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 […]
Tag Archives: Network Security Monitoring
Twenty years of network security monitoring: from the AFCERT to Corelight
By Richard Bejtlich, Principal Security Strategist, Corelight I am really fired up to join Corelight. I’ve had to keep my involvement with the team a secret since officially starting on July 20th. Why was I so excited about this company? Let me step backwards to help explain my present situation, and forecast the future. Twenty […]
Databricks + Corelight – A powerful combination for cybersecurity, incident response and threat hunting
By Alan Saldich, CMO, Corelight and Brian Dirking, Sr. Director Partner Marketing, Databricks Incident response, threat hunting and cybersecurity in general relies on great data. Just like the rest of the world where virtually everything these days is data-driven, from self-driving cars to personalized medicine, effective security strategies also need to be data-driven. Whatever security […]
How we decide what Bro capabilities to include in our Sensor
By Seth Hall, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Corelight We started Corelight to bring the power of Bro network monitoring to an audience that is interested in security, stability, and long-term sustainability. Even though we created and built Bro over the last 20 years, when we developed our commercial product we made some design decisions […]
Extensibility as a Guiding Principle
By Christian Kreibich, Senior Engineer at Corelight If you’ve ever used Bro, you’ve likely noticed that it’s rather more flexible than other network monitoring solutions. This is not coincidence — it reflects a core principle that has underpinned the evolution of the Bro platform since its beginnings two decades ago. This principle has afforded users […]
Securing the Corelight Sensor
By Steve Smoot, VP Customer Success @ Corelight Have you ever considered how security tools can be a source of risk? They process untrusted data 24/7, have access to sensitive flows, and (like everything on the Internet) can be exploited if not patched regularly. At Corelight, we want our products to be a source […]