Security Onion (https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion) is a great system, I love it, but starting with V2 I really had problems installing it on my test systems at home. I spent hours, many hours. No, I don’t have a data center at home, and yes, I’m fine testing it with WiFi and not having a monitoring interface. And no, I don’t understand why SO went this road to make it hard to impossible to test it this way. So to set up a …
This is a little blog post describing my home network setup and the thoughts and principles behind it. I hope it may be of use to somebody having similar goals. Design Decisions General affordable should scale well for a private LAN trade-off between security and usability extendable should offer places to learn “Women acceptance Factor ready” aka should simply work Technical Network Securiy Monitoring: offer a way to sniff all traffic to uplink provider (except directly connected devices to uplink …