MozDef VS SecurityOnion

MozDef

The Mozilla Defense Platform (MozDef)is as a set of micro-services you can use as an open source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) overlay on top of Elasticsearch.

SecurityOnion

Security Onion is a free and open source Linux distribution for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.

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2021-10-18

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to MozDef and SecurityOnion)

SecurityOnion

Security & Privacy

30 30%

Security & Privacy

70% 70

Monitoring Tools

25 25%

Monitoring Tools

75% 75

Security Information And Event Management (SIEM)

100 100%

Security Information And Event Management (SIEM)

0% 0

Cyber Security

26 26%

Cyber Security

74% 74

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Reviews

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The MozDef architecture is designed in a way that does not allow log shippers (rsyslog, syslog-ng, beaver, nxlog, heka, logstash) direct access to Elasticsearch. Rather, MozDef places itself between Elasticsearch and the log shippers, thereby making it possible for log shippers to interact directly with MozDef as shown in the diagram below. This makes MozDef different from...

Source: www.comparitech.com

8 Best Open Source SIEM Tools

The Mozilla Defense Platform (MozDef) is an open-source SIEM layer developed by the Mozilla Corporation that sits atop Elasticsearch. It enables security teams to collect, store, and manage events and logs from various systems, makes log and event data searchable, and creates alerts against specific events in the log stream. MozDef also integrates easily with tools like AWS...

Source: www.logiq.ai

The Top 14 Free and Open Source SIEM Tools For 2022

Mozdef was developed by Mozilla and is operated in an AWS account. It is one of the large arsenal of tools available for attackers helping them coordinate, share intelligence and fine-tune attacks in real-time.

Source: logit.io

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SecurityOnion seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 23 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

MozDef mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of MozDef yet. Tracking of MozDef recommendations started around May 2022.

SecurityOnion mentions (23)

Self Hosted Traffic Monitoring
You’re looking for Security Onion, https://securityonionsolutions.com/. It’s a bunch of integrated tools that will sniff traffic and show alerts. Self hosted, open source, and free. Source: 5 months ago
Did I get a cyber role too early?
Grab Security Onion for some blue team tools, try to get Zeek, Wazuh, and Suricata working and look at the output. Source: 11 months ago
Do you have any recommendations for a way to log every website that comes across my network with the mac address that requested it?
If you want a GUI tool try Security Onion. (https://securityonionsolutions.com/). It is essentially zeek & more wrapped up in an easy to use GUI. Source: 11 months ago
Home Virtual SIEM Lab Suggestions?
Used security onion many years ago. https://securityonionsolutions.com/. Source: over 1 year ago
Server Hardening
Active Measures - Includes (IDS/IPS) such as open-source Suricata or Snort on pfSense, and File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), such as the commercial Tripwire and dated, open-source Tripwire, or the open-source Wazuh installed on servers. These can be combined into a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system like the open-source solution, Security Onion. Wazuh itself has evolved into a SIEM. Source: over 1 year ago