Workshop Schedule

Speakers and sessions are being announced now through late summer.

Presentation materials will be shared with attendees after the event. Talks will not be recorded.

Speakers (so far!)

Vern Paxson | 30 Years of Zeek and Script Optimization

Vern is co-founder and chief scientist at Corelight, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. A prolific and internationally-recognized researcher, Vern also leads the Networking and Security Group at the International Computer Science Institute and for decades held a position as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research interests include Internet measurement, high-performance network monitoring, detection algorithms, and combatting cybercrime, censorship, and abusive surveillance.

Christian Kreibich | Log Schema in Zeek

Christian is the Technical Lead of the Zeek project and an engineer at Corelight. He previously headed the networking group at Lastline, and prior to that was a staff research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Open Information Security Foundation, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge’s Systems Research Group.

Aashish Sharma | Topic TBD

Aashish Sharma is a member of the Cyber Security Team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has worked for the past fifteen years. With nearly 23 years of experience in security and incident response, his work focuses on intrusion detection and incident response. He is a member of the Zeek Leadership Team and has published approximately 19 papers in venues including USENIX and ACM.

Fatema Bannat Wala | Topic TBD

Fatema Bannat Wala is a Security Engineer at ESnet/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she focuses on network traffic monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response. She holds CISSP certification alongside multiple GIAC certifications and serves on the SANS/GIAC Advisory Board. Fatema is a member of the Zeek Leadership Team and a frequent speaker at FIRST events and the Trusted CI NSF Cybersecurity Summit.

Aaron J. Scantlin | Topic TBD

Aaron is the resident Zeek Geek at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, where — together with ESnet and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab — he frequently discusses cluster management, network IOC detection, and more with his peers. With over 10 years in infosec, Aaron has given talks all over the world on various aspects of computer security.