Corelight’s AWS Flow Monitoring Ends Cloud Blind Spots
▼ Summary
– Corelight’s Flow Monitoring for AWS provides comprehensive network visibility across cloud and hybrid environments while reducing SIEM and storage costs by up to 90%.
– The solution addresses security gaps in AWS environments where native flow logs offer limited detail and traffic mirroring is impractical or too costly.
– It transforms raw AWS flow data into enriched, security-ready intelligence using Zeek format with threat intelligence and metadata for faster threat detection.
– Flow Monitoring delivers unified visibility across virtual networks, containers, and cloud workloads while eliminating blind spots in the attack surface.
– The standardized data format enables consistent security workflows across hybrid environments, cutting investigation times in half and eliminating custom parsing needs.
Corelight has introduced a new Flow Monitoring solution for AWS environments, delivering unified network visibility across cloud and hybrid infrastructures. This innovation enables security teams to monitor traffic within AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) settings while significantly cutting SIEM and storage expenses, by as much as 90% compared to conventional raw flow log ingestion methods.
As more businesses migrate operations to the cloud, security professionals struggle to maintain effective threat detection amid soaring data volumes and costs. Native AWS flow logs offer only basic summaries, and traffic mirroring often can’t be deployed across an entire AWS environment. This forces many teams to accept either limited visibility or none at all across virtual networks, containers, and serverless workloads, undermining the effectiveness of security operations.
Vijit Nair, Corelight’s Vice President of Product, emphasized that security teams should not have to choose between comprehensive oversight and budget management. He explained that their Flow Monitoring solution converts high-volume, low-context AWS flow data into enriched, security-focused intelligence. This transformation not only lowers costs but also strengthens detection capabilities, extending Corelight’s ability to deliver industry-leading network visibility. Customers can now more easily spot anomalies, enhance threat hunting, and speed up incident response.
Closing cloud security gaps
Corelight’s Flow Monitoring works alongside existing visibility tools, offering consistent coverage across cloud and hybrid deployments, especially in situations where packet mirroring is too costly or technically complex to implement widely.
The solution provides three major advantages for security operations centers:
Complete network visibility captures traffic across virtual, containerized, and cloud-based workloads. It integrates deep packet inspection from traffic mirroring with bidirectional flow analysis, removing blind spots and ensuring full coverage of the attack surface.
Substantial cost reduction slashes SIEM and storage expenses by up to 90% through smart filtering, deduplication, and data enrichment, all while preserving critical security details.
Faster investigations cut detection and response times in half by supplying data in the standardized Zeek format, enriched with threat intelligence, community IDs, and cloud asset metadata. This allows analysts to pivot smoothly across different network evidence sources.
A unified data standard for hybrid environments
While many network detection and response (NDR) products handle cloud and on-premises data separately, Corelight Flow Monitoring normalizes diverse flow data, including AWS VPC Flow Logs, into a uniform Zeek format. This unified telemetry supports consistent detection rules, dashboards, and workflows across hybrid environments, boosting SOC efficiency and removing the need for custom integrations or specialized parsing.
Standardization allows security teams to apply the same queries, dashboards, and detection pipelines across their entire infrastructure. This halves investigation times and eliminates the manual effort of data re-engineering.
Focusing on the network
As organizations look for scalable, cost-efficient security solutions for the cloud, NDR is becoming a vital technology for delivering consistent visibility across hybrid ecosystems. Security leaders must balance two competing pressures: attackers are increasingly targeting cloud-native architectures with advanced lateral movement techniques, while teams must simultaneously rein in the rising costs of log ingestion and storage in SIEM and XDR platforms.
Christopher Kissel, Research Vice President for Security & Trust Products at IDC, noted that in the past, customers who enabled VPC Flow Logs rarely used this data in their SIEM or SOC workflows because of the overwhelming volume of low-fidelity logs. He stated that Corelight changes this dynamic by delivering high-fidelity, security-enriched data at a fraction of the volume and cost, making comprehensive AWS threat detection both practical and affordable.
(Source: HelpNet Security)
