Matthias Kaiser
Matthias started working in network analysis in 1996 as a Sniffer University staff instructor at Network General, where he delivered Sniffer University training and coordinated the European instructor team. In 2004, as a freelance instructor and network consultant, he wrote his own courseware on troubleshooting networks with Wireshark. Since 2009, Matthias has been working for ExperTeach, a German training and consulting company, where he manages and teaches the ExperTeach packet analysis curriculum for business customers. He has trained many individuals on Wireshark and helped them identify network and application-related problems since.
Sessions
To analyze PCAP files, you have to learn a lot about protocols, processes and typical problems in networks. However, it is just as important to collect the right data at the right place in the network in order to obtain the packet data required for the analysis.
Network analysts need clearly defined tasks of what to identify, check, prove or solve. They need to understand the network structure and application behavior at customer sites and finally get permission to capture application traffic with the required equipment.
In this presentation, Matthias will discuss the issues network analysts need to address before they start collecting data from customer sites or from their own corporate networks. Using real cases, he will explain what was helpful for a successful analysis, and what was not.