We are proud to announce that Corelight has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Network Analysis And Visibility (NAV) Solutions, Q4 2025. We believe this recognition reflects our focused innovation and the expanding capabilities of our Open NDR platform.
Why Corelight is a Leader
Forrester's evaluation underscores several core strengths that, in our opinion, distinguish Corelight in the NAV market. We believe our placement as a leader is rooted in our ability to provide real-time network data, enriched with the context security teams need, to proactively detect threats, accelerate investigations, and confidently respond to them across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
Our key capabilities cited in the Forrester report include:
- Comprehensive coverage and detection: Corelight achieved the highest score possible in the East-West and North-South traffic coverage criterion. Our platform delivers comprehensive protocol analysis that spans both enterprise IT and critical OT environments, ensuring visibility where it matters most.
- Flexible deployment and administration: We received the highest score possible in the deployment criterion. Our platform can be deployed on-premises and as SaaS, and monitoring can be extended to IaaS and Kubernetes environments.
- Trust and transparency: The Forrester report stated that Corelight enables enterprises to leverage Zeek at scale. Its open-source community gives the commercial solution a reputation for transparency and trust. This open core empowers our customers with unparalleled control and insight. The platform’s explainability helps SOC teams understand the rationale behind detections and empowers them to create custom detections to close the visibility gaps faster.
- Data-Centric vision and innovation: Our vision, innovation, and roadmap scored among the highest of all vendors evaluated. The Forrester report notes that Corelight positions its solution as a "network context force multiplier" designed to strengthen attack surface discovery and power the future SOC. For us, this recognition affirms our evidence-first strategy and our substantial investment in R&D.
Enhance your security operations with Corelight
We believe this recognition from Forrester validates what our customers already know: Corelight delivers the essential network evidence needed to detect and disrupt sophisticated attacks. Our Open NDR platform provides the context, flexibility, and power that modern SOCs require to defend their organizations effectively. With this recognition, Corelight has been named a leader across all five different industry analyst studies in 2025.
Learn more about why Corelight was named a Leader and how Open NDR can fortify your security posture.
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