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Peter Manev

Peter Manev
Peter Manev is the co-founder and chief strategy officer (CSO) at Stamus Networks. He is a member of the executive team at Open Network Security Foundation (OISF). Peter has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, including enterprise-level IT security practice. He is a passionate user, developer, and explorer of innovative open-source security software, and he is responsible for training as well as quality assurance and testing on the development team of Suricata – the open-source threat detection engine. Peter is a regular speaker and educator on open-source security, threat hunting, and network security at conferences and live-fire cyber exercises, such as Crossed Swords, DeepSec, Troopers, DefCon, RSA, Suricon, SharkFest, and others. Peter resides in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Recent Posts

5 Reasons to Double Down on Network Security in 2025

NOTE: The following article was originally published 02 December 2024 on Help Net Security 

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: Lateral Active Exploits

In this series of articles, we explore a set of use cases that we have encountered in real-world...

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: DarkGate Malware as a Service (MaaS)

In this series of articles, we explore a set of use cases that we have encountered in real-world...

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: High Entropy Domain Connections

In this series of articles, we explore a set of use cases that we have encountered in real-world...

SELKS 10: The Next Big Leap for Open-Source Network Security

Stamus Networks is pleased to announce the release and availability of SELKS 10, the newest version...

SELKS: 10 Years of Open-Source Network Defense

This month, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of SELKS, Stamus Networks’ open-source Suricata-based...

Suricata Threat Hunting Fundamentals

Before beginning any sort of threat hunt, it is important to consider the tools you are using. This...

Threat Hunting with Suricata and Newly-Registered Domain Threat Intel (Open NRD)

In aprevious blog post, we announced the release of Open NRD from Stamus Networks - a set of threat...

Introducing Open NRD: Newly Registered Domain Threat Intel Feeds for Suricata

This article describes the details of the new Open NRD threat intelligence feeds provided by Stamus...

Malware PCAP Analysis Made Easy Part 4

In aprevious blog post, we compiled a number of useful JQ command routines for fast malware PCAP...

Malware PCAP Analysis Made Easy Part 2

In aprevious blog post, we compiled a number of useful JQ command routines for fast malware PCAP...

Malware PCAP Analysis Made Easy

When a threat researcher is investigating malware behavior and traces on the network, they need a...

Threat Hunting for Unknown Actors & Threats using NRD and Sightings

This week’s guided threat hunting blog focuses on hunting for high-entropy NRD (newly registered...

Incorporating Newly Registered Domains (Open NRD) into Stamus Security Platform Workflow

Every day, new Internet domains are registered through the Domain Name System (DNS) as a natural...

Stop the leak! Detecting ChatGPT used as a channel for data exfiltration

In a recent conversation, one of our customers shared their concerns about the use of ChatGPT in...

Hunting for Suspicious DNS Use During Policy Verification

This week’s guided threat hunting blog focuses on verifying a policy enforcement of domain...

Hunting for Lateral Executable Transfers

It is not uncommon to see executable file transfers within an organization. However, it is...

Hunting for Punycode Domain Phishing

Punycode domains have traditionally been used by malware actors in phishing campaigns. These...

NEW! Open Ruleset for Detecting Lateral Movement in Windows Environments with Suricata

Today, we’re announcing a new open-source contribution from Stamus Networks - a Suricata ruleset...

Hunting for Suspicious DNS Requests with Long Domain Extensions

When you see a domain request from a user/client to a non-local or otherwise unfamiliar or...

Hunting for Suspicious DNS Requests with Short Domain Extensions

Non-local domain requests from the user/client network could signal trouble for an organization....

Hunting for the use of DNS Over HTTPS

DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is a network protocol used to protect the data and privacy of users by...

Hunting for Plain Text Executables with Stamus Security Platform

Plain text executables (such as those downloaded from a PowerShell user agent) are often seen on...

Hunting for Internal Use of Dynamic DNS with Stamus Security Platform

This week in our series on guided threat hunting, we are focusing on locating internal use of...

Hunting for Use of Foreign Domain Infrastructure with Stamus Security Platform

This week’s guided threat hunting blog focuses on hunting for foreign domain infrastructure usage...

Hunting for Unauthorized Activity from Critical Infrastructure

This week’s guided threat hunting blog focuses on hunting for Let’s encrypt certificates that were...

Hunting for Unauthorized Admin User Activity with Stamus Security Platform

In this week’s guided threat hunting blog, we will focus on hunting for Let’s Encrypt certificates...

Hunting for Rogue Proxy Servers

In this week’s guided threat hunting blog, we focus on using Stamus Security Platform to identify...

Hunting for Phishing Activity with Stamus Security Platform

In this week’s guided threat hunting blog, we focus on using Stamus Security Platform to uncover...

Hunting for Unauthorized FTP Usage

This week’s guided threat hunting blog focuses on a specific policy violation - the use of...

Hunting for File Sharing Service Policy Violations

This week’s guided threat hunting blog focuses on policy violations; specifically, violations...

