Security Onion is a Linux distro for intrusion detection, network security monitoring, and log management. It's based on Ubuntu and contains Snort, Suricata, Bro, OSSEC, Sguil, Squert, ELSA, Xplico, NetworkMiner, and many other security tools. The easy-to-use Setup wizard allows you to build an army of distributed sensors for your enterprise in minutes!
Easy-to-use Setup wizard allows you to build an army of distributed sensors for your enterprise in minutes
Analyze your NIDS/HIDS alerts with Squert
Pivot between multiple data types with Sguil and send pcaps to Wireshark and NetworkMiner
Use ELSA to slice and dice your logs
Access full packet capture with CapMe
Snort/Suricata and Bro compiled with PF_RING to handle lots of traffic
Easy updates
- Alert data - HIDS alerts from OSSEC and NIDS alerts from Snort/Suricata
- Asset data from Prads and Bro
- Full content data from netsniff-ng
- Host data via OSSEC and syslog-ng
- Session data from Argus, Prads, and Bro
- Transaction data - http/ftp/dns/ssl/other logs from Bro