Schedule

Workshop Schedule

 

Day 1 — Wednesday, February 26, 2025

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome and Logistics
09:10 – 09:30 Building up Security Capabilities for a University 

Thomas Schreck (Hochschule München)

09:30 – 10:00 The State of Zeek  

Christian Kreibich (Zeek LT / Corelight)

10:00 – 10:30 Operationalizing Zeek Deployments 

Aashish Sharma (Zeek LT / Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Navigating the Noise: A Journey with Zeek’s ICS/OT Logs 

Vince Stoffer (Corelight)

11:30 – 12:00 Meet “Spicy”: *You* can write a protocol parser now 

Robin Sommer (Zeek LT / Corelight)

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:30 Inside the Zeek Project: Organization, Governance & Community 

Johanna Amann (Zeek LT Chair / Corelight)

13:30 – 14:00 Developing Zeek scripts with style ✨ 

Benjamin Bannier (Corelight)

14:00 – 14:30 ZeekJS: Extending Zeek through JavaScript 

Arne Welzel (Corelight)

14:30 – 15:00 Protocol Identification in Zeek 

Jan Grashöfer (Corelight)

15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:00 Lightning Talks 

Moderator: Johanna Amann

 

16:00 – 16:30 Zeek Roadmap 

Christian Kreibich (Zeek LT / Corelight)

16:30 – 17:00 Q&A: Ask anything!

 

Day 2 — Thursday, February 27, 2025

09:00-12:30 Training: Incident Response with Zeek (Aashish Sharma, LBNL)
Speaker:

Aashish Sharma is a member of the cyber security team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is also a member of the Zeek Leadership Team.

12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Training: Writing Protocol Analyzers with Spicy (Benjamin Bannier, Corelight)

This training is intended to build and enhance your understanding and proficiency in utilizing the Spicy parser generator. The material targets primarily a technical audience, but is open to anyone.

Topics:

  • Basics of programming and parsing with Spicy
  • Working with the Spicy documentation
  • Using Spicy to create Zeek analyzers

Prerequisites:

  • Familiarity with a programming/scripting language
  • Basic familiarity with Zeek and its event model.

Speaker:

Benjamin Bannier works as a Senior Open Source Developer at Corelight where he spends most of his time maintaining and evolving Spicy and its integration into the Zeek ecosystem. He previously worked on containerization and workload orchestration with Apache Mesos, and distributed columnar data stores. He holds a PhD in Physics from Stony Brook University.