Being the first time we write here about SELKS, we feel obliged to inform our readers about what this distro. Therefore, SELKS is a specially designed ISO image that’s always synchronized with the Debian GNU/Linux repos and includes various popular software applications for maintaining and hardening the security of your network. The new release, SELKS 3.0, comes with a lot of updated components, among which we can mention the Suricata 3.1.1 high-performance network IDS, IPS and network security monitoring engine, Elasticsearch 2.3.5 open-source, distributed, RESTful search engine, along with the Kibana 4.5.4 analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.