Cybersecurity

Google’s parent company just announced a new project to give the digital world 'an immune system'

Alphabet's "X," the research and development team founded by Google to develop solutions that address global issues, wants to help security teams prevent cyber attacks before they have to deal with the repercussions.

X prides itself in addressing large-scale problems like traffic safety by creating new technologies that do more than just building off of existing tools. Now, it's taking on cybercrime as its next mission with a new independent company called Chronicle, which CEO Stephen Gillett announced via a Medium post on Wednesday morning.

"The reality for most companies today when it comes to cybersecurity is reactive: find and clean up the damage. The real moonshot, which is still several years away, is predicting and deflecting cyber attacks before they infiltrate an organization’s network," Astro Teller, leader of X, said in a separate Medium post.

Gillett's announcement went into detail about how Chronicle intends to make that moonshot a reality.