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Dual Defenses: 10 Reasons Why NDR Is Essential Alongside EDR

Over the last few years, the evolution of cybersecurity strategies has seen a significant shift toward a more layered, nuanced, and, in many cases, advanced approach. Among these advancements, Network Detection and Response (NDR) has emerged as a critical component that continues to become more widely recognized and accepted across the industry for its efficacy in bolstering cybersecurity defenses.

Cybersecurity Threat Survival in 2024

Dealing with cybersecurity threats has become a constant challenge for organizations and tech professionals. The landscape is evolving, with cybercriminals employing increasingly sophisticated tactics. As we step into 2024, a year marked by economic uncertainty, staff layoffs, and the aftermath of widespread hybrid and remote work adoption, cyber threats are poised to exploit vulnerabilities within organizations.

10 Botnet Detection and Removal Best Practices

If your device suddenly behaves like a re-animated zombie, you might be under a Botnet attack. Also known as a zombie army, these attacks involve hijacking internet-connected devices infected with malware, controlled remotely by a single hacker. The scale of these attacks is immense, as demonstrated by a cyber assault that exploited 1.5 million connected cameras to overwhelm and take down a journalist’s website.

Detect unknown network threats with Calico Cloud Honeypods

Based on the well-known cybersecurity method, “honeypots”, Calico Cloud runtime security approach of Honeypods as decoy pods are designed to attract traffic to them from malicious sources and to detect suspicious activity within a Kubernetes cluster.

Black Hat NOC USA 2023: Leveraging Corelight's Open NDR Platform for Network Operations (NetOps)

In this blog, I’ll share a few NetOps observations of the Black Hat network that I made during my time serving in the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC). My hope in doing so is to spark some ideas on how you can use an existing tool like Zeek for a new purpose. These insights were particularly revealing, despite not being linked to any security incidents.

Top 10 Fraud Detection Solutions for 2024

It’s natural to want to believe that every new account creation or online purchase signals the legitimate growth of your business. But the alarming rise in financial and data losses attributed to fraud, suggests a different reality. There are thousands of bad actors actively looking to nickel and dime businesses and consumers. In 2022, a staggering 2.4 million fraud reports flooded the Consumer Sentinel Record.

What Is EDR Security and How Does It Fit into Your Cybersecurity Strategy?

Back in 2013, Gartner’s Anton Chuvakin set out to name a new set of security solutions to detect suspicious activity on endpoints. After what he called “a long agonizing process that involved plenty of conversations with vendors, enterprises, and other analysts” Chuvakin came up with this phrase: endpoint threat detection and response. Since then, this moniker has been shortened to endpoint detection and response or EDR. But as the name got smaller, the market got bigger.

MDR vs MSSP vs SIEM: The Evolving Threat Detection Landscape

Effective threat detection is critical to achieving a mature cybersecurity posture. Yet with so many threat detection options on the market, from managed detection and response (MDR) to managed security service providers (MSSPs) to security information and event management (SIEM), choosing the most effective one for your organization can be challenging.

Inside the Mind of a Cybersecurity Threat Hunter Part 1: Confronting Initial Access Techniques

At Corelight, we’re always striving to make the life of threat hunters and security analysts a little easier. It’s the reason we developed our Open NDR Platform that provides comprehensive, correlated network data and forensic evidence about everything happening on the network. If you’re familiar with Corelight, you probably already know that.