Google is buying a company for half a billion dollars to boost cloud security
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google's $500 million acquisition of Israel-based startup Siemplify is supposed to help the company bolster its own cloud security initiative, Chronicle, according to a report from Reuters. In a blog post announcing the deal, Google describes Siemplify as a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) organization and plans to integrate its capabilities into Chronicle.
Siemplify allows Security Operation Center analysts to manage their operations from end-to-end"
Siemplify is an intuitive workbench that enables security teams to both manage risk better and reduce the cost of addressing threats," Sunil Potti, the vice president of Google Cloud Security, states in the blog post. Siemplify allows Security Operation Center...