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SELKS is an open-source network security monitoring and threat detection platform built around Suricata. It is designed for security teams that need network intrusion detection, alert triage, flow analysis, and packet investigation in a deployable stack.
💡 Pick it for a broader, more mature network-monitoring stack with stronger community support.
Security Onion is an open-source platform for network security monitoring.
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National Security Agency
💡 Choose it when packet forensics and long-term network evidence matter more than a turnkey alerting experience.
Malcolm is an open-source network traffic analysis toolset for full-packet capture, flow analysis, and network security monitoring. It is aimed at defenders...
💡 Pick it when you want SELKS's detection engine with maximum deployment flexibility and minimal platform overhead.
Suricata is an open-source, high-performance network threat detection engine supporting IDS, IPS, and network security monitoring. It is intended for security teams...
💡 Choose it for deep protocol visibility and custom behavioral detections rather than an integrated Suricata-centric stack.
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. Its capabilities extend beyond...
💡 Pick it for a proven IDS/IPS engine and established rule ecosystem instead of a complete monitoring distribution.
Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Sourcefire. Combining...
Arkime Project
💡 Choose it when searchable full-packet investigation is the priority and detection can come from complementary sensors.
Arkime is an open-source, large-scale packet-capture and network-analysis platform with a web interface for browsing sessions and inspecting traffic. It is built...
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