Blackhat

I have been working in the cyber security space for over 25 years. I have spent time in security operations centers (SOCs) within the US Department of Defense, taught cyber warfare operators, secured large enterprise networks and, most recently,... Read more »

Black Hat Asia 2025 has come and gone, and it was another whirlwind of a conference. Thank you to our partners—Arista, Cisco, MyRepublic, and Palo Alto Networks—for making it a successful conference! It’s an exhilarating experience: sitting in the... 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 »

Another big day in the NOC Welcome to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. I've finished another morning shift in the Black Hat NOC, where the Corelight team has been working with the other NOC partners as part of our ongoing commitment... Read more »

In the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC), the conference’s leadership team must assemble best-in-class technologies that complement each other to build and harden an enterprise-grade network in just a few days. Then, the NOC must... Read more »

Zero Trust…but Verify The Black Hat network is unlike an enterprise network. The network operations center (NOC), which Corelight helps to operate, sees traffic that would never be permissible on most enterprise networks. Still, in many ways the... Read more »

In this blog, I’ll share a few NetOps observations of the Black Hat network that I made during my time serving in the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC). My hope in doing so is to spark some ideas on how you can use an existing tool like Zeek... Read more »

It has been a distinct honor to be a part of the Corelight team that helped defend this year’s Black Hat events. I started the event season in the Network Operations Center (NOC) at Black Hat Asia, and then capped it off at Black Hat in Las Vegas.... Read more »

During this year’s Black Hat in Las Vegas, I learned (or was reminded of) many lessons working alongside my Corelight colleagues and Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) teammates from Arista, Cisco, Lumen, NetWitness and Palo Alto Networks.... Read more »