NetDash is a web-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) dashboard made for Snort and Suricata, with the goal of making IDS data more accessible and easier to interpret for security analysts. It is built using Django, React, and MariaDB, and was developed as part of the CSIT321 Final Year Project.

• Docker >= 27.4.0

1. Download NetDash via git

git clone https://github.com/CheeseBaconWaffles/NetDash.git 

2. Change to the NetDash Directory

cd NetDash 

3. Start NetDash with docker compose

docker compose up --build 

4. Apply migrations

docker compose exec backend python manage.py migrate 

5. Add a admin user

docker compose exec backend python manage.py loaddata initial_user 

This will create an admin user

• username: admin
• password: admin

You can log in with this account and create users.

NetDash Agent Setup

• Dashboard
  

• Managing NIDS
  

• ML Alerts
  

• Admin dashboard