{"id":8002,"date":"2021-09-30T02:29:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T02:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allabouttesting.org\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2022-11-17T17:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:02:25","slug":"security-onion-free-platform-for-network-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allabouttesting.org\/security-onion-free-platform-for-network-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Onion – Free Platform for Network Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Security Onion is a free Linux-based distro used for network security. It is built on top of the Xubuntu\u00a0Long-term Support<\/strong>\u00a0(LTS<\/strong>) distro. It is mainly used for log management and threat hunting. Many open-source tools such as Suricata (Intrusion Detection System, IDS), Snort (Open Source Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)), etc are bundled with Security Onion. This blog provides you with a brief introduction to Security Onion covering download, installation, tools available in OS, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download and Installation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

You can download Security Onion by using the below link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After downloading, you can install the operating system on a virtual machine. If you are a new user, select Evaluation Mode which enables most things automatically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security Onion Platform<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Analyst Tools<\/strong>
Hunt, Kibana, TheHive, Navigator, Playbook, Fleet, Cyberchef<\/td><\/tr>
Network & Host Data
<\/strong>Strelka, Beats, Steno, Zeek, Wazuh, Osquery, Suricata<\/td><\/tr>
Infrastructure<\/strong>
Docker, Salt, Grafana, Logstash, Filebeat, Redis, ElasticSearch<\/td><\/tr>
Operating System
<\/strong>CentOS, Ubuntu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How can we use Security Onion to secure Infrastructure?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Security Onion can be deployed with firewalls, servers, and other IT devices. Later, it is configured to consume logs and provide alerts in case of any suspicious activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools Available in Security Onion<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

There are many open-source tools available in the operating system that helps to detect and mitigate network attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Security Onion Console<\/strong> – When you login into the operating system, this is the first thing you encountered. As the name suggests, it provides a console interface to manage and also provides alerts from different tools such as Suricata, Wazuh, Hunt, Zeek etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Kibana –<\/strong> Tool created by Elastic, used to analyze different types of logs and alerts generated by different open-source tools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • CyberChef – <\/strong>Analysis tool used to analyze, and decode data for advanced analysis of data<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Playbook –<\/strong> Web application helps in creating a security detection strategy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • TheHive<\/strong> – Case Management Interface provides logs from Hunt, Kibana etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Conclusion<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Security Onion is a versatile Linux-based distro that can be deployed in different architectures. It provides a single solution for full packet capture, threat hunting, log analysis, metadata analysis, etc. This helps administrators to manage security issues in a network in an easy way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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