--- title: Let's talk about SELKS 2.0 description: Let's talk about SELKS 2.0 image: https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/SELKS2_0-Scirius-2.png --- [![Stamus-Logo-with-R-color-small](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Stamus-Logo-with-R-color-small.png "Stamus-Logo-with-R-color-small")](https://www.stamus-networks.com/?hsLang=en) # Let's talk about SELKS 2.0 by [Peter Manev](https://www.stamus-networks.com/blog/author/peter-manev) | May 06, 2015 | [SELKS](https://www.stamus-networks.com/blog/tag/selks), [Open Source](https://www.stamus-networks.com/blog/tag/open-source), [Suricata](https://www.stamus-networks.com/blog/tag/suricata), [Stamus Labs](https://www.stamus-networks.com/blog/tag/stamus-labs) ![](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/SELKS2_0-Scirius-2.png) Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 2.0  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 - Debian Jessie based  - With Debian Jessie  being [released last week  - 25 April](https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426)   SELKS makes the switch as well (from Debian Wheezy and 3.2 kernel). The new Debian release Jessie will enable SELKS for much better HW compatibility, new kernel 3.16 and all the performance improvements, features and benefits with it right out of the box. - [Elasticsearch 1.5](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-1-5-2-and-1-4-5-released)  - upgrade from 1.4 - [Scirius 1.0](https://www.stamus-networks.com/2015/04/21/scirius-1-0-is-out/?hsLang=en) - upgrade from 1.0rc3   #### Some screenshot examples ##### Scirius [![SELKS2.0-Scirius-2](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/SELKS2_0-Scirius-2-300x141.png?width=300&height=141&name=SELKS2_0-Scirius-2-300x141.png)](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/SELKS2_0-Scirius-2.png?hsLang=en) [![Screenshot from 2015-04-20 22:07:08](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Screenshot-from-2015-04-20-220708-300x133.png?width=300&height=133&name=Screenshot-from-2015-04-20-220708-300x133.png)](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Screenshot-from-2015-04-20-220708.png?hsLang=en) ##### IDS/IPS dashboards [![SELKS2.0-1](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/SELKS2_0-1-300x139.png?width=300&height=139&name=SELKS2_0-1-300x139.png)](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/SELKS2_0-1.png?hsLang=en) 12 ready to use IDS/IPS dashboards [![VLAN3](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/VLAN3-300x113.png?width=300&height=113&name=VLAN3-300x113.png)](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/VLAN3.png?hsLang=en) By VLAN break down File Transactions/SSH [![VLAN2](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/VLAN2-300x113.png?width=300&height=113&name=VLAN2-300x113.png)](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/VLAN2.png?hsLang=en) By VLAN break down DNS/TLS [![SMTP-Attachments](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/SMTP-Attachments-300x89.png?width=300&height=89&name=SMTP-Attachments-300x89.png)](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/SMTP-Attachments.png?hsLang=en) By file attachment breakdown SMTP [![VLAN1](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/VLAN1-300x116.png?width=300&height=116&name=VLAN1-300x116.png)](https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/VLAN1.png?hsLang=en) By VLAN break down Alerts/HTTP #### UPGRADE from SELKS1.2 For those that use SELKS 1.2 and would like to do an in place upgrade to SELKS 2.0 you can follow [THIS GUIDE](https://github.com/StamusNetworks/SELKS/wiki/SELKS-1.2-to-SELKS-2.0-upgrades). **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 2.0 - [Download SELKS 2.0](https://www.stamus-networks.com/open-source/?hsLang=en#selks) - Documentation: [Howto and README ](https://github.com/StamusNetworks/SELKS/tree/jessie) - More information and news: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/StamusN/), [Google+](https://plus.google.com/+Stamus-networks/) and [Github](https://github.com/StamusNetworks) - Get help on Freenode IRC on the #SELKS channel and/or  [Google Mailing list](http://groups.google.com/d/forum/selks). 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