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Corelight Open NDR Platform

byCorelight
in
4.8
Market Presence: Network Detection and Response, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems

Overview

Product Information on Corelight Open NDR Platform

Updated 21st October 2025

What is Corelight Open NDR Platform?

Corelight's Open NDR Platform transforms network and cloud activity into evidence so defenders can stay ahead of ever-changing attacks. Delivered through an open, extensible architecture powered by Zeek, Suricata, and YARA, it combines network security monitoring, intrusion detection, static file analysis, AI, and Smart PCAP in one platform. Corelight applies the right detection approach per threat, using machine learning, behavioral analytics, and signatures to reduce false positives and accelerate detection engineering response time. By correlating alerts, packets, and context into structured, comprehensive evidence, Corelight enhances visibility, analytics, and investigation speed while integrating seamlessly with existing SIEM, XDR, and SOAR tools.

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Overall experience with Corelight Open NDR Platform

SENIOR SECURITY ANALYST
50M - 250M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Corelight NDR enabling streamlined and precise incident analysis through network metadata”

5.0
Nov 20, 2025
Corelight NDR is an essential tool that greatly simplifies the detection and triage of security events through network data. Evidence collected through the sensor simplifies detection of malicious behavior, as well as providing immediate insight into all the affected machines. It provides a great platform to analyze and find irregularities and misconfigurations in the network. The provided data can be directly utilized for system and network security hardening as well as a verification method for validating hardening efforts. The solution just works and usually there is no need for customer support. Nevertheless, when needed, customer support is fast to respond and resolve any issues that might arise.
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
50M - 250M USD, Miscellaneous
CRITICAL

“Challenges With Centralized Management In Multi-Environment Deployments Of Sensor Networks”

3.0
Dec 18, 2025
I feel this vendor could be better at listening to and working with customers to provide product improvement in a timely manner

About Company

Company Description

Updated 12th December 2024

Corelight is a company that primarily focuses on network security. Its objective is to transform network and cloud data into detailed evidence to help counter ever-evolving cyber threats. The company offers an open Network Detection and Response (NDR) platform that provides a comprehensive, correlated view of the network, granting unmatched visibility to users. With the advantage of swift investigation, expert-like cyber threat hunting and potential attack disruption capabilities, Corelight targets to enhance cybersecurity preparedness. It offers both on-premise and cloud-based sensors capable of capturing standard industry telemetry and insights that align with pre-existing user tools and processes. Clients of Corelight span diverse sectors, including large scale businesses, government agencies and research institutions.

Company Details

Updated 12th August 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2016
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
201 - 500
Website
https://www.corelight.com

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Corelight Open NDR Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

Ease of deployment and implementation. Quick deployment in the environment without the need of installing additional agents. After providing network traffic to the sensor, data immediately shows up in the Corelight console. Extraction of network data in a minimal and easily readable format that makes security triage and analysis faster and more straightforward. Additionally, if any alert is detected, it enables in depth analysis of network packets which are captured through the efficient SmartPCAP technology. Encrypted traffic analysis provides high fidelity insights into encrypted traffic (e.g., HTTPS, SSH, VPN, and DNS over TLS) without the need for traffic decryption. The underlying engine enables extraction of all relevant data from the encrypted traffic with no impact on the traffic analysis performance. Enables capturing of files across all analyzed traffic and storage of files for automated analysis. This is further enhanced by the YARA scanning functionality that detects potentially malicious files transferred through the network. Reliability and speed of traffic capture, data collection and data analytics. Traffic is parsed and quickly forwarded to the Corelight SIEM where it is available for analysis in less than a minute. Readiness of technical and customer support to jump on a call and discuss improvements to the platform provides peace of mind when using the solution. The Corelight team really aims at making a quality product that will streamline detection and response activities as much as possible by providing valuable information to security analysts.

