Wireshark for Basic Network Security Analysis

Course Feature
  • Cost
    Paid
  • Provider
    Coursera
  • Certificate
    Paid Certification
  • Language
    English
  • Start Date
    17th Jul, 2023
  • Learners
    No Information
  • Duration
    2.00
  • Instructor
    Menna ElSharkawy
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2.5
8 Ratings
This project-based course teaches learners how to use Wireshark to capture and analyze network traffic securely. Participants will gain an understanding of encrypted and unencrypted traffic, and learn to differentiate between them. They will also explore protocols such as RADIUS, HTTP, DNS, Telnet, HTTPS, and SSH. Finally, they will learn how to capture and decrypt HTTPS traffic using a pre-master secret key.
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Course Overview

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Updated in [March 06th, 2023]

Learners can learn a variety of topics from this course, including:

1. Network Security Analysis: Learn how to use Wireshark to capture and analyze network traffic, differentiate between encrypted and unencrypted traffic, and dig deeply into unencrypted protocols such as RADIUS, HTTP, DNS, and Telnet.

2. Secure and Encrypted Protocols: Generate, capture, and look into secure and encrypted protocols such as HTTPS and SSH. Learn how to capture HTTPS traffic and decrypt it using a pre-master secret key.

3. Network Traffic Generation: Generate the traffic of each protocol and capture it yourself to gain a better understanding of how it works.

4. Regional Availability: This project works best for learners based in the North America region, but the same experience is being worked on for other regions.

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Pros & Cons
  • Content was ok but very basic.
  • Gave a good review of Wireshark capabilities.
  • Enlightened to how insecure some network communications are.
  • Little explanation on why certain settings are done.
  • Issues in 3 of the exercises.
  • Nonrefundable.
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