Doug Burks
Founder And CEO at Security Onion Solutions, LLC
Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Burks is a seasoned cybersecurity entrepreneur and engineer with 16+ years building defender-focused tools and teams, best known as the founder and CEO of Security Onion Solutions and lead developer of the widely used Security Onion open platform. He blends deep hands-on expertise in threat hunting, network security monitoring, intrusion detection, incident response, and log management with practical DevOps and systems automation—often authoring and tuning core deployment and analysis scripts for large-scale monitoring stacks. Previously he served in incident response and security leadership roles at Mandiant and as a SANS instructor and mentor, bringing both operational rigor and a knack for teaching complex detection techniques. Based in Georgia, Doug pairs product-minded engineering with professional services, training, and appliance offerings, and his long-running stewardship of a major open-source project underscores a rare combination of community-driven development and commercial delivery.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Augusta State University
Github Skills (21)
amazon-elasticsearch10
zeek10
security10
elasticsearchquery10
logstash10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
network-security10
devops10
elasticsearch-api10
dockers9
bash9
docker9
automation-testing9
automation9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections, and case management. It also includes other tools such as osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 591 reviews, 618 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Doug primarily focused on configuring and maintaining infrastructure and security-related configurations. They modified the `so-setup-network.sh` script, adjusted parameters for logstash, influxdb, and Elasticsearch, and integrated various import mode configurations. Several commits involved Zeek configuration and file extraction improvements, along with fixes related to analyzer descriptions. This suggests a focus on automation, system administration, and security within the context of the Security Onion platform.
case-managementkibanalogstashopen-platformzeek
Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion-elsa-extras
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:134 commits, 22 PRs, 127 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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