Overview

The Bro team and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab are pleased to announce a further "Bro Workshop", a 2.5-day Bro training event that will take place in Berkeley, CA, on October 13-15, 2009.

The workshop is primarily targeted at site security personnel wishing to learn more about how Bro works, how to use its scripting language and how to generally customize the system based on a site's local policy.

Similar to previous workshops, the agenda will be an informal mix of tutorial-style presentations and hands-on lab sessions. No prior knowledge about using Bro is assumed though attendees should be familiar with Unix shell usage as well as with typical networking tools like tcpdump and Wireshark.

All participants are expected to bring a Unix-based (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD) laptop with a working Bro configuration. For the workshop, we'll be using a pre-release version of 1.5, which you can download here. Please make sure this version compiles without problems on your laptop. In addition to that, we will provide sample trace files to work with.

This workshop will again be hosted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and it will be located at the Hotel Durant in Berkeley. We will soon provide a web site with more detailed registration and location information. To facilitate a productive lab environment, the number of attendees will be limited to 30 people. A registration fee of $125 will be charged.

Registration

The registration for the workshop is no longer possible.

Agenda

Here's the final agenda.

Location

The workshop will be located in Berkeley at the Hotel Durant on 2600 Durant Ave, right off the campus.

Hotels

Hotel Durant 2600 Durant Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704 510-845-8981 800-238-7268 Note: Ask for Berkeley Lab rate!
The French Hotel 1538 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94709 510-548-9930
Rose Garden Inn 2740 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705 510-549-2145 800-992-9005 Walking distance to campus; complimentary shuttle to shuttle bus service.
Downtown Berkeley Inn 2001 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94704 510-843-4043

Contact

If you have any further questions about the workshop, feel free to send a mail to Robin Sommer.