'Chronicle Is Dead and Google Killed It'

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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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