Let’s talk about SELKS 2.1

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 2.1  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

• Elasticsearch 1.7  - upgrade from 1.5 (security fixes and faster recovery after restart)
• Scirius 1.1 - upgrade from 1.0 (suricata and logstash performance stats)
• Logstash 1.5.4 - upgrade from 1.4 (performance improvement
  in JSON handling and better security)

Some screenshot examples

UPGRADE from SELKS 2.0

For those that use SELKS 2.0 and would like to do an in place upgrade to SELKS 2.1 you can follow THIS GUIDE.

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 2.1

• Download SELKS 2.1
• Documentation: Howto and README
• More information and news: Twitter, Google+ and Github
• Get help on Freenode IRC on the #SELKS channel and/or  Google Mailing list.