[Zeek] Now Available - Zeek Monthly Newsletter, Issue 1 - January 2020

Tue Jan 14 13:07:33 PST 2020

===Welcome to the Zeek Monthly Newsletter, Issue 1 covers December 2019 as
well as upcoming events.===

Link to downloadable PDF - http://bit.ly/ZeekMonthlyNews_Issue1_Jan2020
Link to blog post -
https://blog.zeek.org/2020/01/zeek-monthly-newsletter-issue-1-january.html

===In this Issue:===

* General Community News/Updates
* Development Updates
* Zeek In the News
* Interviews
* Threat of the Month
* Upcoming Events
* Contribution/Contributor of the Month
* Zeek Related Issues
* Publication Schedule
* Get Involved

===General Community News/Updates===

We’re very excited to publish this first Zeek newsletter.  This newsletter
will be published monthly on the first full week of each month. The
publication schedule can be found below

In this issue you’ll notice some sections will only have a description as
we are actively looking for content and contributors. Please consider
becoming an editor.  If you are interested please email news at zeek.org

===Development Updates===

Zeek 3.0.1 release available - This is a bug-fix release that most notably
addresses a JSON logging performance regression in 3.0.0, but also fixes
other minor bugs.

http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/pipermail/zeek/2019-December/014845.html

===Zeek in the News===

This section will be for articles published outside of the Zeek Blog.  If
you come across articles referencing Zeek in your news feed and you’d like
us to share it in the newsletter, please send the link to news at zeek.org or
add it to the Issue 2 working document at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1spPRm7fYDIeRgqiQ5_IM53q6kcBNjPaLSuY5tIfASx8/edit

===Interviews with LT/Core Contributors/Other===

What community member or contributor would you like to know more about?  If
you have suggestions please email us at news at zeek.org. Since there wasn’t
any from December and this is our first newsletter below are the links to a
couple from earlier in 2019.

* Robin Sommer -
https://blog.zeek.org/2019/04/people-of-zeek-interview-series-robin.html
* Zeke Medley -
https://blog.zeek.org/2019/06/people-of-zeek-interview-series.html
* Fatema Bannat Wala -
https://blog.zeek.org/2019/07/people-of-zeek-interview-series.html

===Threat of the Month===

Do you have a threat you’d like to share with the community and how using
Zeek in your security stack helped you identify that threat? Please email
news at zeek.org and we’ll work with you to get it written up and shared in
the next newsletter.

===Upcoming Events===

If you or your organization would like to host a Zeek event or if you know
of any public Zeek related workshops, please send us the links so that we
can include those in the newsletter and on the website.

* ASK THE ZEEKSPERTS

Ask the Zeeksperts  is a one hour bi-weekly call that is hosted by various
“Zeeksperts” in the community.  This is where you can drop by and ask your
Zeek Related questions. The webinars are free to attend, but registration
is required.

* 16 January 2020 - 12:30pm PT - Hosted by Seth Hall
Registration Link - http://bit.ly/ATZ_16Jan2020

* 30 January 2020 - 12:30pm PT - Host TBD
Registration Link - http://bit.ly/ATZ_30Jan2020

* HOW TO USE A RASPBERRY PI AS A NETWORK SENSOR - WEBINAR

* 16 January 2020 - 2:00PM EST

This webinar is being hosted by Black Hills Information Security and
presented by Bill Sterns, from Active Countermeasures.

This webcast will cover running a network sensor using a Raspberry Pi, a
miniature single-board computer that runs most anything you can run under
Linux.

Bill will show you how to install and use the Zeek IDS and cover the
performance aspects you'll need to know. Setting up IDSs that cost about
the same as a bike means you can monitor far more network segments
simultaneously, and hide them behind a power brick if you have to.

Register for this webinar at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2540509980495221261

* ZEEK DAYS WORKSHOPS

* 18 February 2020 - Portland OR

This is a one day Zeek workshop hosted by Portland State University and
sponsored by Corelight, Inc.

This workshop is free to attend by registration is required.

In this workshop we'll introduce you to Zeek, best practice around
deploying and running Zeek then we'll take a deeper look at the Zeek logs
and how to use the data derived from the Zeek logs.

And for those who want to know more and become an active contributor and
participant in the Zeek community we'll get you started.

Registration and more information -
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zeek-days-workshop-portland-or-tickets-89780043527

===Contribution/Contributor of the Month===

Check out packages.zeek.com.  Every month we’ll pick a package to
highlight.  Consider contributing a package during January 2020, so we can
highlight your contribution on the Zeek Blog and in the February 2020 Zeek
Newsletter.

If you’d like to review the packages and interview the contributors, please
email news at zeek.org.

===Zeek-related Jobs===

If you or someone you know have any Zeek related job postings you’d like us
to share in the monthly newsletter please send links to news at zeek.org.

===Publication Schedule===

Issue 1 - January 2020 (Covers December 2019) - 14 January 2020
Issue 2 - February 2020 (Covers January 2020) - 3 February 2020
Issue 3 - March 2020 (Covers February 2020) - 2 March 2020
Issue 4 - April 2020 (Covers March 2020) - 6 April 2020
Issue 5 - May 2020 (Covers April 2020) - 4 May 2020
Issue 6 - June 2020 (Covers May 2020) - 1 June 2020
Issue 7 - July 2020 (Covers June 2020) - 6 July 2020
Issue 8 - August 2020 (Covers July 2020) - 3 August 2020
Issue 9 - September 2020 (Covers August 2020) - 7 September 2020
Issue 10 - Special Issue 1 - September 2020 (Covers ZeekWeek 2020) - 21
September 2020
Issue 11 - October 2020 (Covers September 2020) - 5 October 2020
Issue 12 - November 2020 (Covers October 2020) - 2 November 2020
Issue 13 - December 2020 (Covers November 2020)  - 7 December 2020
Issue 14 - Special Issue 2 - (Year End Review) - 21 December 2020

===Get Involved===

If you are interested in getting involved with the Zeek Newsletter, please
email news at zeek.org.
More information about the newsletter can be found at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jo6EBdExKgiYgi6MKIoUougJRJevjuV4wv58fmP6bPw/edit#
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