DevConf.CZ 2025

Suricata in Action: A Practical Workshop on Network Threat Detection
2025-06-14 , A218 (capacity 20)

This session offers a practical introduction to Suricata, an open-source Network Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention System, focusing on its role in detecting and mitigating network threats. Through a series of practical exercises, participants will gain insights into the fundamentals of network security and how Suricata can be used to secure the networks.

Attendees will face a series of exercises that enable them to evaluate network traffic and identify threats and anomalies. The workshop gives an opportunity to explore Suricata's features to enhance network security.


What level of experience should the audience have to best understand your session?

Beginner - no experience needed

Lukáš Šišmiš is a core team member of the open-source Suricata IDS project where he focuses on the acceleration of network packet processing through the optimized datapath library - DPDK. He is also a Ph.D. student at BUT FIT and a researcher at Cesnet.