There are many options to choose from when setting up The Security Onion. The use cases are vast, including a NIDS (Zeek, Suricata), HIDS (Beats, Wazuh, osquery) and standalone instances for a SOC workstation and static analysis. I really like SO as a platform to collect all kinds of data from the network and from your systems (some even use the word XDR).
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