Network Monitoring and Packet Analysis Tutorial

Dates: 31st October 2019
Location: Honiara, Solomon Islands
Duration: approx 1 to 2 Hours

Synopsis The workshop is a snapshot of some of the labs that are delivered in the 3 or 5 day Network security workshops that are delivered by APNIC. The focus of the workshop is to examine the elements involved in establishing and maintaining security for a network, and building an understanding and familiarity with the operations. This workshop aims at providing attendees a practical approach to:

• Overview of Intrusion Detection systems.
• Packet Analysis using WireShark.
• Session and Signature Analysis using Security Onion (free and open source Linux distribution) for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.

Target Audience

• Engineers, Network Managers and Operators, and Security policy makers who are interested in network security and want to gain an understanding of the intrusion detection and network security monitoring.

Pre-requisites

• It is assumed that participants have a basic understanding of network operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model and TCP/IP.

Workshop topics

• Network security fundamentals
• Packet Analysis
• Network Intrusion detection

Other requirements

• Participants are advised to bring their own laptop computers with high-speed Wi-Fi (802.11a/g/n/ac) and administrative access to system. It is also recommended that laptops have Intel i5 or i7 processor, >=8GB of RAM and 30GB of free hard disk space.

Workshop Items

• Agenda (includes links to presentations and schedule)
• Instructors: Warren Finch(APNIC)