Network Traffic Analysis

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 »

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 »

Recently, Trustwave reported on a new malware family which they discovered during a breach investigation. The backdoor, dubbed Pingback, executes on Windows systems and communicates with its controller via ICMP messages. ICMP (Internet Control... Read more »

I often develop packages for Zeek in cluster mode. In this configuration, it can be difficult to debug your package because it is a continually running environment with real, and often unpredictable, network data. If you add to that other packages... Read more »

Some critics claim that ever growing encryption renders network security monitoring useless. This opinion is based on a dated understanding of the types and values of data collected and analyzed by computer incident response teams (CIRTs) that... Read more »

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 »

In this post, we’ll explore DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Read more »

Some things just go well together. A privilege of working with very sophisticated defenders in the open source community is seeing the design patterns they use to secure their organizations – both technology and workflows. One of the most common has... Read more »

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 »