- Lab
- Core Tech
Wireshark Interface Customization and Targeted Capture
In this lab, you’ll practice customizing your Wireshark settings and performing a packet capture to analyze network traffic. This will teach you how to capture and filter data for information of interest. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to perform Wireshark captures and filter it based on the data you are looking for.
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Challenge
Configure the Wireshark Interface for Efficient Analysis
In this objective you will learn how to customize your Wireshark profile to filter for data of interest and make it easier to identify information of interest.
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Execute a Targeted Packet Capture in a Simulated Environment
In this objective you will learn how to perform custom packet captures of simulated traffic.
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Apply Advanced Filtering Techniques for Post-Capture Analysis
In this objective you will learn how to filter a packet capture to isolate information of interest.
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Final Objective
In this final objective you will get familiar with Wireshark’s export feature as well as how to export/share custom profiles. For this final objective find out where Wireshark stores custom profiles on your local machine so you can reuse any profiles you make. Also, try to export the file that was shared using ftp from the packet capture that you created.
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