Registration Packages

SharkFest attendees hone their skills in the art of packet analysis by attending lecture and lab-based sessions delivered by the most seasoned experts in the industry. Wireshark core code contributors also gather during the conference days to enrich and evolve the tool to maintain its relevance in ensuring the productivity of modern networks.

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.

Analyzing TCP connections is one of the biggest topics in network analysis in general, especially when troubleshooting applications or even multi-tiered deployments of servers. How TCP works and detecting problems is one of the 'easy to learn, hard to master' skills that is always in demand. Most Wireshark classes only touch the basics and do not go into the more complex scenarios, especially when it comes to multi point captures to track packet loss and timing issues. In this masterclass you will learn how to troubleshoot TCP in seemingly simple as well as complex and quite challenging cases.