Suricata Newsletter for March 2025
Welcome
Hello and welcome to the first Suricata Newsletter! This newsletter will be published quarterly (March, June, September and December) and provide important updates and upcoming events. While you can always read the newsletter online, you can also subscribe via email over here: https://newsletter.suricata.io.
If you would like more frequent Suricata and OISF news please checkout the official Suricata blog, our forum or @Suricata over on Mastodon!
SuriCon
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SuriCon 2025 has been announced and will be occurring in Montreal Canada from November 19th to 21st 2025. For more information see https://suricon.net. We hope to see you there!
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The SuriCon 2025 Call for Talks is now open: https://suricon.net/call-for-talks/
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Looking to support Suricata? Sponsor SuriCon 2025 in Montreal here: https://suricon.net/sponsorships/. Thanks to OPNsense and AWS for already sponsoring!
Upcoming Events and Webinars
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Widening Our Lens on OSS, Security: People, Practice, and Partnership: The OISF President, Dr. Kelley Misata will be speaking at RSAC 2025! Keep your eyes out on the RSAC 2025 agenda for more details.
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Kelley was also recently interviewd by Josh Pressers on the Open Source Security Podcast. Listen here: https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/2025-03-oss_foundations_kelley_misata/
- We’re always looking for new faces to present: https://forum.suricata.io/t/suricata-webinars-call-for-speakers-share-your-ideas-with-us/5244
Release Announcements
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Suricata 7.0.9 was released on March 18 fixing a variety of bugs and security issues. Suricata 7.0.10 was also released a week later on March 25 to fix a regression in AF_PACKET. Sorry about that!
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The first Suricata 8.0 pre-release is expected in April! If you don’t already follow the development branch, this is your chance to test the next major release of Suricata and provide feedback on changes and new features. This release represents a major feature freeze but still gives us time to address issues or usability of new features. For the 8.0 roadmap here: https://roadmap.suricata.io/
Recent Webinars
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AI Analysis of Suricata Network Metadata and Alert Payloads with Peter Manev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuR2SRhMqQQ
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Suricata Filestore Improvements with Eric Leblond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkZB9u_Vhk
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Honeytoken IDS Rules and ET Info Rules for Anomaly Detection with Tony Robinson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRK5cgtIrrw
In The News
In The Community
- Suricata-Check, a new tool by Koen Teuwen to detect issues in Suricata rules, including syntax validity, interpretability, rule specificity, rule coverage, and efficiency. Check it out over at https://github.com/Koen1999/suricata-check!
In Development
- We’re working on the details to provide better support for Suricata as a Firewall. Follow along or provide input here: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/12167
Special Thanks
We extend a shoutout and thanks to Alice Akaki, who has done an awesome job contributing several new rule keywords during her Outreachy internship with us.
She presented her journey in a Suricata webinar that you can watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWHe4Dbq1V0