Posts Tagged With ‘Playbook’

  1. The Network Capture Playbook Part 6 – Planning Network Troubleshooting

    In the previous posts of the Capture Playbook series we discussed various approaches about how to record packets, but before going into more elaborate techniques of doing that we should talk about how a network troubleshooting project works, and especially how to plan a capture setup. In my experience this aspect of a troubleshooting is […]

  2. Network Forensics Playbook – Banner Inspection and Client Origin

    I recently did a hands-on-no-slides presentation at a very small security conference end of last year where I demoed some of the typical things I do when performing a network forensics analysis, using tshark, Wireshark and TraceWrangler. I’ll use these blog posts as a transcript of what I did, so that it’s easy to read […]

  3. The Network Capture Playbook Part 5 – Network TAP Basics

    Most network captures are recorded using SPAN ports, as we’ve seen in the previous part of this series. Now that we know what SPAN is all about, it’s time to find out what TAPs are all about, and why you would want (or need) to use them in network capture. TAP is an acronym for […]