Chapter 27: The Young Executive
While Ethan was busy negotiating the sale of Drake Systems, Google’s programmers were sweating under the sharp, annoyed gaze of Amelia.
It had barely been a week since OmniTech handed them the demo of its cybersecurity software, Sentinel.
To call it groundbreaking would be a massive understatement.
The software was years ahead of anything currently available in the tech market—so much so that it wasn’t even funny.
The security fortress Google was once so proud of had been infiltrated within minutes of scanning. Every single vulnerability was laid bare.
Amelia, the one in charge of testing Sentinel’s capabilities, had been the first to realize what they were dealing with.
When the initial results came in, there was a collective silence across the team, a stunned disbelief that quickly turned into a scramble.
Sentinel hadn’t just outperformed their internal tools, it had obliterated them. Every exploit, every single hidden weakness, every backdoor that even their most seasoned engineers had overlooked was quickly exposed.
This quickly made it to the higher-ups, and within forty-eight hours, an emergency board meeting was called
It was supposed to be a strategic review, but it turned into a panic-fueled debate as soon as the capabilities of the demo version was made known.
Since the two founders couldn’t make it, the decision was left entirely to the board and the CEO, and the board had gotten greedy, wanting Sentinel for themselves.