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AgendaEvent Location: Discovery Hall at PNNL650 Horn Rapids RoadRichland, WA 99354Format: In-person (registered attendees only); remote dial-in not available Course SyllabusInstructor: Patrick KelleyCourse Web: https://www.criticalpathsecurity.comCourse DescriptionZeek is a great open-source tool that allows you to monitor your network and analyze events within it. Thiscourse will teach you about this tool, and how to configure and use it within your network to suit your needs.More Information

On Wednesday, April 6th we spoke at the Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives (AREA) conference to the IT leadership in attendance. Our topic was how to leverage Zeek to prevent a catastrophic event. In the talk we started with a bit of history and how malware, ransomware, and threat actors have evolved over the years; and how their tactics have transformed and become all but invisible to the naked eye. We also spoke about how the problems of our audience were vastly different from most other companies in that they were both supporting the Nation's Critical Infrastructure as well as they are also supporting technologies in their SCADA systems, of which many were developed with a 20-year lifecycle.   Today threats and threat actors are changing their mode of operations by the minute and many of today's tools cannot or should not be used on the IC networks. By…