2025-10-22 –, Europe
History of Suricata Lua support. How it was the greatest thing ever and was not used.
An history of Suricata Lua support. How it was the greatest thing ever for detection and custom output but did end up never used.
We will also see how it was also an open door on the system running Suricata.
And finally, will the new implementation fix the issue ?
Éric Leblond is the co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Stamus Networks and a member of the board of directors at Open Network Security Foundation (OISF). Éric has more than 15 years of experience as co-founder and technologist of cybersecurity software companies and is an active member of the security and open-source communities.
He has worked on the development of Suricata – the open-source network threat detection engine – since 2009 and is part of the Netfilter Core team, responsible for the Linux kernel's firewall layer. Eric is also the lead developer of the Suricata Language Server, a real-time syntax checking and autocomplete app for Suricata rule writers.
Eric is a well-respected expert and speaker on network security.