Security Onion Solutions
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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
2012
Big Distro Rebuild (BDR)
2014
Security Onion Solutions, LLC
2016
Company expansion
2018
Custom hardware
2019
Team continues to grow!
2020
Security Onion 2
2021
Over 2 million downloads!
2022
Significant software features introduced
2023
Security Onion 2.4 released
2024
Security Onion Pro
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
Robbie Marshall
Senior 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