Corelight Bright Ideas Blog

This post is a departure from previous editions. It is inspired by discussions I’ve had recently with a few different online and in-person communities. I will present my view on the topic, but I’m more interested in hearing what readers think! Read more »

At the recent RSA Conference, Chronicle launched Backstory, a new security analytics platform, and we are pleased to share that Corelight is part of the Chronicle Index Partner program. Read more »

When we hear the phrase “first, do no harm,” most of us think of the Hippocratic Oath and its guidance for physicians. I was surprised to learn that the phrase as translated does not actually appear in the Greek, and that the origins are more... Read more »

Last week’s RSA announcements included a pair of new entrants in to the SIEM space, Google Chronicle’s Backstory and Microsoft’s Azure Sentinel. While the entry of larger players in to the SIEM space is an eyebrow-raiser on its own, in conjunction... Read more »

2018 was undoubtedly a banner year for Corelight. We closed out 2018 with many successes under our belt that reflect the hard work of our people: We more than quadrupled our sales year-over-year and more than doubled our customer base and employee... Read more »

Scale is a great word, because its meaning is truly in the eye of the beholder. To an astronomer, it might mean millions of light years. To a chemist, nanometers. In the network security monitoring (NSM) world, Corelight is enabling scale in two... Read more »

In my last post I introduced the idea that analysis of encrypted HTTP traffic requires different analytical models. If you wish to preserve the encryption (and not inspect it via a middlebox), you have to abandon direct inspection of HTTP payloads... Read more »

This post is part of a multi-part series on encryption and network security monitoring. This post covers a brief history of encryption on the web and investigates the security analysis challenges that have developed as a result. I’ve been hearing... Read more »

In response to my previous article in this blog series, some readers asked “why monitor the network at all?” This question really struck me, as it relates to a core assumption of mine. In this post I will offer a few reasons why network owners have... Read more »

Welcome to the first in a regular series of blog posts on network security monitoring (NSM). Read more »