Part 1:Network Fundamentals

This part will serve as a primer and introduction to the book. It will focus on the lab setup first, and then go into a quick refresher on networking and cryptography. It will also enable you to perform practical analysis of network traffic. It will teach you how to capture traffic, analyze it, and even spoof it if needed. It will also introduce additional hacking tools that are used for this purpose.

This part contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Networking Primer
• Chapter 2, Capturing and Analyzing Network Traffic
• Chapter 3, A Cryptography Primer