INDIANAPOLIS and PARIS – November 5, 2024 – Stamus Networks, a global provider of high-performance network-based threat detection and response (NDR) systems, today announced that Co-Founders Éric Leblond (chief technology officer) and Peter Manev (chief strategy officer) will deliver in-depth pre-conference training on Suricata, the widely-deployed open-source intrusion detection and network security monitoring engine, at SuriCon2024. Leblond and Manev will also join their Stamus Networks colleagues in presenting at the conference in Madrid later this month.
Both Leblond and Manev are experts in the field of open-source security development and are actively involved with the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), the governing body of Suricata.
Pre-Conference Training Details
Session Title: SuriCon2024 Intrusion Analysis & Threat Hunting
Session Description: Manev will lead this two-day user training designed to provide attendees with the knowledge and skills necessary to discover new threats on the network and build an effective threat hunting program.
Date: Nov. 11-12, 2024
Location: Hotel Riu Plaza España
Session Title: SuriCon2024 Advanced Deployment & Configuration
Session Description: Led by Leblond, this two-day user training focuses on helping attendees successfully design, deploy, implement, optimize, and hunt with their high-performance Suricata deployment.
Date: Nov. 11-12, 2024
Location: Hotel Riu Plaza España
Conference Session Details
Session Title: Suricata Extreme Performance Tuning – SEPTun Mark III
Speakers: Manev and Andreas Herz, software developer at Stamus Networks
Session Description: This talk will be a summary of the details in the SEPTun Mark III and associated findings, including configuration recommendations and performance processing guidelines.
Date/Time: Nov. 14, 2024 from 3:15-4 p.m. CET
Session Title: Ridiculously Rich SMB Data Provided by Suricata
Speaker: Markus Kont, threat researcher and software engineer at Stamus Networks
Session Description: A deep dive on using Jupyter Notebooks to present the available fields in EVE SMB protocols, along with observations about the properties of these fields. Kont will also provide samples of actual SMB event flows and present opportunities for traffic profiling and anomaly detection, such as extracting useful features from SMB traffic and performing simple graph analytics.
Date/Time: Nov. 14, 2024 from 4:15-5 p.m. CET
Session Title: The Data Set that Shouts in Whispers to Analysts
Speaker: Eric Leblond
Session Description: Leblond will introduce datajson, a new dataset type where the user can embed context in the indicators of compromise (IoC) definition and add this context to the intrusion detection system (IDS) events. He will also showcase usage of the feature with a newly registered domain list and other massive datasets.
Date/Time: Nov. 15, 2024 from 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. CET
To find out more about these sessions, visit our latest blog post, or to meet with Leblond or Manev at this event, please reach out to: stamus@threeringsinc.com. To learn more about Stamus Networks, visit: www.stamus-networks.com.
About Stamus Networks
Stamus Networks believes in a world where defenders are heroes, and a future where those they protect remain safe. As organizations face threats from well-funded adversaries, we relentlessly pursue solutions that make the defender's job easier and more impactful. The global leader in Suricata-based network security solutions, Stamus Networks helps enterprise security teams know more, respond sooner, and mitigate their risk with insights gathered from cloud and on-premise network activity. Our Stamus Security Platform combines the best of intrusion detection (IDS), network security monitoring (NSM), and network detection and response (NDR) systems into a single solution that exposes serious and imminent threats to critical assets and empowers rapid response. For more information visit: stamus-networks.com.
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