Moloch is a serious open source project, run by serious people who care about network security. They published their code under an open source license, showing off just how confident they are that it is solid. You can use this project to inspect packets on your network, you can learn how they built it and become a valuable network security engineer with a job somewhere finding people trying to hack in to your site. You can propose modifications to make this even better (and if your code is good enough, it will get accepted and used by security teams around the world). Or you could focus on the name they chose and the name of the company at the time this was published.
I'd seize the opportunity to talk tech and focus on network security. Infosec jobs pay better than brand marketing jobs.
The fact we have access to tools like this (and many, many others) is so damn motivating. I am working through some structured course material in preparation for net-sec baseline `$vendor-$certification` exams, and there are so many complexities and rabbit holes that it's easy to be overwhelmed. Some nights are harder than others to see forest for the trees when it feels I'm trying to understand how to pick up a single pine cone to study.
Then I see projects like this, or Jaeger/OpenZipkin, or Chaos Monkey, and I'm simply inspired. Much like listening to a killer record.
I don't spend time feeling sorry for myself because an ancient, somewhat esoteric proper noun was used to describe the project.
Moloch is a serious open source project, run by serious people who care about network security. They published their code under an open source license, showing off just how confident they are that it is solid. You can use this project to inspect packets on your network, you can learn how they built it and become a valuable network security engineer with a job somewhere finding people trying to hack in to your site. You can propose modifications to make this even better (and if your code is good enough, it will get accepted and used by security teams around the world). Or you could focus on the name they chose and the name of the company at the time this was published.
I'd seize the opportunity to talk tech and focus on network security. Infosec jobs pay better than brand marketing jobs.