Zeekurity Zen Zeries

Zeekurity Zen Zeries

Zeek is my favorite network security monitoring platform, and I’ve used it throughout my career.  It generates rich network metadata that’s incredibly valuable for incident response, forensics, and general troubleshooting. For most people, the main challenge with using Zeek is in setting it up.  While today 

How to Choose the Right EPP / EDR Solution

How to Choose the Right EPP / EDR Solution

Introduction Like most cybersecurity professionals, you’re looking for an EPP that protects against current and evolving threats, is easy to deploy and manage, and is ultimately invisible to end-users.  Today, there are dozens of these platforms available, and choosing the right one for your business is 

Zeekurity Zen – Part III: How to Send Zeek Logs to Splunk

Zeekurity Zen – Part III: How to Send Zeek Logs to Splunk

This is part of the Zeekurity Zen Zeries on building a Zeek (formerly Bro) network sensor. Overview In our Zeek journey thus far, we’ve: Set up Zeek to monitor some network traffic. Used Zeek Package Manager to install packages. Now we’ll send our Zeek logs 

Zeekurity Zen – Part I: How to Install Zeek on Ubuntu

Zeekurity Zen – Part I: How to Install Zeek on Ubuntu

This is part of the Zeekurity Zen Zeries on building a Zeek (formerly Bro) network sensor. Overview This guide assumes you’ll be installing Zeek on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.  However, the guide should work for any reasonably recent versions of Ubuntu. Kicking things off, we’ll optimize Ubuntu to 

OSM: Open Security Monitoring

OSM: Open Security Monitoring

Introduction I’ve spent most of my career defending environments of all sizes.  What I’ve found is that the job of a defender is much less flashier and thankless as compared to an “ethical hacker.”  While there are volumes of articles, guides, and talks on penetration