SharkFest’13 Retrospective

June 16th - 19th, 2013
UC Berkeley, Clark Kerr Campus | Berkeley, California

Blogs

Your Network is Not a Black Box, by Gerald Combs
12 Ways to Go Deep with Wireshark at SharkFest 2013, by Dormain Drewitz
Wireshark at 15: How to Start a Project That Lasts, by Liz Padula
Wireshark Tips and Tricks Used, by Insiders and Veterans, by Hansang Bae

Press Release

SharkFest 2013 Marks 15th Anniversary of Wireshark

Packet Challenge

The SharkFest 2013 Packet Challenge answer key is online at Wireshark University.

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Packet Challenge (and an AirPcap Nx and Cascade Pilot PE license): Clay Maddox, University of North Florida (100%, but missed the bonus Challenge #7) Gareth Sydie, G-Research (Missed 1 Challenge but nailed the bonus one)

Keynote Presentations

History of the Wireshark Project - Reminiscing on the 15-Year-Old Project
Gerald Combs, Ethereal/Wireshark Project Founder + Special Guests

Ode to Gerald: “Gerald Combs, Man…Myth…Mystery”
A Wireshark University Production

“The Nice Thing About Standards is That There are so Many of Them!” Musings of an Early Networker
Rich Seifert, M.S.E.E., M.B.A., J.D., President of Networks and Communications Consulting

To Engineer is Human…So is Being Lazy: A Conversation on Network Vulnerability
Charles Kaplan, Senior Technical Director, Office of the CTO, Riverbed

Network & Application Performance Track Presentations

Packet Analysis Presentations

Security Presentations


A Word of Thanks

SharkFest’13 has been a smashing event, if post-conference feedback from attendees is to be believed. For this we must thank all presenters for sharing their expertise and knowledge, thank the Wireshark core developers for making our virgin HACKATHON attempt so worthwhile, thank Laura Chappell for holding her inaugural WCNA Bootcamp in conjunction with our conference, thank the attendees for their generous participation, fellowship and camaraderie, thank the staff for working tirelessly to make this a truly wonderful experience for attendees, thank the UC Berkeley Conference Services group for helping ease the process of event planning, and thank Gerald Combs for giving us such a wonderful reason to get together and lift each other up every year.

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