In the ever-escalating battle against cyber threats, security teams are often caught in a deluge of alerts, struggling to distinguish real threats from the noise. The sheer volume of threat data can be overwhelming, leading to alert fatigue and, worse, missed detections. But what if you could really cut through the clutter and focus on what truly matters?
Today, we're excited to announce Corelight Threat Intelligence, a new licensed feature powered by CrowdStrike, a recognized leader in threat intelligence and strategic partner of Corelight. This new offering integrates a market-proven, high-fidelity feed of tactical indicators of compromise (IOCs) directly into the Corelight Open NDR Platform, empowering your security operations center (SOC) to accelerate detections, reduce analyst toil, and respond to known and unknown threats with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
Threat intelligence is the beating heart of modern defense
In today's threat landscape, having access to timely, high-quality threat intelligence is critical to defending against increasingly sophisticated adversaries that operate with staggering speed and sophistication. We see this in the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report that highlights the average breakout time—how long it takes an attacker to move laterally from an initial foothold—has dropped to just 48 minutes, with the fastest observed at a mere 51 seconds. This is happening more frequently, despite the increasing years-long investment in layered defenses.
To make matters worse, attackers are increasingly successful at blending in with clever techniques that imitate legitimate user activity and bypassing traditional detection methods. The 2025 Verizon DBIR report highlighted the trend around the exploitation of edge devices and VPNs that are beyond the reach of an organization’s endpoint detection solution. Edge device exploitation, it claims, skyrocketed from 3% to 22% as a breach entry point in just one year, emphasizing the need for advanced visibility across the entire network.
Exceptional threat intelligence not only provides the essential context needed to identify such threats evading traditional defenses and lurking in your network, but it also helps reduce noisy false positives and elevate SOC efficiency.
This is where the combined strength of Corelight and CrowdStrike comes in. Trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide, CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence is powered by unique first-party telemetry and daily analysis of millions of malware samples from across its Falcon platform. Every indicator of compromise (IOC) is rigorously validated, scored, and continuously updated to ensure it is both relevant and actionable.
How important has threat intelligence become? The 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response (NDR) now considers effective threat intelligence essential for NDR solutions. While we continue to support easy integration with other third-party threat intelligence feeds, we now include one of the best in the industry as part of the Corelight platform.
Pairing Corelight ground-truth network evidence with CrowdStrike high-fidelity intelligence
The real advantage of Corelight Threat Intelligence lies in its seamless integration within Corelight’s Open NDR Platform. We’re not just adding a threat feed. We’re combining high-fidelity, context-rich IOCs from CrowdStrike with Corelight’s unparalleled network evidence to give your team the ultimate in validated, prioritized, and actionable alerts.
Integrating this curated, high-confidence threat intelligence into the Corelight platform fortifies our multi-layered detection strategy to deliver an uncompromising level of protection across your hybrid-cloud and multicloud environments. Our innovative detections include:
- AI/ML-Powered Detections: The Coreight Open NDR Platform leverages both unsupervised and supervised machine learning to detect a variety of novel and evasive threats. And this launch introduces compelling new evasive detections to uncover brute force attacks, lateral movement, Tor connections, and more.
- Behavioral Detections: Corelight identifies malicious or suspicious activity on the network by carefully analyzing different patterns of behavior. This approach identifies emerging threats and attacker techniques that legacy tools often miss, providing earlier and more reliable detection.
- Industry-Leading Signature and File Analysis: Corelight’s high-fidelity Zeek® and Suricata detections, alongside advanced file extraction and inspection capabilities, provide deep visibility into known threats, malicious payloads, and related file hashes, accelerating detection and response.
This powerful combination allows you to detect and respond to both known and unknown threats, as well as evasive adversary techniques that might otherwise go unnoticed with incredible speed and accuracy.
A new era of SOC efficiency
With the launch of Corelight Threat Intelligence, we are taking a significant step forward in our mission to empower the AI-centric SOC. By providing an integrated workflow with high-fidelity intelligence, ground-truth network evidence, and advanced, multi-layered detection capabilities, we’re helping security teams uplevel their protection, while dramatically reducing false positives and analyst workload.
Taking that one step further, we’re also introducing a new integration with Analyst1's Orchestrated Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) that strengthens security by automating the deployment and management of Suricata and YARA rules across your environment. This eliminates the slow, error-prone manual processes of maintaining rulesets, simplifying a critical aspect of security operations. As a result, threat intelligence is deployed more efficiently and reliably, enabling security teams to respond to threats with greater speed and confidence.
What are the primary benefits of Corelight’s new threat intelligence capabilities?
- Accelerated detections: With an IOC feed trusted by more than 30,000 organizations and updated hourly, you can rapidly identify known and novel threats in real time and with historical network data.
- Reduction of false positives: By correlating rigorously validated, scored, and continuously updated IOCs against rich network evidence, we eliminate the noise generated by low-fidelity feeds, allowing your analysts to focus on genuine threats with the highest confidence.
- Simplified operations: With integrated and automated threat intelligence, the Corelight Open NDR Platform reduces the cost and complexity of managing multiple threat intelligence vendors and feeds, streamlining your security operations.
In the face of increasingly sophisticated adversaries, we believe that a multi-layered, intelligence-driven approach to timely and effective threat detection is essential. Adding Corelight Threat Intelligence to the industry’s best network evidence arms your SOC with the network insights needed to not just fight back but to regain the advantage.
Want to learn more? Read the press release or visit the Corelight Threat Intelligence page.
