Security Onion
Security Onion is a free and open source distribution of Linux. It is useful for intrusion detection, enterprise-level security monitoring, and log management. Security Onion comes with a suite of tools preinstalled, such as Snort, Suricata, Kibana, OSSEC, and many more.
Getting ready
Security Onion can be installed using the ISO image of Security Onion, the link for which is available on its official website. Another way to install Security Onion is to first install a standard Ubuntu 16.04 ISO image and then add the PPA and packages of Security Onion.
To download the ISO image of Security Onion, visit this link:
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/blob/master/Verify_ISO.md.
How to do it...
In this section, we will see how to install Security Onion using the ISO image. After the installation, we will configure it for further use:
- To start the installation, we boot our system using the ISO image. We will be presented with the following screen, where we select...
