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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, detections, and case management. It also includes other tools such as osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.

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MalcolmPartial2.5kOtherOpen sourceYesPythonv26.09.02026-10-15

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MalcolmPartial

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network traffic analysis tool suite for full packet capture artifacts (PCAP files), Zeek logs and Suricata alerts.

Network traffic analysis from PCAP, Zeek logs and Suricata alerts, with no host agents.

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2026-10-15

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