>"As privileged software attacks increase and more research becomes available on rootkits, we have committed to delivering secure boot and hardware-based root of trust for machines that form our infrastructure and host our Google Cloud workloads."
Google is not in this alone; it has a number of partners haring the same pursuit of security. Zack Whttaker in TechCrunch said the coalition "comes at a time when tech giants and governments alike are increasingly aware that hostile nation states are trying to infiltrate and compromise supply chains in an effort to carry out long-term surveillance or espionage."
