How to do it...

In this section, we will walk through a few tools included in Security Onion that can help in security monitoring:

  1. Once we are done with the setup of the security tools included in Security Onion, we have to create a user account to use these tools. Open the Terminal and run the following command to create a user for the tools:

In the preceding step, we have created a user named pentest1 and then configured the password for them.

  1. Once we have created the user account, we can start using the tools.
  2. On the desktop, we can find the icon for the SGUIL tool. Double-click on the icon to run the tool.
  1. A login screen will open, ...

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