Case Study: Education First reduces incident response time with Corelight

Security team sees 95% reduction in incident response time with Corelight’s network visibility

Education First, a privately held global education services company with more than 500 offices and schools worldwide, needed better network visibility to support incident response across nine sites in the Americas and the EU. The security team was struggling with broken or missing data, scattered logs, and limited insight from existing tools like firewalls, AV, and SIEM, which made it difficult to investigate alerts and answer critical network questions. Corelight’s network security monitoring sensors were chosen to provide the needed real-time, detailed visibility.

Corelight delivered rich, pivotable network evidence through its Zeek-based sensors and central log exports, giving Education First a single source of truth for traffic analysis and alert investigation. As a result, incident response time dropped from about 3 hours to under 10 minutes, a 95% reduction, while the team also gained stronger threat hunting, compliance monitoring, and the ability to track lateral movement more effectively.

Education First

Ken Hanson

Senior Security Engineer