Corelight Bright Ideas Blog: NDR & Threat Hunting Blog

How metadata wrestled control of FINRA’s colossal data archiving requirements

By Richard Chitamitre – March 7, 2025

The financial industry is known for its rigorous and sometimes quirky data retention requirements that can challenge even the most seasoned security expert. Read more »

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 »

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 »

Smart PCAP and threat detection in the cloud

By John Gamble – August 3, 2021

I am thrilled to publicly launch Corelight software version 22, which introduces a transformative new security product, Smart PCAP, and also enables threat detection in the cloud by extending Corelight’s Open NDR support for Suricata across... Read more »