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Like

The clarity and structure of the data. Corelight gives us high-fidelity, well-enriched logs that are actionable instead of chaotic. The detections are more organized, the data is richer, and investigations move faster because we are able to lay everything out in a way that makes sense. Sensor management is easy and the overall stability of the sensors has been a major plus. The product is consistently working towards reducing the noise and that's rare in this space.

Dislike

Integration with EDR vendors - Integration exists but is limited to querying EDR vendors API endpoints. This can provide great context but it is far from a fully integrated console that would integrate EDR and NDR telemetry into one timeline. Limitations on Alerting capabilities - Currently one can only create alerts based on Zeek and Suricata detections. There is no ability to create custom alerts in the Investigator SIEM based on the collected network data. Cloud traffic inspection can incur sizeable additional costs - If using a cloud provider that doesn't natively support Cloud Network TAPs the price hike for monitoring cloud network infrastructure is significant.

Dislike

The lack of having fully centralized operational management in environments with a large number of sensors deployed across multiple environments

Dislike

The product is incredibly powerful, but some tuning requires trial and error before everything aligns the way you want. Certain detections and log types can feel a bit rigid in terms of customization, and more granular configuration options would help streamline deployments. Additionally, scaling log volume can overwhelm our SIEM licensing, so it requires careful planning to avoid ingest bloat. None of these are deal-breakers, but they are areas where more flexibility could make the experience better.

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Peer Discussions

Corelight Open NDR Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.8

(126 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
80%
4 Star
19%
3 Star
1%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.9

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • SENIOR SECURITY ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Corelight NDR enabling streamlined and precise incident analysis through network metadata

    5.0
    Nov 20, 2025
    Corelight NDR is an essential tool that greatly simplifies the detection and triage of security events through network data. Evidence collected through the sensor simplifies detection of malicious behavior, as well as providing immediate insight into all the affected machines. It provides a great platform to analyze and find irregularities and misconfigurations in the network. The provided data can be directly utilized for system and network security hardening as well as a verification method for validating hardening efforts. The solution just works and usually there is no need for customer support. Nevertheless, when needed, customer support is fast to respond and resolve any issues that might arise.
  • IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE
    50M-1B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Corelight Improves Network Visibility But Requires Careful Tuning and SIEM Planning

    5.0
    Nov 20, 2025
    Our experience with Corelight has been consistently strong. The platform delivers reliable, high-quality network visibility without drowning us in noise, and it has integrated strongly with our existing SIEM and workflows. The sensors have remained stable and easy to manage through the management application, and the data fidelity has improved our ability to investigate suspicious activity in both IT and OT. The support team has been responsive, knowledgeable, and genuinely invested in assisting us optimize our deployment. Corelight has made our detection and response efforts significantly more efficient and more confident.
  • Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    Death of NDR is greatly exaggerated

    5.0
    Jan 14, 2026
    Corelight have been great and engaged with us from initial deployment stages through to ongoing maintenance in production. Product gets updated frequently with new functionality that is genuinely useful capability additions.
  • Engineering Manager
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Excellent customer support and GUI makes administration simple

    5.0
    Jan 14, 2026
    Corelight staff have been friendly, knowledgeable, and prompt about providing support whenever we have asked, which has occurred on a range of topics over the course of the last year. I have been impressed with their level of responsiveness compared to other vendors, and I have not had a single negative interaction with Corelight even while troubleshooting product problems or issues, which says a lot about their staff's professionalism and courtesy.
  • senior security analyst
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    High quality, user friendly security device with an excellent development team.

    5.0
    Nov 17, 2025
    The product itself is open source, but the experience/good practices/new security insights exchanged with us is extremely useful and brings us a much added value. Some modules are not open source, those are developed by the labs team. But as we can have direct contact with them, cooperation is quick and easy. Summary: he software does what it needs to do, but a lot of experience from the internal teams is shared with us as a customer. With other suppliers it is impossible to talk direct to developers and specialized tech teams.
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