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.
More and more companies are realizing the importance of a unified cybersecurity system to shield against threats. Perhaps that's why cyberattacks on the network are becoming less common, dropping by almost 80% this quarter, according to our latest Internet Security Report (ISR). Even so, for SMBs, despite progress shown in adopting cybersecurity systems, the sheer volume of malware, as well as its rapid ability to change and evolve, poses a danger to company network systems.
New applications emerge at an almost impossible to keep-up-with pace, creating a constant challenge and blind spot for IT and security teams in the form of Shadow IT. Organizations must keep up by using tools that are automatically updated with latest developments and changes in the applications landscape to maintain proper security. An integral part of any SASE product is its ability to accurately categorize and map user traffic to the actual application being used.
Kubernetes offers excellent scalability and flexibility to your infrastructure. Yet, in the midst of this transformation, we’ve all grappled with the difficulties of local IPv4 addressing which usually leads to the implementation of Network Address Translation (NAT) and unfolds complexities that we’d instead like to avoid. As if that weren’t enough, the scarcity of public IPv4 addresses and their expensive rental costs loom over our digital ambitions.
Server Message Block (SMB) protocol is a communication protocol that allows users to communicate with remote servers and computers, which they can open, share, edit files, and even share and utilize resources. With the expansion of telecommunications, this protocol has been a prime target for threat actors to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and devices. In 2017, we introduced 5 general ways to protect your network from SMB risks.
