Corelight Bright Ideas Blog: NDR & Threat Hunting Blog

World’s first 100G Zeek sensor

By Sarah Banks – May 23, 2021

As we finished rolling out Corelight’s v21 software release, which saw the delivery of the world’s first 100G, 1U Zeek sensor, I was reminded of when I’d first read the “100G Intrusion Detection” paper written in 2015 at Berkeley Lab. The paper... Read more »

Introducing RDP Inferences

By Anthony Kasza – May 19, 2021

Corelight recently released a new package, focused on RDP inferences, as part of our Encrypted Traffic Collection. This package runs on Corelight Sensors and provides network traffic analysis (NTA) inferences on live RDP traffic. Read more »

C2 detections, RDP insights and NDR at 100G

By John Gamble – May 17, 2021

Today I am excited to announce Corelight’s v21 release, which delivers dozens of powerful C2 detections, extends analyst visibility around RDP connections, and helps organizations scale network detection and response workloads in high throughput... Read more »

Introducing the C2 Collection and RDP inferences

By Vince Stoffer – May 17, 2021

We’re excited to announce that the Command and Control (C2) Collection is now available with today’s launch of version 21 of the Corelight software. One of the most important ways that defenders can quickly identify and contain a security incident... Read more »

How do you know?

By Charles Strauss – May 17, 2021

Can you be sure attackers aren’t hiding in your encrypted traffic? Can your investigators go back 18 months ago to find what they need? Do your DNS queries all have responses, and are they what you expected? Do your alerts mean something, or nothing? Read more »

Maximize your Splunk ES investment with Corelight

By Roger Cheeks – March 16, 2021

Are you looking to threat hunt but lack sufficient network and IDS data? Have you tried to accelerate your incident response process with better data, but run into dead ends that require data scientists or significant data model modification? Maybe... Read more »

Introducing the Cloud Sensor for GCP

By Vijit Nair – November 23, 2020

Visibility is paramount in securing your cloud environment – as the adage goes, you cannot protect what you do not see. However, comprehensive visibility in an IaaS (infrastructure as a service) environment is elusive – you need to make sure that... Read more »

Who’s your fridge talking to at night?

By Gary Fisk – November 18, 2020

I love origin stories – the tales of grand plans, unforeseen circumstances, and necessity that creates something new. These strange times have resulted in something new from Corelight, and I’d like to share how it came to be. Read more »

Small, fast and easy. Pick any three.

By Seth Hall – November 17, 2020

Zeek has been the darling of security defenders looking to get deep visibility into network traffic. Over the last two decades, Zeek has become a household name – widely used by enterprise organizations, educational institutions and government... Read more »

Meet the Corelight CTF tournament winners

By John Gamble – September 14, 2020

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 »