Archive for November 2020

Filebeat on a Raspberry Pi

I’ve recently revamped my home network security monitoring. Currently I’m capturing and streaming all network traffic on my MikroTik router’s outside interface to a remote sensor, namely a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GB RAM running Suricata IDS. Suricata’s log is read by Elastic’s Filebeat and shipped to an Elasticsearch instance, making the data available […]

Traffic capturing and streaming with MikroTik – revisited

I’ve recently revamped my home network security monitoring. Currently I’m capturing and streaming all network traffic on my MikroTik router’s outside interface to a remote sensor, namely a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GB RAM running Suricata IDS. Suricata’s log is read by Elastic’s Filebeat and shipped to an Elasticsearch instance, making the data available […]

Compiling Suricata IDS on a Raspberry Pi 4

I’ve recently revamped my home network security monitoring. Currently I’m capturing and streaming all network traffic on my MikroTik router’s outside interface to a remote sensor, namely a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GB RAM running Suricata IDS. Suricata’s log is read by Elastic’s Filebeat and shipped to an Elasticsearch instance, making the data available […]

Making working from home even lazier

Working from home encourages home office optimization. During the COVID-19 period, with way more video conferences than usual, certain improvements were found necessary. I guess everyone that’s been in a video meeting where more than one participant used a regular mic and regular speakers has experienced the wonders of audio feedback. That prompted me to […]