Richard Bejtlich

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 »

This post contains a warning and a solution for anyone using BPF syntax when filtering traffic for network security monitoring. 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 »

Editor’s Note: Richard recently shared his thoughts on our blog which are now included in an article contributed to StateTech on why the overarching role of the network and election infrastructure is worthy of a deep assessment right now. If state... Read more »

One of the most popular and regularly occurring questions I see in network security monitoring forums involves how to instrument a small office – home office (SOHO) environment. There are ways to accomplish this goal. For example, I instrument my... Read more »

Due to the tragic Covid-19 pandemic, as we are all experiencing first hand, most governments and health officials are either mandating or encouraging those who can work from home to do so, as part of widespread “social distancing” measures. Remote... Read more »

Vendors often claim that their products or services counter, mitigate, or otherwise affect “nation state threats.” When I worked as a director of incident response at one company, and as a chief security officer at another, claims like these made no... Read more »

RSA 2020 is fast approaching, and a colleague asked what talks I planned to attend. As I am not attending RSA, I thought I would answer her question anyway, with the hopes that those participating in the conference might benefit from my review of... Read more »

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, the world learned of the vulnerability du jour, CVE-2020-0601. As explained by Microsoft, “a spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)... Read more »

Recently a fan of network security monitoring (NSM) asked me for advice on his current instrumentation situation. He said his organization was new to NSM and was interested in pursuing solutions with Corelight. However, the company did not have any... Read more »