Question

1. For your hands on exercise this week you will use Wireshark Packet Analysis software. Please post how this software can be used in an organization or business network and you may comment how you can use Wireshark for your personal home network. Please comment if you have experience with Wireshark or this is your first time using the software.

2. The author discusses 802.11i PSK and 802.1x on pages 225 - 232. Please compare and contrast the differences between both modes and please post a case study or you may briefly discuss if you have ever implemented either modes in your personal or corporate network.

3. The author discusses IoT (Internet of Things) Security on pages 251 and 252. Please post a case study, organization, application, or device that implements or provides security for IoT in a couple of sentences or more.

Answer 1

1. Wireshark Packet Analysis software

It is an open-source software package for network packet analysis.

It attempts to capture network packet and tries to display that packet data with detailed information.

Major applications of Wireshark:

1. Analysis of network-related issues
2. Examining network security
3. Understand network protocol internals
4. Debug network protocol implementations
5. QA engineers to verify network applications

(For answer question no 2 and 3, more information about the pages is required)