Corelight Bright Ideas Blog

Financial institutions, such as banks and trading houses, have a strong interest in recording key transaction activity within their networks. In the face of daunting data storage requirements, many are finding that Corelight’s network... Read more »

Introduction In November 2024, I participated in SCinet with the Network Security team at SC24. My job was supporting Corelight sensors and threat hunting using the data the sensors produced. Read more »

Introduction Zeek® is a powerful open-source network analysis tool that allows users to monitor traffic and detect malicious activities. Users can write packages to detect cybersecurity events, like this GitHub repo that detects C2 from AgentTesla... Read more »

According to Forrester Research, “How do we reduce our SIEM ingest costs?” is one of the top inquiries they receive from clients. Many security organizations rely on SIEMs for their detection, investigation, and response workflows, ingesting... Read more »

What is MITRE Caldera? MITRE’s Caldera is a cybersecurity platform developed to simulate adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Built upon the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Caldera is an open-source tool designed to help cybersecurity... Read more »

How Corelight Open NDR secures cloud workloads beyond runtime security tools. Read more »

Working in the network operating center (NOC) at Black Hat Europe, we’re never quite sure what we’re going to see. The anxiousness I feel there is similar to what I’d experience when I was blue-teaming for a corporate network. I could prepare all I... Read more »

If you have even a passing interest in cybersecurity, you no doubt have heard of Black Hat, the eponymously named conference that launched in 1997 in Las Vegas. Nearly 30 years later Black Hat is a global phenomenon that bears little resemblance to... Read more »

For SOC teams, the battle against cyber threats can feel like trying to solve a 3D jigsaw puzzle in a bouncy house with missing pieces and a timer blasting every few seconds. Despite the increase in security spending, most teams still struggle with... Read more »

If there’s one thing I love more than delivering great products, it’s delivering great food. The holidays are my time to channel my inner celebrity chef: I’ll burn a few cookies, over-spice a roast, and then miraculously pull it all together for a... Read more »