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Let’s talk about SELKS 2.1

 

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 2.1  release.

SELKS is both Live and installable Network Security Management ISO based on Debian implementing and focusing on a complete and ready to use Suricata IDS/IPS ecosystem with its own graphic rule manager. Stamus Networks is a proud member of the Open Source community and SELKS is released under GPLv3 license.

This is a major SELKS upgrade.

New Features

  • Elasticsearch 1.7  - upgrade from 1.5 (security fixes and faster recovery after restart)
  • Scirius 1.1 - upgrade from 1.0 (suricata and logstash performance stats)
  • Logstash 1.5.4 - upgrade from 1.4 (performance improvement
    in JSON handling and better security)

 

Some screenshot examples

Source addition page

Suricata memory usageElasticsearch and Logstash information

 

UPGRADE from SELKS 2.0

For those that use SELKS 2.0 and would like to do an in place upgrade to SELKS 2.1 you can follow THIS GUIDE.

NOTE: Please make sure that you test the upgrade in your test/QA environment first before doing it on your production systems.

Please note that default login/password for HTTPS access (Dashboards or Scirius icons) is selks-user/selks-user.

More about SELKS 2.1

Peter Manev

Peter Manev is the co-founder and chief strategy officer (CSO) at Stamus Networks. He is a member of the executive team at Open Network Security Foundation (OISF). Peter has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, including enterprise-level IT security practice. He is a passionate user, developer, and explorer of innovative open-source security software, and he is responsible for training as well as quality assurance and testing on the development team of Suricata – the open-source threat detection engine. Peter is a regular speaker and educator on open-source security, threat hunting, and network security at conferences and live-fire cyber exercises, such as Crossed Swords, DeepSec, Troopers, DefCon, RSA, Suricon, SharkFest, and others. Peter resides in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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