Security Onion Solutions
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  1. Is Security Onion for me?
    Security Onion is deployed within all major industry verticals, in home offices, governments, and Fortune 500 enterprises.
  2. Where is Security Onion installed?
    Security Onion is installed in nearly every country on the planet.
  3. Why Security Onion?
    Security Onion is free, the source code is open, and it is created and maintained by cybersecurity professionals who use it every day.
  4. Who uses Security Onion?
    We don't disclose our customer names. However, we look forward to receiving user feedback which helps us improve Security Onion!
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Latest Developments
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Our Partners
About Us
Security Onion Solutions, LLC is the creator and maintainer of Security Onion, a free and open platform for threat hunting, network security monitoring, and log management. Security Onion includes best-of-breed free and open tools including Suricata, Zeek, the Elastic Stack and many others.
We created and maintain Security Onion, so we know it better than anybody else. When you purchase products and services from us, you're helping to fund development of Security Onion!
Our History
Our humble beginnings
2008
2009
First release
2014
Security Onion Solutions, LLC
2018
Appliance Offering
2020
Security Onion 2
2021
2+ million downloads!
2024
Security Onion Pro
2025
Onion AI Assistant
2026
Security Onion 3
In 2008, Doug Burks started working on Security Onion, a Linux distribution for intrusion detection, network security monitoring, and log management.
Our Team
Doug Burks
Founder and CEO
Phil Plantamura
Chief Operating Officer
Mike Byrd
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Reeves
Vice President of Product
Josh Brower
Principal Engineer
Karen Henegar Long
Key Account Manager
Josh Patterson
Principal Engineer
Bryant Treacle
Senior Engineer
John Bernal
Senior Engineer
Jason Ertel
Vice President of Software Engineering
Chris Morgret
Manager of Support and Professional Services
Matt Gracie
Senior Engineer
Ethan Burrow
Associate Support Engineer
Tom Gilson
Senior Engineer
Jorge Reyes
Senior Engineer
Corey Ogburn
Senior Software Engineer
Reggie Harris
Associate Support Engineer
David Inglett
Decisive Insights
Sales Director
Elaine Tolley
Sales and Training Support
Michael Stokes
Federal Account Executive
Matthew Wright
Associate Software Engineer
Scott Lynch
Senior Engineer
Shane Hoenke
Senior Engineer
Scott Hall
Customer Success Manager