Security Onion 2

The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports. I have used the Squert tool within Security Onion the most for threat hunting.

The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult.

I have been using Security Onion for one year.

The solution’s technical support is good and responsive.

Neutral

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a six out of ten.

Security Onion is an open-source solution.

On a scale from one to ten, where ten is expensive and one is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten.

Before choosing Security Onion, we evaluated Splunk. We chose Security Onion because it's a free and open-source solution.

Security Onion is deployed on the cloud in our organization. I would recommend the solution to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

The solution is used to learn how the tools work. It enables us to do consulting and demonstrate solutions. We develop attacks, detect them, and demonstrate how it works. The customers are interested in seeing how and what these tools can do.

We are only working with open-source products. The tool is very easy to install and easy to update. A lot of interfaces are specified. So, it's quite easy to make extensions. It is very important when we do experiments and try to connect and integrate other tools. Security Onion  is the most mature solution in the open source world. This is its biggest advantage.

The product takes time to learn, it's not that easy. In the beginning we had a lot of questions. If you want to use such a tool in an real (industrial) environment, you have to ask how to get the network data. Can we do a full packet capture? Can we provide agents to our end systems? There are no simple solutions to these questions. It's a general problem when running such systems in an industrial environment.

I have been using the solution for about ten years. I am using the latest version.

There is a community. If we are active and ask people questions, we get answers. We also have the option to buy support for difficult problems.

We also use Malcolm. It is a similar platform. But it is not as mature as Security Onion . The system management features are not perfect and need to be improved.

The solution is partially in a real environment and partially in a virtual environment. The focus is on the OT environment. Our main focus is to deliver security in automation systems. It is very easy to set up.

It is an open-source solution. The vendor also sells a hardware solution (appliance) as a paid solution.

My advice depends on the requirements, network, and resources available in an organization. It also depends on whether someone is looking for a turnkey solution, whether they are interested in working alone, and what their skills are. There is no one solution for all installations. Overall, I rate the product a ten out of ten.

We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment.

Security Onion's user interface could be improved. The solution's general reporting should be made simple and better-looking in terms of graphics so that we can update our senior management.

I have been using Security Onion for four years.

Security Onion is a stable solution, but we experience some crashes.

I rate Security Onion a six out of ten for stability.

Security Onion is a scalable solution, but some connected APIs are a bit difficult to integrate. Two people are using Security Onion in our organization.

I rate Security Onion a five out of ten for scalability.

We are part of the solution's blogging site, where we discuss with other people working on it so that we understand most things. Security Onion's blogging site or community forum helps us to resolve all our issues.

Security Onion's deployment needs to be a bit simple. Some explanations or jargon are a bit complicated and should be made simple enough to understand.

Security Onion is a free solution.

Security Onion is deployed on our established private cloud, which operates from our recovery site.

Security Onion does not need any maintenance.

You need to be skilled in order to use Security Onion.

Overall, I rate Security Onion a six out of ten.