Re: Linux distro for Snort inline as IPS

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

On 2016-01-25 16:44, Sec_Aficiondado wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Apologies if this has been asked before but web searches are not
> helping me in this regard today.
>
> I was wondering if there is a particularly well suited, stripped down,
> Linux distribution that could be used for a machine only running Snort
> inline as an IPS. Ideally something that only has the components Snort
> needs and nothing more.
>
> VMs are OK too.
>
> Thanks!

I think Security Onion would be a good fit:

https://security-onion-solutions.github.io/security-onion/

James

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