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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday January 29 2018, @06:29AM
If I remember correctly. Can I find the link?
https://www.cylance.com/en_us/home.html [cylance.com]
Prevent Cyberattacks
with Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity that predicts, prevents, and protects.
It can protect against zero-days before humans are aware of their existence.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Monday January 29 2018, @06:32AM (3 children)
Sound like this guardian of the inter tubes will have to get a lot more well informed about each of us for our own good.
With perfect knowledge comes perfect protection.
Prepare to be assimilated.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 29 2018, @09:16AM
Bow down to your artilect overlord.
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(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).
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by looorg on Monday January 29 2018, @08:41AM
"Give Good The Advantage" Really? Don't be evil just didn't cut it anymore I see. Anyway they seem to be more into the "analysis" business, not actually fixing problems. Hey you have a problem over there ... They don't even seem to be sure what it is that they are actually offering.
Perhaps one shouldn't be to surprised that they seem to offer what Google does, you create the data -- they profit from it.
https://careers.google.com/jobs#!t=jo&jid=/chronicle/software-engineer-virustotal-chronicle-m%C3%A1laga-spain-3584820321& [google.com]
Malaga, Spain so at least they are global already. "As a software engineer, you will work on projects critical to VirusTotal ecosystem needs.". The open positions page in general didn't give much information away either, it usually does.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday January 29 2018, @03:11PM
Woo Hoo! Because no one else ever heard of SIEM [wikipedia.org], so now Google can save us all from those nasty crackers.
Don't forget that before Google we all lived in caves and and scrounged whatever we could. Now we have rail and cars and factory farms. All thanks to Google!
Please.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr