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On October 20, 2025, the Zeek team hosted a full-day training at the NCAR facility in Boulder as part of the NSF Cybersecurity Summit. With 52 registrations and about 50 people showing up, the room was…
read more about Inside Zeek Training at NSF Cybersecurity SummitLast week, Zeek’s Technical Lead Christian Kreibich presented at hack.lu in Luxembourg, a conference that draws around 400 security practitioners spanning both offensive and defensive disciplines. Christian presenting at hack.lu 2025. His talk tackled a challenge…
read more about Integrating Zeek With Third-Party Applications (a hack.lu Recap)This summer we ran the Zeek Project Survey to get a clearer picture of how people use Zeek, what challenges they face, and where our team should focus our efforts next. One area we asked about was contribution:…
read more about 5 Ways to Contribute to the Zeek Project for the First TimeI’ve talked in a video and a blog post recently about the new Zeek storage framework. This blog post expands upon those previous posts to explain how to actually use the framework. It will do this…
read more about The Storage Framework in ActionUntil Zeek 7.2, storing data across a cluster could be tricky and inefficient. The new Storage Framework changes that. This post explains the old model, the new framework, and what’s coming next. The Old Model: Broker…
read more about Zeek’s Storage Framework ExplainedWith Zeek 8.0, we’re taking the first step toward a major shift in cluster communication. A new ZeroMQ backend is now available, making it simpler to run clusters and opening the door for more flexible backends…
read more about ZeroMQ Cluster Backend: Try It Out in Zeek 8We’re proud to announce the release of Zeek 8.0! This release introduces a range of technical innovations and culminates architectural improvements we’ve been working on since the release of Zeek 7 a year ago. Customizable Flow…
read more about Introducing Zeek 8This summer we asked Zeek users, contributors, and curious newcomers from around the world to take our 2025 Zeek Project Survey. Your feedback was honest, actionable and sometimes quite direct—which was exactly what we needed. Here…
read more about Zeek Project Survey Results: What We Heard and What’s NextZeek 8.0, our next long-term support (LTS) release, is just a few weeks away! Time for a quick recap of what the development team has been up to lately, and a look at our planned release…
read more about Zeek 8.0 Development UpdateOn June 23, we’re launching the Zeek Project Survey 2025 to understand how the community is currently using Zeek, what challenges you face, and where you want to see the project grow. This survey is a…
read more about Help Us Build the Best Zeek Yet: Community Survey Launching June 23