For Customers, Backstory’s Lure is Data, Economics

Alphabet’s Chronicle has launched Backstory, a security data analysis platform leveraging Google-scale infrastructure and ML to ingest and correlate large, diverse data streams — appealing to organizations struggling with massive security and OT data. The article discusses market implications for incumbents (e.g., Splunk), potential OT use cases including industrial control visibility (citing the 2016 Ukraine power outages), pricing advantages for high-volume data, and customer concerns about data sharing and analytics built on the platform.