SharkFest'24 US June 15th – until 20th, 2024

Advanced Network and Security analysis encompasses capturing data and the ability to discern unusual patterns hidden within seemingly normal network traffic. Additional complexity due to the increasing adoption of the Next Generation Protocol stacks, including the IPV6-based family, threatens to make this job even more challenging. This course provides the student with an introduction to investigative and analysis techniques focusing on the use of vendor-neutral, Open-Source Tools such as Wireshark.

The filtering capabilities in Wireshark are very flexible and powerful and have been significantly enhanced with the release of Wireshark 4.0. In this masterclass, your filtering skills will be taken to the next level. We will start with the basic operators and work our way through the more advanced filtering techniques like how to use display filter macros, dynamic filters (in combination with filter buttons), filtering arithmetics, regular expressions, etc. There will also be a comparison with using (advanced) BPF filters for filtering while capturing or post-processing pcap files.