Bright Ideas Blog

VPNs are increasingly common - how much can you see?

By Vince Stoffer – March 24, 2022

New VPN Insights package shines the light on a growing blindspot VPN tunnels are like shipping containers in that they are widely used (especially as the pandemic has moved more of the workforce to remote work), and they can be used to carry traffic... Read more »

Know your environment: Tenable/Corelight integration for prioritized IDS alerts

By Alex Kirk – March 10, 2022

One of the major causes of alert fatigue for SOCs is a class of alerts that fall in between false positives and useful detections: when an actual attack has been launched, and the detection is working correctly, but the host on the receiving end is... Read more »

One SIEM is not enough?

By Brian Dye – March 3, 2022

The idea behind the SIEM (and now XDR!) technologies was to provide a single engine at the heart of the SOC, aggregating data, enabling analytics and powering workflow automation. The SIEM would act as one place to train analysts and integrate a... Read more »