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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
Today marks the twelfth birthday of Security Onion Solutions -- a dozen years of providing training, support, and other services on top of the free and open Security Onion platform. Here's to many more!
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Good morning Charm City! If you're at #AFCEATechnet, come to booth 3242 to see the legendary Michael Stokes and learn about using Security Onion to peel back the layers of your network.
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jun 2latest
3
Avg engagement / post
2–4
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
83/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 4 likes + reposts (median 3) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! Today marks the twelfth birthday of Securi · 5 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.4 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
Today marks the twelfth birthday of Security Onion Solutions -- a dozen years of providing training, support, and other services on top of the free and open Security Onion platform. Here's to many more!
Security Onion 3.2.0 is NOW AVAILABLE, with a whole bunch of new features and quality of life improvements.
- Initial implementation of Agentic AI functionality
- Gemma now available as a hosted AI model
- Datastream Lifecycle Management
-…
Excited to be sponsoring BSides Atlanta this year - looking forward to seeing everyone in October!
https://bsidesatl.info/
We are once again hosting our annual user conference in beautiful Augusta, GA on October 23, and we want to hear from you! Our Call For Presenters (CFP) is open through this weekend, and we're looking for speakers with unique use cases, hu…
USING SOFTWARE RAID?
We've identified an issue with an updated release of mdadm that could cause problems for Security Onion deployments using software RAID filesystems. If that applies to you, this blog post has more information:
https://…
Curious about the Human-Centered Investigative Playbook (HCIP) standard that underlies our Guided Analysis feature? If you're going to be at @bsidespgh this week, come see our Senior Engineer @blueteamgoon, presenting in the afternoon on …
JUST POSTED: We've just released an update to our Introduction to Security Onion overview video, recorded with Security Onion 3. Learn all about the platform, how it fits into your security architecture, the ways to pivot between logs from…
DID YOU KNOW?
Security Onion Pro includes a feature called Manager of Managers, or MoM, which leverages the Security Onion API to allow access to other Security Onion installations in your environment from a central console.
Perfect for …
DID YOU KNOW?
It's possible to enable or disable Suricata NIDS rules in Security Onion using regular expressions -- if you want to turn off all of those ET INFO or TOR alerts, this is an easy way to do it. And the best part is it will appl…
On this day in 2009 the very first release of Security Onion hit the Internet. A lot has changed since then, but it's still the best free and open solution to help you peel back the layers of your network and see what's really happening.
Good morning Charm City! If you're at #AFCEATechnet, come to booth 3242 to see the legendary Michael Stokes and learn about using Security Onion to peel back the layers of your network.
It's time for O's, Bohs, and SO -- Security Onion Solutions is coming to Baltimore! Looking forward to seeing all our friends at #AFCEATechnet in Charm City this week, come see us at booth 3242 to find out how we can help you peel back the…
Curious about the Human-Centered Investigative Playbook (HCIP) standard that underlies our Guided Analysis feature? If you're going to be at @bsidespgh this week, come see our Senior Engineer @blueteamgoon, presenting in the afternoon on …
JUST POSTED: We've just released an update to our Introduction to Security Onion overview video, recorded with Security Onion 3. Learn all about the platform, how it fits into your security architecture, the ways to pivot between logs from…
DID YOU KNOW?
Security Onion Pro includes a feature called Manager of Managers, or MoM, which leverages the Security Onion API to allow access to other Security Onion installations in your environment from a central console.
Perfect for …
DID YOU KNOW?
It's possible to enable or disable Suricata NIDS rules in Security Onion using regular expressions -- if you want to turn off all of those ET INFO or TOR alerts, this is an easy way to do it. And the best part is it will appl…
On this day in 2009 the very first release of Security Onion hit the Internet. A lot has changed since then, but it's still the best free and open solution to help you peel back the layers of your network and see what's really happening.
Good morning Charm City! If you're at #AFCEATechnet, come to booth 3242 to see the legendary Michael Stokes and learn about using Security Onion to peel back the layers of your network.
It's time for O's, Bohs, and SO -- Security Onion Solutions is coming to Baltimore! Looking forward to seeing all our friends at #AFCEATechnet in Charm City this week, come see us at booth 3242 to find out how we can help you peel back the…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
Medium
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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