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Uncovered: Real-Time Policy Violation Detection in a Zero Trust Environment

Jun 26, 2025 Peter Manev
Network Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, Network Security Monitoring, Clear NDR Enterprise, Zero Trust

Modern IT infrastructure, whether traditional or hybrid, faces persistent challenges: staff...

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Uncovered: Uncovering Risk Exposure from Publicly Accessible Unauthenticated TFTP

Jun 12, 2025 Peter Manev
Network Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, Network Security Monitoring, Clear NDR Enterprise

One of the significant advantages of Clear NDR’s multi-layered detection is its ability to identify...

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Uncovered: Uncovering Misconfigured Devices & Applications with Clear NDR

Jun 03, 2025 Peter Manev
Network Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, Network Security Monitoring, Clear NDR Enterprise

The example outlined in this blog article demonstrates Clear NDR’s value in delivering visibility...

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Uncovered: Detecting Misconfigured Web Server via Unstructured Hunting in Clear NDR

May 29, 2025 Peter Manev
Network Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, Network Security Monitoring, Clear NDR Enterprise

The following example is of an unstructured hunt technique—an investigation based on an idea or...

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Uncovered: Suspicious TLS Beaconing Activity Uncovered by Clear NDR AI

May 20, 2025 Peter Manev
Network Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, Network Security Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence, Clear NDR Enterprise, Beaconing

One of the key strengths of Clear NDRTM is its AI-based TLS beacon detection, which, when combined...

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Uncovered: Clear NDR Discovers Critical Non-Compliance at European Bank

Mar 27, 2025 Peter Manev
Network Detection and Response, Scirius Security Platform, Threat Hunting, Uncovered with SSP, Network Security Monitoring, ClearNDR

For many organizations considering Network Detection and Response (NDR), one of the most valuable...

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Dramatically Reduce MTTD & MTTR: 2 Clicks to Evidence with Clear NDR™

Mar 06, 2025 Peter Manev
Network Detection and Response, Uncovered with SSP, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, ClearNDR

This blog post details how Clear NDR drastically reduces Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time...

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Introducing U40: Powerful New Edition of Stamus Security Platform

Introducing U40: Powerful New Edition of Stamus Security Platform

Aug 01, 2024 Stamus Networks Team
Network Detection and Response, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform

Today, we are proud to announce the general availability of Update 40 (U40) - the latest release of...

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Detecting Fake CrowdStrike Domains Communications using Stamus Security Platform (SSP)

Detecting Fake CrowdStrike Domains using Stamus Security Platform

Jul 22, 2024 Stamus Networks Team
Network Detection and Response, Endpoint Detection, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, Threat intelligence

The recent global outage caused by an update to CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike's endpoint...

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The CrowdStrike Incident: Why a Multi-Layered Defense is Essential for Cyber Resilience

Jul 19, 2024 Stamus Networks Team
Network Detection and Response, Endpoint Detection, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform

The recent global outage caused by an update to CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike's endpoint...

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Threat Hunting with the Open Lateral Movement Ruleset for Suricata by Peter Manev

Threat Hunting with the Open Lateral Movement Ruleset for Suricata

Jul 04, 2024 Peter Manev
SELKS, Open Source, Threat Hunting, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS, Stamus Labs, ClearNDR

In November of 2022 we announced a Suricata ruleset specifically focused on detecting lateral...

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A Practicle Guide to Small Office / Home Office Network Visibility with SELKS: Part 1 - Equipment Selection

A Practical Guide to Small Office / Home Office Network Visibility with SELKS: Part 1 - Equipment Selection

Jul 21, 2023 Alexander Nedelchev
SELKS, Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS, Stamus Labs

Have you ever counted how many computer devices, smart IoT gadgets, TV’s, kitchen appliances,...

