By Sarah Banks, Senior Director of Product Management, Corelight 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 (formerly Bro) held last month in Seattle. […]
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No Tap? No Problem!
By Richard Bejtlich, Principal Security Strategist, Corelight 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 network taps in place. He wanted to know […]
The Sun Sets on TLS 1.0
By Johanna Amann, Software Engineer, Corelight Editor’s note: This post is the result of the author’s work at the International Computer Science Institute where she works as a senior researcher. In the last months, the major web browsers (Safari, Firefox, Edge, Chrome) announced their intent to disable support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in […]
An attack or just a game? Corelight can help you tell the difference quickly
By Richard Bejtlich, Principal Security Strategist, Corelight 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 high-fidelity traffic evidence with the compact features of storage-friendly data. However, […]
A Conversation with GE’s Former CIO on Three Keys to CIRT Success
By Richard Bejtlich, Principal Security Strategist, Corelight Earlier this month during Black Hat I had the good fortune to speak with Gary Reiner, a business leader for whom I have an immense amount of respect. Gary was the chief information officer (CIO) at General Electric (GE) for 20 years, and as such he was the […]
The Elephant in the SIEM War Room
By Brian Dye, Chief Product Officer, Corelight Last week’s RSA announcements included a pair of new entrants in to the SIEM space, Google Chronicle’s Backstory and Microsoft’s Azure Sentinel. While the entry of larger players in to the SIEM space is an eyebrow-raiser on its own, in conjunction with the existing competitive fray it is pretty amazing. The good […]
Network security monitoring vs supply chain backdoors
By Richard Bejtlich, Principal Security Strategist, Corelight On October 4, 2018, Bloomberg published a story titled “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies,” with a subtitle “The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive […]
How Bro logs gave one company better DNS traffic visibility than their DNS servers
By Howard Samuels, Director of Sales Engineering at Corelight Bro provides enriched network visibility for top organizations around the world, and there are many use cases for Bro logs. The security field uses Bro data for incident response and cyber threat hunting. But Bro log use cases don’t always have to involve finding bad actors, […]