Mark Overholser

Black Hat Asia 2025 has come and gone, and it was another whirlwind of a conference. Thank you to our partners—Arista, Cisco, MyRepublic, and Palo Alto Networks—for making it a successful conference! It’s an exhilarating experience: sitting in the... Read more »

Working in the network operating center (NOC) at Black Hat Europe, we’re never quite sure what we’re going to see. The anxiousness I feel there is similar to what I’d experience when I was blue-teaming for a corporate network. I could prepare all I... Read more »

In the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC), the conference’s leadership team must assemble best-in-class technologies that complement each other to build and harden an enterprise-grade network in just a few days. Then, the NOC must... Read more »

Zero Trust…but Verify The Black Hat network is unlike an enterprise network. The network operations center (NOC), which Corelight helps to operate, sees traffic that would never be permissible on most enterprise networks. Still, in many ways the... Read more »

During this year’s Black Hat in Las Vegas, I learned (or was reminded of) many lessons working alongside my Corelight colleagues and Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) teammates from Arista, Cisco, Lumen, NetWitness and Palo Alto Networks.... Read more »