Zeek

Want to use Zeek (formerly Bro) network data in Splunk ES, but don’t know how to start or where to look? Read more »

With almost two decades of networking experience, I recently made my first foray into a security-centric user conference at Zeek Week, an annual conference for the user community of the open source network security monitoring platform known as Zeek... Read more »

When we think about using Corelight data, our mental models often fixate on finding evidence of suspicious and malicious activity. This makes sense, as network security monitoring data generated by Corelight and Zeek combines the granularity of... Read more »

Introduction Recently I heard that a company interested in Corelight was considering delaying their evaluation because of questions about SIEM technology. They currently have two SIEMs and are evaluating a third, possibly to replace the first two.... Read more »

In the course of my network security monitoring work at Corelight, I’ve encountered the terms detection, inference, and identification. In this post I will examine what these terms mean, and how they can help you describe the work you do when... Read more »

Introduction This week I read a story announcing that the latest edition of Whonix had been released. I had heard of Whonix, but had never tried it. I knew it was a Linux distribution that tried to make it as easy and safe as possible to anonymize... Read more »

Corelight Sensors transform network traffic into comprehensive logs, extracted files, and custom insights via Zeek, a powerful, open-source network security monitoring framework used by thousands of organizations worldwide to accelerate incident... Read more »

Introduction Welcome to part 2 of my three-part series on TLS. In the previous article I briefly introduced TLS, and showed how Corelight would produce logs for a clear-text HTTP session. In this article I will perform the same transaction using TLS... Read more »

Introduction I’ve written previously about Corelight data and encryption. I wanted to know how TLS 1.3 would appear in Corelight data, and compare the same network conversation over clear-text HTTP, TLS 1.2, and TLS 1.3. In this first of three... Read more »

Introduction On May 14 Microsoft released patches for, and details about, a remote code execution vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services (RDS), the graphical interactive desktop offered with most Windows operating system platforms. This... Read more »