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Mastering Wireshark 3 - Second Edition
Step up your network analysis and network forensics skills with Wireshark
Created byPackt Publishing
Last updated 7/2020
English
What you'll learn
- Understand how to use Wireshark to help troubleshoot dropped packets, latency issues, and malicious activity on your network
- Learn to capture and analyze network traffic to understand what is happening on your network.
- Troubleshoot network problems by analyzing network latency, performance, and availability. Detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues.
- Examine security issues to protect your network from malicious code and network vulnerabilities.
- Verify network communications to analyze your network strength and connections and ensure good network quality.
- Analyze network protocols to capture data for further analysis and understand of the technical means necessary packets.
- Analyze application protocols to troubleshoot network problems and use them to examine security problems.
- Expand Wireshark's capabilities and functions with plugins and APIs.
- Use PyShark to modify how Wireshark captures and filters packets.
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Course content
8 sections • 44 lectures • 3h 41m total length
Requirements
- Knowledge of Python is required to learn PyShark and familiarity with Wireshark is assumed.
Description
Mastering Wireshark 3 (2nd Edition) will help you gain expertise in securing your network. As you progress through the course, you will discover different and important ways to create, use, capture, and display filters.
Learn to master Wireshark's features, analyze different layers of your network protocol, and search for abnormality in your network traffic. The course focuses on packet analysis for security tasks, command-line utilities, and tools that manage trace files.
You will delve into analyzing applications aimed primarily at web browsing; master commands that can also be set up and configured to run from the command prompt; and learn to use the new feature in Cisco routers and switches to capture packets directly from devices and mirror (SPAN) ports. Lastly, you'll learn to expand upon the capabilities and functions of Wireshark plugins and APIs and build on your Python skills by using PyShark to modify how Wireshark captures and filters packets.
By the end of this course, you'll have learned to customize Wireshark in-depth for network security analysis using commonly used protocols and to configure it effectively for troubleshooting and daily monitoring purposes.
About the Author
Rick Bodnar is an IT professional with an extensive technology background; he has worked with technology for over 24 years. In that time, he has held a variety of IT management positions.
In addition, he has also been an adjunct instructor for higher education institutions such as Kent State University, Penn State University, and the University of Mount Union.
His focus is on networking technology. Technologies that Rick Bodnar is proficient in include TCP/IP networking, IP routing, VPN Tunneling, DNS, to name a few. He has worked with Wireshark for over 15 years.
Who this course is for:
- This course assumes that the viewer is already familiar with the OSI and TCP/IP models and only briefly covers the specifics required to understand the course.