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Just Released: Suricata 7 by Andreas Herz

Just Released: Suricata 7

Jul 19, 2023 Andreas Herz
Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS

Yesterday (18-July-2023) the OISF announced the general availability of Suricata version 7. It’s...

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Use SELKS Kibana Dashboards to Solve the Unit 42 Wireshark Quiz by Rosita Kyuchukova

Use SELKS Kibana Dashboards to Solve the Unit 42 Wireshark Quiz

Apr 04, 2023 Rositsa Kyuchukova
SELKS, Open Source, Threat Hunting, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Labs, Kibana, Clear NDR Community

Recently, we released a blog post detailing how you can solve the Unit 42 Wireshark quiz for...

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The Hidden Value of Suricata Detection Events: NSM-Enriched IDS Alerts

Mar 30, 2023 Eric Leblond
Threat Hunting, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS

If you use Suricata, then you are familiar with the way Suricata generates detection events —...

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Stamus Networks | Spin up a Complete Suricata Network Security Platform in Under 2 Minutes

Spin up a Complete Suricata Network Security Platform in Under 2 Minutes

Oct 29, 2021 Alexander Nedelchev
SELKS, Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS, Stamus Labs

Believe it or not, you can launch a turnkey Suricata IDS/IPS/NSM installation – with as few as 4...

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IMAGE: Suricata Myth Busting: Alerts and NSM

Suricata Myth Busting: Alerts and NSM

Oct 14, 2021 Peter Manev
Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS

As I mentioned in the introductory article in this series (see here >>), Suricata produces not only...

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Stamus Networks | The Other Side of Suricata

The Other Side of Suricata

Oct 06, 2021 Peter Manev
Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS

You may be surprised to learn that Suricata produces not only IDS alerts but also produces logs of...

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Stamus Networks - More than just another NDR Vendor

Much more than just another NDR Vendor

Jul 01, 2021 Ken Gramley
Network Detection and Response, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, IDS-IPS

In cybersecurity as soon as you stand still, you’re falling behind. Change, whether it’s in the...

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Suricata: The First 12 Years of Innovation

Suricata: The First 12 Years of Innovation

Jun 07, 2021 Eric Leblond
Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS

Suricata, the open source intrusion detection (IDS), intrusion prevention (IPS), and network...

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IMAGE: Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Leverage Advanced Analytics

Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Leverage Advanced Analytics

Dec 15, 2020 Peter Manev
SELKS, Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, IDS-IPS

Background

As we have previously written, for all Suricata’s capabilities, building out an...

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IMAGE: Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Consolidate Alerts and Logs

Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Consolidate Alerts and Logs

Dec 07, 2020 Peter Manev
SELKS, Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, IDS-IPS

Background

As we have previously written, for all Suricata’s capabilities, building out an...

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Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Tuning the Sensors

Nov 30, 2020 Peter Manev
SELKS, Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, IDS-IPS

Background

As we have previously written, for all Suricata’s capabilities, building out an...

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Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Centralizing Sensor Management

Nov 23, 2020 Peter Manev
SELKS, Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, IDS-IPS

For all Suricata’s capabilities, building out an enterprise-scale deployment of Suricata with...

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IMAGE: Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Optimize Sensor Placement

Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Optimize Sensor Placement

Nov 17, 2020 Peter Manev
SELKS, Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, IDS-IPS

As we’ve written before, Suricata is a high-performance network threat detection, IDS, IPS and...

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Just Released: Suricata 6

Oct 08, 2020 Peter Manev
Open Source, Suricata, Network Security Monitoring, IDS-IPS

Exciting news - the OISF just announced that Suricata 6 is now available. This is the culmination...

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Did Network Detection and Response (NDR) kill Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)?

Is Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) dead in an age of Network Detection and Response (NDR)?

Aug 21, 2020 D. Mark Durrett
Network Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, Network Security Monitoring, Stamus Security Platform, IDS-IPS

Organizations seeking to proactively identify and respond to cyber threats in order to mitigate...

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