Security Onion 12.04 Beta Available Now!

After many months of hard work, I'm excited to announce that Security Onion 12.04 Beta is available now!  Thanks to everyone who has helped get us this far!

Quick highlights:

• Choose your favorite flavor of 32-bit/64-bit Ubuntu (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, or Ubuntu Server)

• Add our PPA and our packages and run through the Setup wizard to get:

• Snort, Suricata, Bro, Sguil, Squert, Snorby, NetworkMiner

• PF_RING and AF_PACKET fanout for high performance and scalability

• ELSA - Enterprise Log Search and Archive

For full instructions, please see the Security Onion 12.04 Beta page on our Wiki.

If you're at DerbyCon this weekend, come check out the new Security Onion 12.04 Beta on Saturday at 6:00 PM! 

Sguil showing 2 load-balanced Snort processes using PF_RING

Snorby showing 2 load-balanced Snort processes using PF_RING

Squert showing 2 load-balanced Snort processes using PF_RING

ELSA with new Dashboard functionality