Welcome to the Zeek Newsletter.
In this Issue:
- TL;DR
- Development Updates
- Zeek in the Community
- Zeek in the Enterprise
- Friends of Zeek
- Upcoming Events
- Zeek Package Updates
- Get Involved
[TL;DR]
Zeek webinars continue. See Upcoming Events for details.
Registration is still open for the free two day Zeek workshop in Munich, Germany on 26-27 February 2025. Day 1 features technical presentations by the Zeek team and community. We’ll cover common use cases, recent releases, Zeek’s roadmap, and more. Day 2 offers optional, hands-on training by Zeek team members on Incident Response with Zeek and Writing Zeek Analyzers With Spicy. The schedule is now live:
https://zeek.org/workshop-muc-2025/schedule/
See this site for details:
https://zeek.org/workshop-muc-2025/
Development Updates
There are no updates since the last newsletter.
Zeek in the Community
Seth published a new version of Malcolm. Please see the project site for details:
Zeek in the Enterprise
The recording of the 8 January webinar, Designing Logs in the Real World by Steve Smoot, is live here:
https://youtube.com/live/dHthJNFt-NI
The recording of the 22 January Webinar, Pluggable Cluster Backends, by Arne Welzel, is live here:
https://youtube.com/live/FPU6clovKUI
Friends of Zeek
The Suricata project released version 7.0.8. Visit their site for details:
Upcoming Events
The next webinar is Wednesday 5 February at 1 pm ET. Tim Wojtulewicz will discuss the Zeek Telemetry Framework. Register for free here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nsq4w6d4Rl2liPmd1_W1fg
The next Training Group Call is 14 February at 12 noon ET. Here is the Zoom link:
<https://ESnet.zoom.us/j/6445948648>
Meeting ID: 644 594 8648
Passcode: Rockon!
The next Zeek Community Call is scheduled for 5 March at 1 pm ET. There is no need to register. Here is the Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/99882457331?pwd=WVZLRGtpbmx1V2FqSnlRT1FLRC9lQT09
Zeek Package Updates
Changes to packages are available via this search:
https://github.com/zeek/packages/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
The https://packages.zeek.org site reported the last 5 updates as of 2 June:
1/28/25, 4:14 AM shodan-zeek
1/27/25, 9:20 PM ja4
1/24/25, 3:25 PM zeek-spicy-wireguard
1/24/25, 3:23 PM zeek-spicy-ipsec
1/24/25, 3:21 PM zeek-spicy-openvpn
Get Involved
If you have any comments or material for the newsletter please email news@zeek.org or join the #news Slack channel.
Here is an invitation to the Slack channel:
https://join.slack.com/t/zeekorg/shared_invite/zt-12z1pjy93-zuVGuT1BF~yUJJvERxhp7g
Stay up to date by joining the Zeek Discourse:
Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
https://youtube.com/c/Zeekurity
Follow us on Mastodon:
https://infosec.exchange/@zeek
The old mailing list archives now redirect to this site:
https://community.zeek.org/archives/list/zeek@lists.zeek.org/
If you’d like to read the Leadership Team meeting notes, they are here:
https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/LT-Meeting-Notes
Follow us on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/zeekurity
To search LinkedIn for jobs mentioning Zeek skills, use this query:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=zeek
See you next time!