Looking Back Over 1 Million Security Onion ISO Downloads

Our Security Onion ISO image has been downloaded over 1 million times!  Thanks to our entire community for your support!  If you haven't already downloaded your copy, head on over to https://securityonion.net/download!

When I started Security Onion way back in 2008, I never would have imagined that we would hit 1 million downloads.  Let's take a walk down memory lane and see how we got here.

9/3/2008 First Security Onion blog post
https://blog.securityonion.net/2008/09/security-onion.html

10/22/2008 Started working on the first Security Onion ISO based on Ubuntu 8.04
https://blog.securityonion.net/2008/10/security-onion-livecd.html

6/4/2009 first Security Onion release based on Xubuntu 9.04
https://blog.securityonion.net/2009/06/security-onion-livecd-is-now-available.html

6/16/2009 added Bro
https://blog.securityonion.net/2009/06/security-onion-livecd-20090613.html

8/16/2009 started building Security Onion community - mailing list, issue tracker, wiki
https://blog.securityonion.net/2009/08/security-onion-on-google-code.html

10/12/2010 new version of Security Onion based on Xubuntu 10.04 and including Suricata
https://blog.securityonion.net/2010/10/security-onion-live-20101010-edition.html

1/5/2011 new release includes Squert web interface, new Setup script, and OSSEC HIDS
https://blog.securityonion.net/2011/01/security-onion-20110101.html
https://blog.securityonion.net/2011/01/security-onion-20110101-setup-script.html
https://blog.securityonion.net/2011/01/security-onion-20110101-ossec-and-sguil.html

1/6/2011 Richard Bejtlich suggests in-place upgrade:
https://blog.securityonion.net/2011/01/security-onion-20110101.html?showComment=1294317204238#c2797095959331531686
https://blog.securityonion.net/2011/01/security-onion-upgrade-script.html

4/7/2011 distributed deployments
https://blog.securityonion.net/2011/04/security-onion-20110321-distributed.html

10/19/2011 disabling NIC offloading
https://blog.securityonion.net/2011/10/when-is-full-packet-capture-not-full.html

12/31/2012 Security Onion 12.04 included all components built as Ubuntu packages
https://blog.securityonion.net/2012/12/security-onion-1204-is-now-available.html

6/10/2013 Security Onion 12.04.1
https://blog.securityonion.net/2013/06/security-onion-12041-iso-image-now.html

7/25/2013 Security Onion 12.04.2
https://blog.securityonion.net/2013/07/security-onion-12042-iso-image-now.html

9/12/2013 Mike Reeves developed OnionSalt for managing distributed deployments
https://blog.securityonion.net/2013/09/new-package-onionsalt-now-available-for.html

9/14/2013 Security Onion 12.04.3
https://blog.securityonion.net/2013/09/security-onion-12043-iso-image-now.html

2/28/2014 Security Onion 12.04.4
https://blog.securityonion.net/2014/02/security-onion-12044-iso-image-now.html

7/7/2014 Security Onion Solutions LLC
https://blog.securityonion.net/2014/07/introducing-security-onion-solutions-llc.html

9/12/2014 First ever Security Onion Conference and Security Onion 12.04.5
https://securityonion.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conference.html
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/security-onion-conference-soc-2014-tickets-12205183031#
https://blog.securityonion.net/2014/09/security-onion-12045-iso-image-now.html

2/16/2015 Security Onion 12.04.5.1
https://blog.securityonion.net/2015/02/security-onion-120451-iso-image-now.html

7/6/2015 Security Onion 12.04.5.2
https://blog.securityonion.net/2015/07/security-onion-120452-iso-image-now.html

9/12/2015 Security Onion 12.04.5.3
https://blog.securityonion.net/2015/09/security-onion-120453-iso-image-now.html

1/20/2016 Security Onion 14.04.3.1
https://blog.securityonion.net/2015/09/security-onion-120453-iso-image-now.html
https://blog.securityonion.net/2016/01/security-onion-140431-screenshot-tour.html

3/28/2016 Security Onion 14.04.4.1
https://blog.securityonion.net/2016/03/security-onion-140441-iso-image-now.html

6/13/2016 Security Onion 14.04.4.2
https://blog.securityonion.net/2016/06/security-onion-140442-iso-image-now.html

9/9/2016 Security Onion 14.04.5.1
https://blog.securityonion.net/2016/09/security-onion-140451-iso-image-now.html

2/20/2017 Security Onion 14.04.5.2
https://blog.securityonion.net/2017/02/security-onion-140452-iso-image-now.html

3/16/2017 started integrating the Elastic stack
https://blog.securityonion.net/2017/03/towards-elk-on-security-onion.html

4/9/2018 Security Onion 14.04.5.11 and Elastic GA
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/04/security-onion-elastic-stack-general.html

4/18/2018 Security Onion 14.04.5.12
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/04/security-onion-1404512-iso-image-now.html

5/1/2018 Security Onion 14.04.5.13
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/05/security-onion-1404513-iso-image-now.html

5/31/2018 Security Onion 16.04.4.1
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/05/security-onion-160441-iso-image-now.html

6/8/2018 over 600,000 Security Onion ISO downloads!
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/06/security-onion-is-over-600000-downloads.html

6/25/2018 Security Onion 16.04.4.2
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/06/security-onion-160442-now-available.html

7/24/2018 Security Onion 16.04.4.3
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/07/security-onion-160443-now-available.html

8/6/2018 Security Onion 16.04.5.1
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/08/security-onion-160451-now-available.html

9/4/2018 Security Onion 16.04.5.2
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/09/security-onion-160452-now-available.html

10/19/2018 Security Onion 16.04.5.3
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/10/security-onion-160453-now-available.html

11/3/2018 Security Onion Hybrid Hunter announced
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/11/security-onion-hybrid-hunter-101-tech.html

11/26/2018 Security Onion 16.04.5.4
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/11/security-onion-160454-now-available.html

12/17/2018 Security Onion 16.04.5.5
https://blog.securityonion.net/2018/12/security-onion-160455-now-available.html

1/14/2019 Security Onion 16.04.5.6
https://blog.securityonion.net/2019/01/security-onion-160456-now-available.html

5/20/2019 Security Onion 16.04.6.1
https://blog.securityonion.net/2019/05/security-onion-160461-now-available.html

8/28/2019 Security Onion 16.04.6.2
https://blog.securityonion.net/2019/08/security-onion-160462-now-available.html

12/4/2019 Security Onion 16.04.6.3
https://blog.securityonion.net/2019/12/security-onion-160463-now-available.html

2/18/2020 Security Onion 16.04.6.4
https://blog.securityonion.net/2020/02/security-onion-160464-iso-image-now.html

3/30/2020 Security Onion 16.04.6.5
https://blog.securityonion.net/2020/03/security-onion-160465-iso-image-now.html

As we look to the future, we are busy refining our next generation Hybrid Hunter platform and hope to release a Beta version soon!  Stay tuned!