Corelight Bright Ideas Blog: NDR & Threat Hunting Blog

How SOCs can level up their PCAP game with Smart PCAP (Part 2)

By Roger Cheeks – July 13, 2023

This is the second in a 2 part series on Corelight Smart PCAP. If you missed Part 1, you can find it here. In terms of unencrypted traffic, several highly used protocols lend themselves to logging and can significantly reduce the burden of packet... Read more »

Key takeaways from RSA 2023: #BetterTogether and AI in security

By Ed Smith – May 8, 2023

Whether or not you made it to RSA 2023, here are two key themes we saw throughout this year’s conference. Read more »

New Sliver C2 Detection Released - Redteam detected

By Corelight Labs Team – May 4, 2023

We are excited to announce the release of a new detection package “Sliver”, which identifies and raises alerts related to the Sliver C2 framework. This new package joins our industrial-strength C2 Collection and uses a variety of techniques to... Read more »

How SOCs can level up their PCAP game with Smart PCAP

By Roger Cheeks – May 3, 2023

This blog post is the first in a 2 part series on Corelight Smart PCAP. Tune in next week for part two where we’ll take a deep dive look at Corelight’s PCAP functionality and workflows that accelerate security investigations. Read more »

VPNs are increasingly common - how much can you see?

By Vince Stoffer – March 24, 2022

New VPN Insights package shines the light on a growing blindspot VPN tunnels are like shipping containers in that they are widely used (especially as the pandemic has moved more of the workforce to remote work), and they can be used to carry traffic... 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 »

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 »

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 »

Zeek & Sigma: Fully compatible for cross-SIEM detections

By Alex Kirk – June 24, 2020

Corelight recently teamed up with SOC Prime, creators of advanced cyber analytics platforms, to add support for the entire Zeek data set into Sigma, the only generic signature language that enables cross-SIEM detections from a single toolset.... Read more »

The light shines even brighter: Updates to Corelight’s Encrypted Traffic Collection

By Vince Stoffer – June 15, 2020

With Corelight’s latest software release, v19, we are excited to announce the expansion of our Encrypted Traffic Collection (ETC). The ETC was introduced in late 2019, but as a reminder it’s a collection of security insights around SSL/TLS and SSH... Read more »