New Slips version 1.0.2 is here!

Our team is excited to share the latest news and features of Slips, our behavioral-based machine learning intrusion detection system. 

Quick links:

What We Are Particularly Excited About

In this release we are particularly excited about these new Slips features:

  • Add a blocking indicator in alerts.json

  • Add a progress bar to slips showing the number of processed flows

  • Add a zeek script to recognize the gateway IP and add it to notice.log 

  • Add the option to display all evidence in a profile

  • Add the option to view blocked profiles only in the web interface

  • Add the uids that caused evidence to the evidence description in alerts.json

  • Code optimizations

  • Don't alert "Connection to Private IP" when there's a DNS connection on port 53 UDP to the gateway

  • Faster reading of netflow and suricata files

  • Kill web interface on ctrl+c

  • Support ASNs in our own_malicious_iocs.csv file

  • Update slips default whitelist

  • Use the current user's timezone in alerts.log and alets.json

More new features

We are constantly improving Slips, and a full list of changes in this last version is available in the Slips changelog. These are some of the new fixes that we have been working on:


  • Fix caching ASN ranges

  • Fix displaying alerts of profile in the webinterface

  • Fix error parsing AIP TI list.

  • Fix having duplicate alerts

  • Fix problem displaying data from the DB in the web interface 

  • Fix searching in the web interface

  • Fix vertical and horizontal portscan errors

  • Fix wrong Source/Target type in alerts.json


Check Our Slips Demo 

Get a quick overview of what Slips is about and all its capabilities in this demo presented at the LCN conference in 2021.

And the analysis of several malicious PCAPs using Slips: https://stratospherelinuxips.readthedocs.io/en/develop/slips_in_action.html 

Get in Touch

Feel free to join our Discord server and ask questions, suggest new features or give us feedback. PRs and Issues are welcomed in our repo.


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