Installation of PFELK on ubuntu. ELK for pfSense

As per my promise or I can say mention of pfSense installation I am presenting the installation guide. By the way, I just copied every step from the GitHub repository document if anyone is wondering. Steps given in the official documentation are perfect and straight forward. I honestly rewrote it because I was running out of ideas and I promised it in the previous post.  But one thing I would say that if you are a beginner like me don’t use scripted install, do it manually. It is good to know what components are being installed to get it done. The one important thing I would say about ELK (btw, I have told this many times before but I need content, JK ;)) is that it is a base for so many SIEM and cannot be neglected from learning it from the base. You can customize it so much to basically make it look like you :). Now enough of these fillers let’s get straight … Read more

Actively monitor pfsence firewall. PFELK: Elastic stack for pfsence

You will notice that this article has something to do with ELK stack AGAIN!!!. ELK stack is so flexible that it can fit into many different use cases. Today’s use-case of elk stack will be with the firewall. Most firewalls hardly have any kind of dashboard integrated with them, which makes it harder to monitor … Read more