SharkFest’15 Retrospective

June 22nd - 25th, 2015
Computer History Museum | Mountain View, California

Packet Challenge

Click HERE to download the Packet Challenge questions/answers and the pcap files!

Keynote Presentations

High Impact: How Computer Geeks, Geniuses and Renegades are Changing the World

John C Hollar

Blogs

SharkFest’15 Recap by Jasper Bongertz

SharkFest’15 Recap by John Schreiner

SharkBytes

Tuesday Classes

• 01: Troubleshooting Fundamentals: Time-Tested Technique to Finding Root Cause - How I Approach Every Packet-Level Troubleshooting Exercise by Hansang Bae

• 02: Introduction to Wireshark: Making Sense of the Matrix by Chris Greer

• Presentation Video (1:13:00)

• 03: Writing a Wireshark Dissector Using WSGD, Lua and C by Graham Bloice

• Presentation Materials

• Presentation Video (1:14:39)

• 04: Tracewrangling: Preparing Food for the Shark by Jasper Bongertz

• Presentation Video (1:11:00)

• 05: Visualizations & Correlations in Troubleshooting by Kevin Burns

• 06: Integrating L2/L3 Diagnostics: Deducing Network Configuration by Nalini Elkins

• 07: TCP Analysis: Tips & Case Studies by Chris Greer

• Presentation Video (1:05:00)

• 08: IPv6 in Wireshark by Jeff Carrell

• 09: The Wireless Side of Wireshark by Thomas d’Otreppe de Bouvette

• 10: Analyzing Huge Data for Suspicious Traffic by Christian Landström

• 11: Changing Wireshark with Lua: Writing a Lua Plug-in to Create a Custom Decoder by Hadriel Kaplan

• Presentation Video (1:19:03)

• 12: Matching Packets in Multiple Network Traces by Paul Offord

• Presentation Video (1:09:41)

Wednesday Classes

• 13: Advanced TCP Stuff: We’re not in RFC 793 Anymore! by Jasper Bongertz

• Presentation Video (1:06:13)

• 14: Simple Wireless Packet Capture on Android by Mike Kershaw

• 15: How To Get the Packets: Packet Capture Techniques for the Enterprise by Paul Offord

• Presentation Video (1:09:00)

• 16: Network Troubleshooting Using ntop [PDF || PPT] by Luca Deri

• Presentation Video (1:09:22)

• 17: Troubleshooting Routing Protocols with Wireshark by John Schreiner

• Presentation Video (1:13:31)

• 18: De-duping Packet Capture Files at Layer 3: Using Wiretap to Create a Custom De-duping App by Rober Bullen

• 19: SSL Does Not Mean SOL by Scott Haugdahl

• 20: Understanding Wireshark’s Reassembly Features by Christian Landström

• 21: TCP Analysis: Tips & Case Studies by Chris Greer

• Presentation Video (1:05:00)

• 22: Network Forensics 101: What You Don’t See Will Hurt You! by Phill Shade

• 23: Discover WLANs with Wireshark, AirPcap & WiSpy: Troubleshooting WLANs using 802.11 Management & Control Frames by Rolf Leutert

• 24: Capturing Mobile Device Traffic with Wireshark by Tom Updegrove

Thursday Classes

• 25: Troubleshooting the TCP Handshake by Betty DuBois

• Presentation Video (1:17:27)

• 26: Root Cause in Complex Networks: Tips & Lessons from Fast-Paced & Enterprise Financials by Chris Bidwell

• Presentation Video (1:16:36)

• 27: Network Troubleshooting Using ntop [PDF || PPT] by Luca Deri

• 28: T-Shark for the Win! by Christian Landström

• 29: Wireless Troubleshooting Tips using AirPcaps: DFS & Module Debugging by Megumi Takeshita

• 30: How Did That Happen? Practical Techniques for Analyzing Suspicious Traffic by Phill Shade

• 31: Zen & The Art of Packet Capturing: Packet Capture Techniques in Different Scenarios by Sake Blok

• 32: Why is FTP So Slow? Which End is Holding it Up? by Nalini Elkins

• 33: Using the TRANSUM Wireshark Plugin to Measure Application Performance by Paul Offord

• Presentation Video Part 1 (45:25)

• 34: Wireshark vs. the Cloud: Capturing Packets in Virtual Environments by Jasper Bongertz

• 35: The Anatomy of a Vulnerability by Ron Bowes

• 36: Wireshark and the Art of Packet Analysis by Hansang Bae

A Word of Thanks

SharkFest’15, in our new home at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, proved to be a rousing success, with over 300 IT Professionals from 25 countries in attendance. A good time was had by all, thanks to the dedication of our very capable SharkFest coordinating crew, sponsors, volunteers, instructors, and Wireshark core developers. Thanks for giving us a reason to come together again, Gerald!

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