SharkFest'26 Europe

Katherine Leese

Katherine is a tech professional with 4 years of experience, having retrained in her 40s to become a Computer Expert, specialising in System Integration. Originally from New Zealand, she is currently based in Germany. During her training, she undertook a practicum at SevenShift, a boutique IoT cybersecurity company in Cologne that recognised her talent and dedication, ultimately hiring her. She is now employed there, where she is honing her skills and contributing to the company's security initiatives. Outside of her professional life, Katherine is a dedicated single mother to a teenager. She is a member of the Haecksen, the FINTA branch of the CCC, and a Chapter Leader of OWASP Cologne.


Session

11-04
14:45
60min
TLS and Friends: The Protocol Family
Katherine Leese

A packet-level tour of the TLS family. What stays visible when everything's encrypted? TLS is everywhere, and most people assume that means "encrypted, end of story." But TLS is a family of protocols, and each member leaves a different footprint on the wire. This talk is a tour of that family through Wireshark, built around a single idea: encryption hides content, not behaviour.

Intermediate
Room 1