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Alphabet/Google has launched "Chronicle", a company that combines cybersecurity with machine learning. It was started under Google's X "moonshot"-producing group:
Alphabet—the parent company of Google, Nest, Waymo, and a million other companies—is launching a new company under the Alphabet umbrella. It's called "Chronicle," and the new company wants to apply the usual Google tenets of machine learning and cloud computing to cybersecurity.
The company is already up and running with an absolutely awesome URL, "chronicle.security," along with two introductory blog posts (1, 2), a logo, a Twitter account, and a vague sales pitch for some kind of security analysis product. The Chronicle team started in February 2016 under Alphabet's "Moonshot factory" X group and, before now, had been in stealth mode.
Stephen Gillett, the new CEO of Chronicle, explained the company best by writing:
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. We are building our intelligence and analytics platform to solve this problem.
10x? We verbed that. Google that fact.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:09AM (1 child)
Do you think it was a good thing that Google's Project Zero discovered the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, along with the dozens of other vulnerabilities reported in the past few years? From what I understand, that was powered by AI techniques using such gathered data. You can't have your cake and eat it too, that's like wanting public infrastructure without paying taxes (I can't remember which of you guys are the conservative whiners and which are the liberal whiners, I apologize if that's a bad analogy for you).
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday January 30 2018, @03:05PM
But there are two distinct cakes at play here.
It's legitimate scientific research to discover a huge vulnerability in modern CPUs. It's not the same thing as harvesting data on customers. You may as well try to equate Mark Zuckerberg and Isaac Newton.