SharkFest’18 Retrospective

June 25th - 28th, 2018
Computer History Museum | Mountain View, California

Keynote Presentations

Twenty Years Of Code And Community

Gerald Combs

Wireshark: The Microscope of the 21st Century

Usman Muzaffar

Blogs

SharkFest US 2018 Review, by Denise Fishburne

SharkBytes

Tuesday Classes

01: In the Packet Trenches - (Part 1), by Hansang Bae
Presentation Video (1:16:46)
02: An Introduction to Wireshark: Rookie to Veteran in 2 sessions (Part 1), by Betty DuBois
03: Writing a Wireshark Dissector: 3 ways to eat bytes, by Graham Bloice
Presentation Video (1:14:11)
04: In the Packet Trenches - (Part 2), by Hansang Bae
Presentation Video (1:14:11)
05: An Introduction to Wireshark: Rookie to Veteran in 2 sessions (Part 2), by Betty DuBois
06: Using more of the features of Wireshark to write better dissectors, by Richard Sharpe
07: Using Wireshark to solve real problems for real people: Step by-step case studies in packet analysis, by Kary Rogers
Presentation Video (1:12:53)
08: Traffic analysis of cryptocurrency & blockchain networks, by Brad Palm and Brian Greunke
09: Developer Lightning Talks, by Wireshark Core Developers
10: Hands-on analysis of multi-point captures, by Christian Landström
11: Augmenting packet capture with contextual meta-data: the what, why, and how, by Stephen Donnelly
Presentation Video (51:43)
12: Point and Shoot Packet! Point your packet effectively & Shoot the trouble with Wireshark, by Megumi Takeshita
13: Practical Tracewrangling: exploring capture file manipulation/extraction scenarios, by Jasper Bongertz
Presentation Video (1:31:02)
14: BGP is not only a TCP session: Learning about the protocol that holds networks together, by Werner Fischer
Presentation Video (1:00:04)
15: How to get 100% of your data off the wire, by Greg Zemlin

Wednesday Classes

16: TCP - Tips, Tricks, & Traces (Part 1), by Chris Greer
Presentation Video (1:17:23)
17: extcap – Packet capture beyond libpcap/winpcap: bluetooth sniffing, android dumping & other fun stuff!, by Roland Knall
Presentation Video (45:35)
18: Generating Wireshark Dissectors: A status report, by Richard Sharpe
Presentation Video (56:11)
19: TCP - Tips, Tricks, & Traces (Part 2), by Chris Greer
Presentation Video (1:11:54)
20: Wireshark in the “Real World”: Top ways to use Wireshark in the real world of an IT engineer, by Patrick Kinnison
21: sFlow: Theory & practice of a sampling technology and its analysis with Wireshark, by Simone Maindardi
Presentation Video (1:10:53)
22: Writing a TCP analysis expert system, by Jasper Bongertz
Presentation Video (1:13:37)
23: Playing with “MATCHES”: Using regular expressions for fun & profit, by Mike Hammond
Presentation Video (1:21:08)
24: Know Abnormal, Find Evil: A Wireshark Beginner’s Guide for the Security Professional, by Maher Adib
Presentation Video (1:17:12)
25: A deep dive into SIP: everything you need to know to debug & troubleshoot SIP packets, by Betty DuBois
26: Analyzing Windows malware traffic with Wireshark, by Bradley Duncan
Presentation Video (1:37:01)
27: My TCP ain’t your TCP: Stack behavior back then & today, by Simon Lindermann
Presentation Video (1:13:49)
28: The Packet Doctors are In! Packet trace examinations, by the experts, by Hansang Bae, Jasper Bongertz, Christian Landström, Sake Blok and Kary Rogers
29: Baselining with Wireshark to identify & stop unwanted communications, by Jon Ford
Presentation Video (59:51)
30: BGP is not only a TCP session: Learning about the protocol that holds networks together, by Werner Fischer
Presentation Video (1:00:04)

Thursday Classes

31: Traffic analysis of cryptocurrency & blockchain networks, by Brad Palm and Brian Greunke
Presentation Video (1:21:15)
32: We’ll never do it right: A look at security, what we’re doing and how we’re trying to fix things, by Mike Kershaw
Presentation Video (1:26:03)
33: Wireshark CLI tools & scripting, by Sake Blok
Presentation Video (1:11:14)
34: Patterns in TCP retransmissions: Using Wireshark to better understand the retransmission process, by Scott Reid
Presentation Video (1:11:33)
35: Behind the Green Lock: Examining SSL encryption/decryption using Wireshark, by Ross Bagurdes
Presentation Video (1:02:20)
36: Wireshark and beyond! Complementing your Wireshark analysis with other open source & low-cost tools, by Mike Canney
37: Packet monitoring in the days of IoT and Cloud, by Luca Deri
Presentation Video (1:17:09)
38: Baselining with Wireshark to identify & stop unwanted communications, by Jon Ford
Presentation Video (59:51)
39: Introduction to practical network signature development for open source IDS (Part 1), by Jason Williams and Jack Mott
40: Mangling packets on the fly with divert sockets: how to hack a Cisco router ACL, by Kary Rogers
Presentation Video (1:04:33)
41: My TCP ain’t your TCP: Stack behavior back then and today, by Simon Lindermann
Presentation Video (1:13:49)
42: Introduction to practical network signature development for open source IDS (Part 2), by Jason Williams and Jack Mott
43: OPEN FORUM: Aha! Moments in packet analysis, by Chris Greer
44: Analyzing Windows malware traffic with Wireshark, by Bradley Duncan
Presentation Video (1:37:01)
45: Introduction to practical network signature development for open source IDS (Part 3), by Jason Williams and Jack Mott

A Word of Thanks

SharkFest’18 US celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Wireshark project and proved a blazing success thanks to the generous, giving community in attendance. Particular thanks to Gerald Combs and his merry band of core developers for inspiring the many first-time participants, by opening with a keynote that illuminated the 20-year history of the project, to Laura Chappell for creating a truly crowd-pleasing Packet Palooza Pub Quiz, to Usman Muzaffar for his thoughtful keynote that explained why Wireshark can be considered the microscope of the 21st century, to instructors who selflessly donated time and wisdom to educate and mentor participants, to sponsors who so generously provided the resources to make the conference possible, to the Computer History Museum Events team for their expert guidance, to tireless caterers who served up varied and delicious daily fare, to Albert our AV Angel, to a staff and volunteer crew who once again went overboard in making the conference as smooth and pleasant an experience as possible for attendees, and to Aaron and Lainey for delighting us all with their golden intelligence!

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