by The Zeek Project | Oct 31, 2025 | community, Workshop, Zeek
Last 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. His talk tackled a challenge we hear about constantly from power...
by Christian Kreibich | Aug 22, 2025 | 8.0, development, release, Spicy, Zeek
We’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 Tuples For the first time ever, it’s now...
by Michelle Pathe | Jun 17, 2025 | community, survey, Zeek
On 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 key part of our mission: to develop Zeek in a way that enables the...
by Evan Typanski | Jun 3, 2025 | performance, Protocol Parsing, Spicy, Zeek
Within Zeek, there are two separate parser generators: Binpac (the old one) and Spicy (the new one). Both allow users to write protocol parsers by declaring what the protocol looks like rather than writing C++ code to parse it. Binpac parsers are difficult to write....
by Christian Kreibich | May 13, 2025 | 7.2, development, release, Spicy, Zeek
The Zeek team is proud to announce Zeek 7.2! Work on this release began in December 2024 and includes some 1,200 commits, 330 merged pull requests, and 130 closed issues. The 7.2 release brings important new features, matures Zeek’s ability to run on alternative...
by Evan Typanski | Jan 28, 2025 | Protocol Parsing, Spicy, Zeek
In our last post, we left off with a functional but incomplete analyzer for Redis. It analyzed RESP (Redis Serialization Protocol) traffic, crudely created “command” objects, then sent that off into Zeek script in events in order to log it. It created something nice,...
RSS - Posts