https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kej3e/chronicle-is-dead-and-google-killed-it
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Joseph Cox
Vice.com
November 7, 2019
In early 2018, Google’s parent conglomerate Alphabet announced the birth of a
new "independent" startup that was supposed to revolutionize cybersecurity.
Chronicle was meant to be a new type of startup. One of its products was
designed to structure, organize, and help companies understand their security
related data—a "Google Photos for businesses’ network security," as Forbes put
it when the company announced its first product this year.
The promise was radical: Chronicle would leverage machine learning and
Alphabet’s near-endless well of security telemetry data about known malware and
internet infrastructure and use it to help security teams at companies detect
intrusions that could threaten a company’s network. Crucially, Chronicle would
also remain independent from Google, according to Stephen Gillett, the
startup’s CEO.
"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," Gillett
wrote in a blog post announcing Chronicle. "We know this mission is going to
take years, but we’re committed to seeing it through."
At the time it was unclear what Chronicle was going to be. But industry
observers were excited for what they thought was going to be a significant
disruptor in an industry that is full of relatively old technologies such as
antivirus and firewalls, is rife with products that offer solutions in search
of a problem and outright snake oil.
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