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The Zeek Network Security Monitor
A powerful framework for network analysis and security monitoring.
Key Features - Documentation - Getting Started - Development - License
Key Features
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Adaptable and Flexible Zeek's domain-specific scripting language enables site-specific monitoring policies and means that it is not restricted to any particular detection approach.
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In-depth Analysis Zeek comes with analyzers for many protocols, enabling high-level semantic analysis at the application layer.
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Efficient Zeek targets high-performance networks and is used operationally at a variety of large sites.
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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. You can find downloads for stable relases, tutorials on getting Zeek set up, and many other useful resources there. You can also find release notes for the current version in NEWS, and CHANGES has the complete history of changes
To work on the development branch of Zeek, clone the master git repository.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/zeek/zeek
Then, with its dependencies installed, build and install.
./configure && make && sudo make install
Development
Zeek was originally developed by Vern Paxson. Robin Sommer now leads the project, jointly with a core team of researchers and developers at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA; and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Zeek is developed on GitHub and we welcome contributions. Working on an open-source project like Zeek can be an incredibly rewarding experience. We actively collect feature requests and issues on GitHub here. If you're looking for a good first issue you might find these useful.
More information on Zeek's development can be found here, and information about its community and mailing lists (which are fairly active) can be found here.
License
Zeek comes with a BSD license, allowing for free use with virtually no restrictions. You can read it here.