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+=================================
+The Zeek Network Security Monitor
+=================================
+
+Zeek is a powerful framework for network analysis and security
+monitoring.
+
+Key Features
+============
+
+*   **Adaptable & Flexible**
+    Zeek's domain specific scripting language enables site-specific
+    monitoring policies and means that it is not restricted to any 
+    particular detection approach.
+
+*   **In-depth Analysis**
+    Zeek ships with analyzers for many protocols, enabling
+    high-level semantic analysis at the application layer.
+
+*   **Efficient**
+    Zeek targets high-performance networks and is used operationally
+    at a variety of large sites.
+
+*   **Highly Stateful**
+    Zeek keeps extensive application-layer state about the network
+    it monitors and provides a high-level archive of a network's 
+    activity.
+    
+Getting Started
+===============
+
+The best place to find information about getting started with Zeek
+is our website [1]. You can find downloads for stable releases, 
+tutorials on getting Zeek set up, and many other useful resources 
+there. You can also find release notes for the current version and a
+complete history of changes in NEWS, and CHANGES respectively.
+
+To work on the development branch of Zeek, clone the master git 
+repository.
+
+> git clone --recursive https://github.com/zeek/zeek
+
+With its dependencies [2] installed, build and install.
+
+> ./configure && make && sudo make install
+
+Write your first Zeek script.
+
+```
+# hello.zeek
+
+event zeek_init
+  {
+  print "Hello World!";
+  }
+```
+
+And run it.
+
+> zeek hello.zeek
+
+Development
+===========
+
+Zeek is developed on GitHub by its community. Today, as a result of 
+countless contributions, it is is used operationally around the world
+by major companies and educational and scientific institutions alike
+for securing their cyber infrastructure. We welcome contributions. 
+Working on an open source project like Zeek can be an incredibly 
+rewarding experience and, packet by packet, makes the internet a 
+little safer.
+
+If you're interested in getting involved, we actively collect feature
+requests and issues on GitHub. For learning more about the Zeek
+scripting language, https://try.zeek.org is a great resource.
+
+More information on Zeek's development can be found here [3], and 
+information about its community and mailing lists (which are fairly 
+active) can be found here [4].
+
+
+
+
+[1] https://www.zeek.org
+[2] https://docs.zeek.org/en/stable/install/install.html
+[3] https://www.zeek.org/development/index.html
+[4] https://www.zeek.org/community/index.html
+
+
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   approach.
 
 * __In-depth Analysis__
-	Zeek comes with analyzers for many protocols, enabling high-level semantic 
+	Zeek ships with analyzers for many protocols, enabling high-level semantic 
   analysis at the application layer.
 	
 * __Efficient__
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ And run it.
 Development
 -----------
 
-Zeek is developed on GitHub by its community. Today, as a result countless 
+Zeek is developed on GitHub by its community. Today, as a of result countless 
 contributions, it is is used operationally around the world by major companies 
 and educational and scientific institutions alike for securing their cyber 
 infrastructure. We welcome contributions. Working on an open source project