Security Onion First Steps - Part 1

This is the first in a series of videos dedicated to the Security Onion, an excellent Linux distribution created by Doug Burks for people who take care of “Network Security Monitoring” (NSM) and “Network Intrusion Response”.

In this first part we deal with some introductory and basic aspects such as:

• Download .iso image and md5 hash file
• Verify the md5 checksum of downloaded .iso image
• Security Onion Installation ( on a Vmware VM )
• Shell commands first steps
• Vmware Tools Installation
• Security Onion upgrade
• VM snapshot creation