Building a Splunk Dashboard for pfSense

After installing my pfSense firewall a couple of months ago, I have been wanting to get a nice dashboard built in Splunk. I will be building on the Snort configuration found in my last blog reviewing the Netgate-1100. (See Here) In this blog I show how to install and configure the pfSense Splunk application “TA-pfSense” …

Building a Splunk Dashboard for OpenVPN

Recently, I have started tinkering with Splunk dashboards and thought about systems or applications I would want to monitor from a “single pane of glass”. OpenVPN is my first thought due to the importance and wide use in the community. My OpenVPN build is on a CentOS 7 VM, so I will be using the …

LogRhythm Network Forensics at home

LogRhythm is a “NextGen SIEM” that allows much more than log management. They include all the current cyber security acronyms in their SIEM solution such as UEBA, NTBA, SAO, and TLM. I will be focusing on the network traffic and behavior analytics offering called LogRhythm NetMon. LogRhythm NetMon is used to collect inline or mirrored …