2026-07-20 –, Hermitage ABC | General Session
Are you at Sharkfest for the first time? Then this session is for you. We'll explain how the conference works and what's probably different from other conference you may have been at. You'll learn about Packet Doctors, the evening events, the onsite WCA exam, and what the developer den is. The goal is to make sure you don't feel you missed out on something at the end of the conference because you didn't know how it worked.
This should be a 30 minute slot right before the welcome dinner, if possible, or maybe parallel to the start of the welcome dinner.
Jasper is the Head of the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) at G Data CyberDefense in Bochum, Germany. In that role he is running a team of computer/network/memory forensics experts as well as a couple of malware reverse engineers and a number of Incident Handlers. The CSIRT helps customers that have been compromised (A.K.A. "hacked"), mostly with the attacker's intent of preparing/performing a ransomware extortion.
Jasper's official role at the G Data CSIRT is "Principal Network Security Specialist". He has over 20 years of experience in computer network analysis and network forensics, and has forgotten more about network protocols than most people will ever learn (Token Ring, ATM, some serial stuff). In previous employments he wrote and taught a number of Ethereal & Wireshark 3-5 day classes as well as official VMware classes, and Hacking courses.
Jasper is a Wireshark Certified Analyst (WCA #2) and member of the board of directors of the Wireshark Foundation.