Inside Google’s Team Fighting to Keep Your Data Safe From Hackers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-googles-team-battling-hackers-11548264655 [www.wsj.com]
2019-01-24 08:26
Mr. Huntley doesn’t work for the National Security Agency or another government spy shop. He heads Google’s in-house counterespionage group, the Threat Analysis Group, which has emerged as an important force in the battle against hackers and a leading example of tech giants building up powerful cybersecurity defenses in an age of rising nation-state hacks.
The 27-person team tracks more than 200 hacker groups that pose a threat to Google and its users, analyzing hacking techniques and clues to the groups’ identities to head off attacks. It leverages access to data across widely used Google products like Gmail, with more than 1.5 billion accounts world-wide, and to a database of attack code called VirusTotal managed by another arm of Google-parent Alphabet Inc.