Large scale data breaches, advanced persistent threats, targeted attacks – the ability to proactively monitor a network has never been more important. Suricata, the leading open-source intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and network security monitoring engine, is pleased to offer two student scholarships for the upcoming training Threat Hunting with Suricata and tickets to SuriCon 2021.

To be eligible, you must currently be enrolled as a part-time or full-time student at a two or four year college (to include graduate school and/or doctoral programs), university or technical school. Scholarship does NOT cover travel expenses, you will be responsible for your own travel and visa requirements to get to Suricon 2021 in Boston, MA. Training begins on Monday October, 18 2021 at 0900 local time.

Important Dates:

Scholarship closes: August 20, 2021
Notifications to recipients: Expect notifications around August 27, 2021

Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. It is open source and owned by a community-run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). Suricata is developed by the OISF and its supporting vendors.

SuriCon is dedicated to providing a community-centric, safe and harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless and not limited to, of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.