Cyber resilience for state, local, and education institutions
Proven visibility and threat detection to protect mission-critical public infrastructure, schools, and research environments.
Achieve operational control
Corelight's evidence-based Open Network Detection and Response (NDR) Platform delivers superior network visibility. With Corelight, public sector security teams can find and investigate cyber incidents faster and more effectively, because we provide the context and evidence surrounding the incident with a simple pivot. We’re experts on what matters to government and higher education customers and partners, from compliance mandates to MTTD/MTTR metrics. No matter what you need, our ultimate goal is to help you build a resilient, operationally-directed security posture.
Zero trust
With increasing cyber threats and limited resources, SLED organizations need a network security solution that continuously verifies and monitors every device and user. Corelight delivers the visibility needed for a strong Zero Trust architecture, ensuring that every interaction is verified for security.
Network modernization
Corelight’s Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution helps SLED organizations build secure, resilient networks ready for cloud and hybrid environments. Whether supporting multi-cloud environments or securing public services, Corelight offers the visibility.
Cloud migration
Corelight provides comprehensive, correlated evidence across cloud environments such as AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and Google Cloud. This visibility empowers SLED organizations to move to the cloud confidently, maintaining strong security postures as they scale.
Compliance and funding
Corelight simplifies the reporting and audit processes, enabling seamless compliance and helping organizations unlock the funding they need for cybersecurity improvements. With Corelight, organizations can meet critical standards, such as FERPA, CJIS, and NIST, while aligning with cybersecurity funding programs like ESSER and ECF.
Threat intelligence and collaboration
Cyber threats don’t stop at organizational boundaries, and collaboration is key in defending against attacks. Corelight integrates with community-driven threat intelligence initiatives such as MS-ISAC to help state, local, and education organizations stay ahead of emerging threats.
Integrations for your environment
Corelight’s Open NDR Platform integrates seamlessly with the platforms, partners, and frameworks your teams already use. See more.
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Exceptional product and product support. Functionality and UI/UX is easy to grasp. Utility of the product is usable instantly.
Cybersecurity Engineer – Healthcare
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I like how feature rich the tools are, leveraging open source Zeek and Suricata but building a tremendous number of features for filtering, detecting and investigating network data.
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst – Education
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Corelight is great. The product is amazing but we have had really good experience with the team at Corelight adding additional value.
Cybersecurity Engineer – Education
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Everybody we work with is helpful, cheerful and knows their product so well. The Corelight team has been able to integrate the system with everything we use today.
Engineer – Government
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The Corelight product provides our organization deep, actionable insights into our network traffic, and integrates seamlessly with our SIEM.
Cybersecurity Specialist – Government
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The feature set is amazing, the set up was easy (easy-ish!) and it just WORKS.
Director, IT Security and Risk Management – Government
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The support team was extremely helpful and interested in understanding and helping us find solutions to our organizational security issues.
CTO – Government
Education organization achieves more rapid attack response
Grand Canyon Education trades black box NDR for Corelight's open source platform to get transparent and actionable detection logic for swift, confident response decisions.
Compliance standards and funding requirements
We understand the unique mandates, budget considerations, and security frameworks that guide state, local, and education organizations.
- Mapping to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework
- Adherence to Zero Trust tenets
- Network modernization
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
- NIST 800-53 and 800-171
- FIPS 140-2, NIAP Common Criteria (CC), SOC2, TAA, and GDPR compliance
- MS-ISAC best practices and threat intelligence
- FERPA, GLBA, and HIPAA compliance
- CJIS compliance
- ESSER and ECF funding alignment
- EDUCAUSE and higher education cybersecurity guidance
- State-specific data privacy laws (e.g., NY SHIELD Act, California CCP)
Purchasing
How to purchase:
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- Contract vehicles
- GSA IT Schedule 70 (No. GS-35F-0119Y)
- CDM Tools SIN (GSA CDM Tools SIN 132-44)
- SEWP V (NASA SEWP contracts NNG15SC03B and NNG15SC)
Certifications and compliance alignment
We understand the unique mandates, budget considerations, and security frameworks that guide state, local, and education organizations.
- FIPS 140-2: Corelight Sensors comply with the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2.Read more.
- SOC 2: Corelight is SOC 2 compliant, ensuring secure handling of sensitive data.
- TAA Compliance: Meets procurement requirements for U.S. public sector organizations.
- GDPR: Supports global data privacy standards, relevant for higher ed institutions.
- FERPA, HIPAA, and CJIS alignment: Corelight supports best practices for protecting education, health, and criminal justice data.
- MS-ISAC-aligned practices: Corelight helps SLED entities align with threat intelligence and guidance from the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
Corelight’s AI-powered Open NDR Platform
Get multi-layered detections, AI, intrusion detection (IDS), network security monitoring (NSM), static file analysis, and packet capture (PCAP) in a single security tool that’s powered by proprietary and open-source technologies Zeek® and Suricata®, and YARA.