PFsense vs Mikrotik

• securityonion

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  Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, and case management. It also includes other tools such as Playbook, osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.

  

I have been debating in my head whether to keep my current setup (PFsense on an old laptop) or buy a 'proper?' solution, by this I mean specialised hardware. PFsense has had a few issues like randomly dropping out, but it has been fine for around 4 days now. My question is: Should I buy a Mikrotik HEX S and use the laptop for other things, or not buy a Mikrotik and instead buy a Dell Optiplex 3020 from Ebay and run SecurityOnion (https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion) or pfELK (https://github.com/pfelk/pfelk) on it.

• pfelk

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  pfSense/OPNsense + Elastic Stack

  

I have been debating in my head whether to keep my current setup (PFsense on an old laptop) or buy a 'proper?' solution, by this I mean specialised hardware. PFsense has had a few issues like randomly dropping out, but it has been fine for around 4 days now. My question is: Should I buy a Mikrotik HEX S and use the laptop for other things, or not buy a Mikrotik and instead buy a Dell Optiplex 3020 from Ebay and run SecurityOnion (https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion) or pfELK (https://github.com/pfelk/pfelk) on it.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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