Security Onion is a defensive network-security-monitoring and
threat-hunting platform, not an offensive pentest toolkit — it’s built
for detecting and investigating attacks, not carrying them out.
Use it only against systems/networks you own or are explicitly
authorized to monitor — see the disclaimer.
Getting started
Security Onion installs from a bootable ISO onto dedicated hardware or
a VM, configured as a sensor/manager rather than a general desktop.
Setup walks through a guided wizard that provisions its detection
stack — Suricata and Zeek for network traffic analysis, Elasticsearch
and Kibana for storage and dashboards, and Strelka for file inspection
— into one integrated platform for network security monitoring and
threat hunting.
Before you continue
SecArsenal is an independent, educational reference. It does not host, distribute, or provide exploit code — only descriptions of, and links to, publicly available third-party tools and operating systems.
By continuing, you acknowledge that you will only use the tools and techniques referenced on this site against systems, networks, or accounts you own or are explicitly authorized to test; that unauthorized access to computer systems may be illegal in your jurisdiction; and that all information is provided "as is," and that SecArsenal and its contributors assume no liability for how it is used.
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