README.md

S4A

Suricata for All (S4A) is a distributed intrusion detection system (IDS). It utilizes open source software components to monitor, analyse and capture network traffic to detect possible intrusions.

Docs are located at: docs.s4a.cert.ee

Reactor definition in /etc/salt/master for vpn/easy-rsa stuff:

- 'vpn/s4a/serial':
  - /srv/reactor/vpn.sls

Reactor definition in /etc/salt/master for vpn/easy-rsa client cert autosigning:

- 'salt/beacon/*/inotify//etc/openvpn/keys':
  - /srv/reactor/sign_crt.sls

Credits

Without the following open source products, this project would not have been possible:

• Suricata - Intrusion detection system.

  • https://suricata-ids.org/

• Evebox - Web based alert and event management tool for events generated by the Suricata network threat detection engine https://evebox.org

• Netdata - a system for distributed real-time performance and health monitoring. In this project itis meant for independent health monitoring of detector installations.

  • https://github.com/firehol/netdata

• nfsen - NfSen is a graphical web based application for the nfdump netflow tool. . Lightweight traffic analysis tool to substitute Moloch.

  • http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/

• Moloch - Moloch is an open source, large scale, full packet capturing, indexing and database system.

  • https://github.com/aol/moloch

• OpenVPN - Open Source VPN software.

  • https://openvpn.net/

• Elasticsearch - Elasticsearch is a Lucene based distributed full-text search and analytics engine designed for horizontal scalability, maximum reliability, and easy management.

  • https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

• Telegraf - Telegraf is a metrics reporting agent written in Go for collecting, processing, aggregating and sending metrics to InfluxDB.

  • https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf

• InfluxDB - Time Series Database Monitoring & Analytics

  • https://www.influxdata.com/

• Grafana - The open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring

  • https://grafana.com/

• Loopback - Web interface to manage detector settings and other aspects. Communication with salt and web interface is done via loopback connected to a MongoDB database.

  • https://github.com/strongloop/loopback

• SaltStack - Configuration management and orchestration for both detector and central components

  • [https://saltstack.com/]