ZeekWeek - October 2021
At ZeekWeek 2021, we presented how VAST can become a Zeek logger node and transparently receive logs from a Zeek cluster in an optimal fashion. To this end, we wrote a Broker plugin to acquire the binary log data. We then reverse-engineered the binary message format of batched logs, which allowed us to convert them directly into VAST's data plane using Apache Arrow.
(This is a retrospective release to fill in a gap, and not in order of the usual releases.)