Security Onion 2.3.220 now available including Elastic 8.6.2, Grafana 9.2.10, FleetDM 4.27.1, Zeek 5.0.7, and more!

UPDATE 2023/03/01 An issue has been identified in this release and we recommend holding off on upgrading until we have a fix in place.

UPDATE 2023/03/01 4:36 PM Eastern We've released a fix.

Security Onion 2.3.220 is now available! It includes Elastic 8.6.2, Grafana 9.2.10, FleetDM 4.27.1, Zeek 5.0.7, and more:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/release-notes.html#changes

Documentation

You can find our online documentation here:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/

You can also purchase a printed copy of our documentation from Amazon:
https://securityonion.net/book

The printed book will be updated for 2.3.220 in the next few days and includes an inspiring foreword by Richard Bejtlich that is not available anywhere else! Proceeds go to the Rural Technology Fund and the printed book also includes a 20% discount code for our on-demand training and certification.

New Installations

If you want to perform a new installation, please review the documentation and then you can find instructions here:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/download.html

Existing 2.3 Installations

WARNING! If you have an existing Security Onion 2.3 installation that hasn't yet been updated to version 2.3.140 or higher, then you should be aware that the Elastic components will undergo a major version upgrade to version 8. Please review and follow the steps at the link below. Failure to do so could result in loss of access to all data stored inside of Elastic and a non-functioning Security Onion installation.

https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/soup.html#elastic-8

Please be aware that custom settings in Kibana may be overwritten during upgrade. We recommend that you test the upgrade process on a test deployment before deploying to production. If you have a distributed deployment, then we recommend monitoring SOC Grid while your update is running to verify that all nodes update properly. If there are issues, you can review logs, services, and containers for any additional clues. If you need help, please see our support information below.

If you have custom Elasticsearch templates, please see:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/elasticsearch.html#custom-templates

For more information about the update process, please see:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/soup.html

AWS Marketplace

For new Security Onion 2 installations on AWS, Security Onion 2.3.220 will soon be available on AWS Marketplace via the official Security Onion 2 AMI:
https://securityonion.net/aws/?ref=_ptnr_soc_blog_230224

AMI Documentation:
https://securityonion.net/docs/cloud-ami

Existing Security Onion 2 AMI users should use the "soup" command to upgrade:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/soup.html

Azure Marketplace

For new Security Onion 2 installations on Azure, Security Onion 2.3.220 will soon be available on the Azure Marketplace!

https://securityonion.net/azure

Azure Documentation:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/cloud-azure.html

Existing Security Onion 2 users on Azure should use the "soup" command to upgrade:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/soup.html

Security Onion 16.04 EOL

As a reminder, Security Onion 16.04 has reached End Of Life (EOL):
https://blog.securityonion.net/2021/04/security-onion-1604-has-reached-end-of.html

If you're still running Security Onion 16.04, please see the following for upgrade options:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/appendix.html

Questions or Problems

If you have questions or problems, please see our community support forum guidelines:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/community-support.html

You can then find the community support forum at:
https://securityonion.net/discuss

Thanks

Lots of love went into this release!

Special thanks to all our folks working so hard to make this release happen!

• Josh Brower
• Jason Ertel
• Wes Lambert
• Josh Patterson
• Mike Reeves

Training

Need training? Start with our free Security Onion Essentials training and then take a look at some of our other official Security Onion training!

https://securityonion.net/training

Hardware Appliances

We know Security Onion's hardware needs, and our appliances are the perfect match for the platform. Leave the hardware research, testing, and support to us, so you can focus on what's important for your organization. Not only will you have confidence that your Security Onion deployment is running on the best-suited hardware, you will also be supporting future development and maintenance of the Security Onion project!

https://securityonionsolutions.com/hardware

Screenshot Tour

If you want the quickest and easiest way to try out Security Onion 2, just follow the screenshots below to install an Import node and then optionally enable the Analyst Workstation. This can be done in a minimal VM with only 4GB RAM! For more information, please see:

https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/first-time-users.html

Security Onion Hybrid Hunter 1.1.0 ALPHA Available for Testing!

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

We're excited to announce that Hybrid Hunter 1.1.0 is now available for testing and is considered our ALPHA release!
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion-saltstack/blob/master/README.md

Major highlights of this ALPHA release:

• Alpha is here!! Check out the Hybrid Hunter Quick Start Guide.
• There is a new PCAP interface called Sensoroni. You can pivot directly from Kibana to Sensoroni via the _id field.
• Bond interface setup now uses nmcli for better compatibility in the network based setup script.
• Filebeat traffic for HH components now use a separate port (5644). This will allow you to send Beats to the default port (5044) and choose how you want to secure it. It is still recommended to use full SSL via Filebeat and if you already have this set up you will need to change to port 5044. We will continue to refine this in future versions.
• Authentication is now enabled by default for all the web based components. There will be some major changes before we get to BETA with how authentication in general is handled due to Elastic "Features" and other components.
• Add users to the web interface via so-user-add and follow the prompts.
• so-allow now exists to make your life easier.
• Bro 2.6.2.
• All Docker images were updated to reflect Alpha status.
• Disabled DEBUG logging on a lot of components to reduce space usage.
• Added a rule update cron job so the master pulls new rules down every day at 7AM UTC.
• You can now manually run a rule update using the so-rule-update command.

Thanks to the following for all of their work on this release!
Mike Reeves
Wes Lambert
Dustin Lee
Josh Brower
William Wernert

And special thanks to Jason Ertel for his work on Sensoroni!

Screenshots

Pivoting from Kibana to Sensoroni 

Sensoroni showing overview of pcap data

Sensoroni showing detail of pcap data

Sensoroni showing ASCII transcript of pcap data