Corelight, a provider of a network visibility solution for cybersecurity, has landed an additional $25m in funding.
The Series B financing, which was led by General Catalyst, will be used to accelerate investments in product development, research, sales, and marketing. The capital will also be used to continue to expand internationally with increased investment in global sales infrastructure and build out additional strategic partner alliances domestically and abroad.
Corelight was founded by chief Scientist Dr. Vern Paxson, CTO Dr. Robin Sommer and chief evangelist Seth Hall to deliver network visibility solutions for cybersecurity built on an open source framework called Bro.
Paxson began developing Bro in 1995 when he was working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Corelight has merged the power of Bro with a suite of enterprise features, which make Bro ‘dramatically easier’ to deploy in enterprise environments, like an intuitive management UI, native NIC shunting, sensor health metrics, and automated data export to Splunk, Elastic, Kafka, Syslog, S3, and more, according to the company.
“The question today isn’t if the bad guys have access to your network – they do – but instead, what they’ve done once they’ve gotten in,” said Steve Herrod, managing director at General Catalyst, and former CTO of VMware.
“Corelight helps security professionals get to breach impact and remediation faster. Their network intelligence approach is a strong complement to GC’s security portfolio and is already demonstrating exceptional product market fit. We’re privileged to be partnering with them today.”
Along with the funding, the company has also bought in cybersecurity veteran Richard Bejtlich as Principal Security Strategist. Bejtlich was previously Mandiant’s chief security officer when FireEye acquired Mandiant in 2013. Prior to Mandiant, he worked as director of incident response at General Electric, where he built and led the 40-member GE Computer Incident Response Team (GE-CIRT).
Bejtlich began his digital security career as a military intelligence officer in 1997 at the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), and Air Intelligence Agency (AIA).
“After years of protecting networks with Bro, joining the Corelight team feels like the natural next step,” he added. “Other tools offer glimpses of network visibility, but Bro is like the Hubble telescope. I look forward to working with my new team – many of whom I consider security mentors – to help all organizations harness the power of Bro and Corelight to defend their networks.
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