Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

Introduction

Information security is one of the most fascinating areas in information systems, and its purpose is to secure the organization's systems against internal and external attacks, which can come in various patterns. These attacks can come from the internet or from the internal network, and as such, they all come through the network; therefore, they can be monitored with Wireshark (and other similar tools).

To monitor the network against malicious traffic, we must first understand what constitutes normal traffic and define the base line of the traffic rate, it's pattern, and so on. We can then try to find out how malicious traffic is short of being normal traffic according to it. Among unusual traffic, we might see an ARP, IP, or ...