SharkFest’13 Retrospective

June 16th - 19th, 2013
UC Berkeley, Clark Kerr Campus | Berkeley, California

Blogs

Your Network is Not a Black Box, by Gerald Combs
12 Ways to Go Deep with Wireshark at SharkFest 2013, by Dormain Drewitz
Wireshark at 15: How to Start a Project That Lasts, by Liz Padula
Wireshark Tips and Tricks Used, by Insiders and Veterans, by Hansang Bae

Press Release

SharkFest 2013 Marks 15th Anniversary of Wireshark

Packet Challenge

The SharkFest 2013 Packet Challenge answer key is online at Wireshark University.

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Packet Challenge (and an AirPcap Nx and Cascade Pilot PE license): Clay Maddox, University of North Florida (100%, but missed the bonus Challenge #7) Gareth Sydie, G-Research (Missed 1 Challenge but nailed the bonus one)

Keynote Presentations

History of the Wireshark Project - Reminiscing on the 15-Year-Old Project
Gerald Combs, Ethereal/Wireshark Project Founder + Special Guests

Ode to Gerald: “Gerald Combs, Man…Myth…Mystery”
A Wireshark University Production

“The Nice Thing About Standards is That There are so Many of Them!” Musings of an Early Networker
Rich Seifert, M.S.E.E., M.B.A., J.D., President of Networks and Communications Consulting

To Engineer is Human…So is Being Lazy: A Conversation on Network Vulnerability
Charles Kaplan, Senior Technical Director, Office of the CTO, Riverbed

Network & Application Performance Track Presentations

• NAP-01: Application Performance Analysis, by Mike Canney

• NAP-02: It’s Not the Network! The Value of Root Cause Analysis, by Graeme Bailey

• NAP-03: Microsoft SMB Troubleshooting, by Rolf Leutert

• Presentation Video (1:16:59)

• NAP-04: Wireless Network Optimization, by Trent Cutler

• NAP-05: Correlating Traces From Multiple Tiers, by Paul Offord

• Presentation Video (1:06:33)

• NAP-06: Why Pilot?, by Janice Spampinato and Martin Lewald

• Presentation Video (1:04:04)

• NAP-08: Using Wireshark as an Application Engineer, by Tim Poth

• Presentation Trace Files

• NAP-09: Application Performance Analysis, by Mike Canney

• NAP-10: Visibility for Wireshark Across Physical, Virtual and SDN, by Patrick Leong

• Presentation Video (1:10:07)

• NAP-11: Expanding Wireshark Beyond Ethernet and Network Interfaces
  , by Mike Kershaw and Mike Ryan

• Presentation Video (44:16)

• NAP-12: Packet Optimization and Visibility using Wireshark and pcaps, by Gordon Beith

• NAP-13: Wireshark Users Ask the Experts! Moderated, by Chris Bidwell

• Presentation Audio (58:10)

• NAP-14: Accessing Packet Traces from Multiple Locations, by Bill Eastman

• Presentation Video (52:53)

• NAP-15: Understanding Wireshark’s Reassembly Features, by Christian Landström

• NAP-16: Limitations of a Laptop: When Does It Start Dropping Packets?, by Chris Greer

• Presentation Video (45:02)

• NAP-17: Network Virtualization: the SDN You REALLY Want, by Steve Riley

Packet Analysis Presentations

• PA-01: Deep-Dive-Packet-Analysis, by Hansang Bae

• Presentation Video (1:16:37)

• PA-02: Introduction to IPv6 Addressing, by Nalini Elkins

• Presentation Video (1:12:54)

• PA-03: Debugging Wireless with Wireshark Including Large Trace Files, AirPcap & Cascade Pilot, by Megumi Takeshita

• PA-04: Inside the TCP Handshake, by Betty DuBois

• Presentation Video (1:17:28)

• Presentation Trace Files

• PA-05: Limitations of a Laptop: When Does It Start Dropping Packets?, by Chris Greer

• Presentation Video (45:02)

• PA-07: Troubleshooting From the Field, by Herbert Grabmayer

• PA-08: IPv6 Address Planning, by Nalini Elkins

• PA-10: Writing a Wireshark Dissector, by Graham Bloice (Zip archive)

• PA-11: How to Use Wireshark to Analyze Video, by Betty DuBois

• Presentation Trace Files

• PA-12: WLAN Troubleshooting with Wireshark and AirPcap, by Rolf Leutert

• PA-13: Trace Analysis Using Wireshark, by Nalini Elkins

• PA-14: Top 5 False Positives when Analyzing Networks, by Jasper Bongertz

• PA-15: So You’ve Found the Suspect Traffic, But What’s Causing It?, by Graeme Bailey

• Presentation Video (1:17:29)

• PA-16: Wireshark in the Large Enterprise, by Hansang Bae

• Presentation Video (1:19:04)

• PA-17: TCP Performance Problem Analysis Through Multiple Network Segments, by Jasper Bongoertz and Christian Landström

Security Presentations

• SEC-01: Understanding Encryption Services using Wireshark, by Larry Greenblatt

• Presentation Video (44:50)

• SEC-02: VoIP Fundamentals, by Phill Shade

• SEC-03: IPv6 Security Assessment Tools & Infrastructure Mitigation, by Jeff-Carrell

• SEC-04: Trace File Sanitization NG, by Jasper Bongertz

• Presentation Video (1:21:21)

• SEC-05: Using Wireshark to Gather Forensic Evidence on Malware Outbreaks in Enterprise Networks, by Christian Landström

• SEC-06: I Can Hear You Tunneling…, by Alex Weber

• Presentation Video (51:23)

• SEC-07: Wireshark Network Forensics, by Laura Chappell (Zip archive)

• Presentation Video (1:16:39)

• SEC-08: Why is Cryptography So Hard to Get Right, by Ron Bowes

• SEC-09: Attack Trends & Techniques, by Steve Riley

• Presentation Video (1:09:15)

• SEC-10: Wireshark Network Forensics, by Laura Chappell

• Presentation Video (1:16:38)

• SEC-11: IPv6 Security, by Nalini Elkins

• SEC-12: Trace File Sanitization NG, by Jasper Bongertz

• Presentation Video (1:21:21)

• SEC-13: How 802.11ac Will Hide Problems From Wireshark, by Joe Bardwell

• SEC-14: Understanding Encryption Services using Wireshark, by Larry Greenblatt

• Presentation Video (44:50)

• SEC-15: Why is Cryptography So Hard to Get Right, by Ron Bowes

• SEC-16: I Can Hear You Tunneling…, by Alex Weber

• Presentation Video (51:23)

• SEC-17: Wireless Intrusion Detection, by Mike Kershaw

A Word of Thanks

SharkFest’13 has been a smashing event, if post-conference feedback from attendees is to be believed. For this we must thank all presenters for sharing their expertise and knowledge, thank the Wireshark core developers for making our virgin HACKATHON attempt so worthwhile, thank Laura Chappell for holding her inaugural WCNA Bootcamp in conjunction with our conference, thank the attendees for their generous participation, fellowship and camaraderie, thank the staff for working tirelessly to make this a truly wonderful experience for attendees, thank the UC Berkeley Conference Services group for helping ease the process of event planning, and thank Gerald Combs for giving us such a wonderful reason to get together and lift each other up every year.

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