune 500", so that detailed image of it in the near future It is considered to be revealed.