Corelight Bright Ideas Blog

Editor’s Note: Richard recently shared his thoughts on our blog which are now included in an article contributed to StateTech on why the overarching role of the network and election infrastructure is worthy of a deep assessment right now. If state... Read more »

One of the most popular and regularly occurring questions I see in network security monitoring forums involves how to instrument a small office – home office (SOHO) environment. There are ways to accomplish this goal. For example, I instrument my... Read more »

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 »

Due to the tragic Covid-19 pandemic, as we are all experiencing first hand, most governments and health officials are either mandating or encouraging those who can work from home to do so, as part of widespread “social distancing” measures. Remote... Read more »

Introducing Corelight’s new story + the value of NTA Read more »

Vendors often claim that their products or services counter, mitigate, or otherwise affect “nation state threats.” When I worked as a director of incident response at one company, and as a chief security officer at another, claims like these made no... Read more »

RSA 2020 is fast approaching, and a colleague asked what talks I planned to attend. As I am not attending RSA, I thought I would answer her question anyway, with the hopes that those participating in the conference might benefit from my review of... Read more »

In addition to other great news we’ve recently shared, I’m pleased to announce that Corelight sensors now support the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) via our Corelight ECS Mapping. Read more »

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, the world learned of the vulnerability du jour, CVE-2020-0601. As explained by Microsoft, “a spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)... Read more »

“Remember, all I’m offering is the truth” – Morpheus, from the movie Matrix (1999) Read more »