Mastering Wireshark 2: Develop skills for network analysis and address a wide range of information security threats

Mastering Wireshark 2: Develop skills for network analysis and address a wide range of information security threats

Packt | English | 2018 | ISBN-10: 1788626524 | 326 pages | PDF | 66.17 MB

Mastering Wireshark 2 helps you gain expertise in securing your network. We start with installing and setting up Wireshark2.0, and then explore its interface in order to understand all of its functionalities. As you progress through the chapters, you will discover different ways to create, use, capture, and display filters. By halfway through the book, you will have mastered Wireshark features, analyzed different layers of the network protocol, and searched for anomalies. You'll learn about plugins and APIs in depth. Finally, the book focuses on pocket analysis for security tasks, command-line utilities, and tools that manage trace files.

What you will learn
Understand what network and protocol analysis is and how it can help you
Use Wireshark to capture packets in your network
Filter captured traffic to only show what you need
Explore useful statistic displays to make it easier to diagnose issues
Customize Wireshark to your own specifications
Analyze common network and network application protocols
Who This Book Is For
If you are a security professional or a network enthusiast and are interested in understanding the internal working of networks, and if you have some prior knowledge of using Wireshark, then this book is for you.

Table of Contents
Installing Wireshark 2
Capturing Traffic
Filtering Traffic
Customizing Wireshark
Statistics
Introductory Analysis
Network Protocol Analysis
Application Protocol Analysis I
Application Protocol Analysis II
Command Line Tools
Troubleshooting Scenario

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