security-onion VS Suricata

Compare security-onion vs Suricata and see what are their differences.

security-onion

Security Onion 16.04 - Linux distro for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management (by Security-Onion-Solutions)

Suricata

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community. (by OISF)
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security-onion Suricata
3 23
2,900 4,058
- 6.0%
3.9 9.9
about 3 years ago about 12 hours ago
C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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security-onion

Posts with mentions or reviews of security-onion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-02.

Suricata

Posts with mentions or reviews of Suricata. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing security-onion and Suricata you can also consider the following projects:

Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

DetectionLab - Automate the creation of a lab environment complete with security tooling and logging best practices

Fail2Ban - Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

Sending your docker logs - Sending logs from docker containers to Logit.io

crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.

cyberchef-recipes - A list of cyber-chef recipes and curated links

OSSEC - OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

Microsoft-365-Defender-Hunting-Queries - Sample queries for Advanced hunting in Microsoft 365 Defender

pfSense - Main repository for pfSense

snort-rules - An UNOFFICIAL Git Repository of Snort Rules(IDS rules) Releases. [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]

maltrail - Malicious traffic detection system