Corelight Bright Ideas Blog

Recently a fan of network security monitoring (NSM) asked me for advice on his current instrumentation situation. He said his organization was new to NSM and was interested in pursuing solutions with Corelight. However, the company did not have any... Read more »

Network and security infrastructure, such as routers, switches, firewalls, virtual private network concentrators, and other equipment, are designed to provide a stable and secure communications experience for client and server computers and their... Read more »

Editor’s note: This post is the result of the author’s work at the International Computer Science Institute where she works as a senior researcher. Read more »

When we think about using Corelight data, our mental models often fixate on finding evidence of suspicious and malicious activity. This makes sense, as network security monitoring data generated by Corelight and Zeek combines the granularity of... Read more »

Earlier this month during Black Hat I had the good fortune to speak with Gary Reiner, a business leader for whom I have an immense amount of respect. Gary was the chief information officer (CIO) at General Electric (GE) for 20 years, and as such he... Read more »

Introduction Recently I heard that a company interested in Corelight was considering delaying their evaluation because of questions about SIEM technology. They currently have two SIEMs and are evaluating a third, possibly to replace the first two.... Read more »

In the course of my network security monitoring work at Corelight, I’ve encountered the terms detection, inference, and identification. In this post I will examine what these terms mean, and how they can help you describe the work you do when... Read more »

Introduction This week I read a story announcing that the latest edition of Whonix had been released. I had heard of Whonix, but had never tried it. I knew it was a Linux distribution that tried to make it as easy and safe as possible to anonymize... Read more »

Corelight Sensors transform network traffic into comprehensive logs, extracted files, and custom insights via Zeek, a powerful, open-source network security monitoring framework used by thousands of organizations worldwide to accelerate incident... Read more »

Corelight just released our v17 software release and it’s packed with a number of cool new features including the Input Framework, Community ID, and MITRE’s BZAR collection of detections for lateral movement. Let me share a few details about how... Read more »