Chronicle Security

Chronicle Security

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Cybersecurity
Founded	January 24, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-01-24)
Founders	Stephen Gillett Shapor Naghibzadeh Mike Wiacek
Headquarters	Mountain View, California
Key people	Stephen Gillett (CEO) Shapor Naghibzadeh Mike Wiacek (CSO) Will Robinson (CTO) Ben Heben (CFO) Jan Kang (CLO) Rick Caccia (CMO)
Products	VirusTotal Backstory
Parent	Alphabet Inc. (2018–2019) Google (2019–present)
Website	chronicle.security

Chronicle Security is a cybersecurity company which is part of the Google Cloud Platform.^[1][2] It is a cloud service, built as a specialized layer on top of core Google infrastructure, designed for enterprises to privately retain, analyze, and search the massive amounts of security and network telemetry they generate.

The company began as a product by X, but became its own company in January 2018. It creates tools for businesses to prevent cybercrime on their platforms.^[3] Chronicle announced "Backstory" at RSA 2019 in March,^[4] adding log capture and analysis to the family of products that include VirusTotal and UpperCase, which provide threat intelligence (Known Malicious IPs and URLs).^[5] Backstory claims to "extract signals from your security telemetry to find threats instantly" by combining log data with threat intelligence.

In June 2019, Thomas Kurian announced that Chronicle would be merged into Google Cloud.^[6]

Backstory and VirusTotal are now offered to Google Cloud customers as part of an Autonomic Security Operations solution that also includes Looker and BigQuery.^[7]

See also

• Mandiant

References

1. "Chronicle - Company". Chronicle.
2. Conger, Kate (25 January 2018). "Alphabet Launched A Moonshot Cybersecurity Company That Sounds Like Every Other Cybersecurity Company". Gizmodo Australia. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
3. Bhardwaj, Prachi (24 January 2018). "Google's parent company just announced a new project to give the digital world 'an immune system'". Business Insider. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
4. "Chronicle - Backstory". Chronicle.
5. Choo, Euijin; Nabeel, Mohamed; De Silva, Ravindu; Yu, Ting; Khalil, Issa (2022-05-26), A Large Scale Study and Classification of VirusTotal Reports on Phishing and Malware URLs, retrieved 2023-12-28
6. Kurian, Thomas (27 June 2019). "Google Cloud + Chronicle: The security moonshot joins Google Cloud".
7. "Google Cloud: Autonomic Security Operations".