How to Install Security Onion 2.4

Security Onion is a free and open‑source Linux distribution for network security monitoring, intrusion detection, log management, and threat hunting [web:50]. It bundles Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, Elastic, Grafana and a full analyst web interface into a single deployable platform. In this post we’ll install Security Onion 2.4 as a virtual machine, walk through the Setup wizard, enable the analyst web UI, and finish with concrete incident investigation workflows that show why every defender should ha