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Alphabet’s Chronicle Exec Talks IoT Security – SDxCentral

Chronicle is a security company that spun out of Alphabet’s secretive X research lab. In an interview with SDxCentral at Black Hat, Caccia said IoT amplifies many of the challenges that companies still struggle with.

“A lot of these trends are continuing: more people online, moving to the cloud, you control less, there’s more areas for attacks, you start to have more devices that you don’t even know are connected to your network,” he said.

Plus, attacks are getting bigger and more frequent. And there aren’t enough trained security professionals to tackle the growing problems. “The biggest challenge is keeping up with change,” he said. “Things change so fast, the attacks are new all the time, and companies just can’t keep up.”

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