Installing Wireshark

After some soulful debate, I decided to move this section to the beginning of this chapter. I had planned it to be in the following chapter, but after reviewing this, I felt that it flowed nicely with the plans ahead. That being said, let's jump right into it. Wireshark is the de facto tool that's used by network engineers and security personnel alike to monitor all the bits of data moving through the network. When an issue arises, the first thing the individual or team does is open their laptop and start up Wireshark. I cannot emphasize this enough; Wireshark is fundamentally one of the most important tools that is used by the security industry and ironically, people seldom qualify it as a security tool. Wireshark is an absolute must for the proverbial tool bag that you are assembling for a pentesting engagement.

Go to https://www.wireshark.org/#download to be taken to Wireshark's stable release section. At the time of writing, this stable release...