Corelight Bright Ideas Blog: NDR & Threat Hunting Blog

How SOCs can level up their PCAP game with Smart PCAP (Part 2)

By Roger Cheeks – July 13, 2023

This is the second in a 2 part series on Corelight Smart PCAP. If you missed Part 1, you can find it here. In terms of unencrypted traffic, several highly used protocols lend themselves to logging and can significantly reduce the burden of packet... Read more »

How SOCs can level up their PCAP game with Smart PCAP

By Roger Cheeks – May 3, 2023

This blog post is the first in a 2 part series on Corelight Smart PCAP. Tune in next week for part two where we’ll take a deep dive look at Corelight’s PCAP functionality and workflows that accelerate security investigations. Read more »

Maximize your Splunk ES investment with Corelight

By Roger Cheeks – March 16, 2021

Are you looking to threat hunt but lack sufficient network and IDS data? Have you tried to accelerate your incident response process with better data, but run into dead ends that require data scientists or significant data model modification? Maybe... Read more »

NDR for AWS Well-Architected

By Roger Cheeks – August 5, 2020

Corelight is a powerful network traffic analysis tool that enables network detection and response (NDR) for AWS Cloud workloads by receiving packets from an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) traffic mirror and cloud packet brokers. Corelight extracts... Read more »

Corelight Splunk App update: New dashboard and data

By Roger Cheeks – July 19, 2020

In support of Corelight’s latest software release, v19, we are pleased to launch our newest installment of the Corelight App for Splunk (Corelight App) and the Corelight Technical Add-on (TA). Both software packages are available on Splunkbase. The... Read more »

Watch over DNS traffic with Corelight and Splunk

By Roger Cheeks – March 31, 2020

Corelight sensors put your organization in the best position to watch over DNS traffic with a rich, powerful Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) data set. This article highlights the benefits of Corelight DNS logs, and demonstrates how Splunk Enterprise... Read more »