Hunting for Malware Masquerading as an Image File

For week 2 of our series on guided threat hunting, we will be reviewing a hunting technique to...

After the Hunt

So, what’s next? You’ve had a successful hunt, uncovered some type of threat or anomalous behavior...

Hunting For Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP)

In addition to deploying advanced detection technologies, many security teams make threat hunting...

Introduction to Guided Threat Hunting

Stamus Security Platform is loaded with features that help security teams leverage network traffic...

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: Raiz0WorM

In this series of articles we share hands-on experience from active hunts in the real world. We...

Stamus Networks at RSA San Francisco 2022

RSA Conference San Francisco is back in June 2022 and we are excited to once again be a part of one...

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: Spyware Missed by EDR

In this series of articles, we explore a set of use cases that we have encountered in real-world...

Intrusion Analysis and Threat Hunting with Open Source Tools @ FloCon 2022

In its early years, FloCon was an academic conference focused exclusively on network flow data but...

Troopers Training: Intrusion Analysis and Threat Hunting with Open Source Tools

The importance of having a strong security team has been growing in recent years, and many...

The Art of Suricata QA GitLab Automation @ Suricon

I’m pleased to partner with the OISF QA Engineer and Automator - Corey Thomas for this year’s...

Efficient Suricata: Migrating from Millions of Events to Manageable Insights @ Suricon

I’m pleased to partner with my colleague and OISF Board Member - Eric Leblond for this year’s...

The Other Side of Suricata

You may be surprised to learn that Suricata produces not only IDS alerts but also produces logs of...

Advanced Deployment & Configuration with Suricata @ Suricon

I’m pleased to partner with my colleague and OISF Board Member - Eric Leblond. Together, we want to...

Stamus Networks at Sharkfest US 2021

SharkFest is an “annual educational conference focused on sharing knowledge, experience and best...

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: Danger in the Datacenter

When the blue team needs to mount a network defense, they must answer some very common questions:

  • ...

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: User Agents Tell the Story

Stamus Security Platform (SSP) helps bank identify threat to its accounting network

With the help...

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: Shadow IT

In this series of articles, we explore a set of use cases that we have encountered in real-world...

Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Leverage Advanced Analytics

Background

As we have previously written, for all Suricata’s capabilities, building out an...

Stamus ND/NDR is Armed to Detect Stolen FireEye Red Team Tools

Yesterday, FireEye/Mandiant announced that a “highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary stole...

Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Consolidate Alerts and Logs

Background

As we have previously written, for all Suricata’s capabilities, building out an...

Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Tuning the Sensors

Background

As we have previously written, for all Suricata’s capabilities, building out an...

Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Centralizing Sensor Management

For all Suricata’s capabilities, building out an enterprise-scale deployment of Suricata with...

Scaling Suricata in the Enterprise - Optimize Sensor Placement

As we’ve written before, Suricata is a high-performance network threat detection, IDS, IPS and...

Just Released: Suricata 6

Exciting news - the OISF just announced that Suricata 6 is now available. This is the culmination...

Uncovered with Stamus Security Platform: MoDi RAT

In this series of articles, we will explore a set of use cases that we have encountered in...

SELKS 6 [The stuck-at-home edition]

SELKS 6 is out!

If you are still teleworking, you may wish to test and deploy this new edition to...

SELKS 5 - The Sorceress

SELKS 5 is out! Thank you to the whole community for your help and feedback! Thank you to all the...

SELKS5 RC1 - Threat Hunting and more...

Hi!Yet another upgrade of our SELKS. We are very thankful to all the great Open Source projects and...

SELKS5 Beta: new hunting interface and FPC

Hey! Our new and upgraded showcase for Suricata has just been released - SELKS5 Beta. Thanks to...

SELKS 4.0

This first edition of SELKS 4 is available from Stamus Networks thanks to a great and helpful...

SELKS 4 RC1

After a very valuable round of testing and feedback from the community we are pleased to announce...

The third SELKS is out

Yes, we did it: the most awaited SELKS 3.0 is out. This is the first stable release of this new...

Let’s talk about SELKS 3.0RC1

After some hard team work, Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 3.0RC1.

Finding self signed TLS certificates - Suricata and Luajit scripting

Introduction

This is a short tutorial of how you can find and store to disk a self signed TLS...

Let's talk about SELKS 2.0

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 2.0  release.

SELKS 2.0 beta1 based on Debian Jessie

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 2.0 BETA1 release. With Jessie...

Let’s talk about SELKS 1.2

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 1.2 stable release. SELKS is both...

Conky for SELKS

Conky is a cool, desktop and lightweight monitoring tool. SELKS comes with a ready to use Conky...

Let’s talk about SELKS 1.1

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 1.1 stable release. SELKS is both...

Using Stamus Networks Debian Repositories

Stamus Networks supports its own generic and standard Debian Wheezy 64 bit packaging repositories...

Let's talk about SELKS 1.0

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 1.0 stable release. SELKS is both...

SELKS 1.0 RC1 is out

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 1.0 RC1. This is the first release...

Scirius on Ubuntu LTS

The Ubuntu used in this tutorial: