Corelight Bright Ideas Blog

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday included a severe Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the way that Windows TCP/IP handles IPv6 “Router Advertisement” ICMP messages. Due to the severity and wide scope, we in Corelight Labs immediately set... Read more »

More than 15 years after Gartner declared that “IDS is dead” because it was too noisy to be effectively managed, alert fatigue continues to be a central theme of life in modern SOCs, with a majority of SOCs still unable to process all the alerts... Read more »

The past few weeks have seen several developments around Community ID, our open standard for rendering network traffic flow tuples into a concise textual representation. I’d like to summarize them in this blog post. Read more »

I often develop packages for Zeek in cluster mode. In this configuration, it can be difficult to debug your package because it is a continually running environment with real, and often unpredictable, network data. If you add to that other packages... Read more »

CVE-2020-1472 aka Zerologon, disclosed by Tom Tervoort of Secura, is an illustrative case study of how a small implementation mistake in cryptographic routines cascades into a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows an attacker to change the... Read more »

This summer, Corelight hosted a virtual CTF tournament where hundreds of players raced to solve security challenges using Zeek data in Splunk and Elastic. After the preliminary rounds, we invited the top performers back for a champions round and... Read more »

This post contains a warning and a solution for anyone using BPF syntax when filtering traffic for network security monitoring. Read more »

“There is an open approach that is currently rippling across the infosec industry that could give defenders the acceleration they need.” – John Lambert (Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft) Read more »

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 »