"CloudShark Capture Profiles: Streamline Packet Analysis for Your Team"

CloudShark capture profiles are one of the most powerful ways to tailor your analysis view, significantly decreasing the time it takes to solve problems. Your column choices, decode rules, and decryption settings all apply towards making your job easier. In CloudShark 3.7, the new profile manager not only lets you fine-tune your own work, but revolutionizes how your team works with captures - building a curated base of expert profiles that evolves over time and helping all of your analysts and engineers.

Join Tom for a special webinar highlighting profile management in CloudShark.

"How to Monitor Encrypted Network Traffic Without Losing Visibility" - Webinar

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Your speaker - Erik Hjelmstad

In order to ensure networks are efficient, we need to monitor all traffic flowing through the wire. There are many tools to help, but they all rely on being able to read and decode network traffic. When the network traffic is encrypted, these tools provide limited value.

"Network Visibility Architecture Explained: Packet Brokers & Monitoring Basics"

 Join this NDP-TV podcast to learn what a visibility architecture and packet broker are and how they can help you optimize network data capture and analysis.

Summary:

Network visibility is an often overlooked but critically important activity for IT.

"Age Discrimination at Work: Why the 'Dead at 45' Myth Is Wrong" (by Paul W. Smith)

 

When you consider the dreadful truth about food poisoning, you would expect a government-mandate for labeling the stuff we eat. There isn’t one. The FDA does require that baby formula have a “Use by…” date, but once you’re off the bottle, you’re on your own.

The lack of a legal requirement hasn’t kept food manufacturers from dating their products, but the systems they use, and the motives behind them, have only created confusion.

"Netsh Commands Guide: Manage Windows IPv4 Settings from the Command Line"

Note: I just tested, and this still works in windows 11 

I always encourage technical staff to get comfortable at the command line. This is for a lot of reasons: 

• More efficient than a gui  
• Learn about the device operation  
• Many times you can get information not available in the gui  
• A lot faster when working remotely over slow links  
• You can script common tasks 

A great example is when teaching Wireshark, I spend time on tshark/dumpcap at the command line.

The Importance of Staying Alert: Lessons Every IT Professional Should Know

 

In this little write-up, I wanted to share my latest experience at a customer site.

As part of troubleshooting, I always suggest we ‘clean-up’ and refresh or validate their documentation. I can’t remember how many times this simple exercise resulted in actually ‘fixing’ the problem. I love watching the look of confusion in the customer’s face as they mutter, “that’s not supposed to be connected to that”, “this was supposed to be decommissioned a long time ago”, or the ever popular, “who plugged this in?”.