CACE Technologies Celebrates Wireshark(R) Milestone.The Open Source Project Formerly Known as Ethereal ethereal /ethe·re·al/ (e-ther´e-il) 1. pertaining to, prepared with, containing, or resembling ether. 2. evanescent; delicate. e·the·re·al adj. 1. Turns 10 DAVIS Davis, city (1990 pop. 46,209), Yolo co., central Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1917. It is an education center with light industry; machinery, processed foods, and computer equipment are produced. The extensive Univ. , Calif. -- CACE CACE Center for Adult and Continuing Education CACE Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education (now Commercialism in Education Research Unit) CACE Canadian Association for Community Education Technologies, Inc., developer of tools to enhance the Wireshark user experience and primary sponsor of the Wireshark development effort, today celebrates the 10th anniversary of the inception of the project that spawned the world's most popular and widely-deployed network analyzer A specialized hardware device or software in a desktop or laptop computer that captures packets transmitted in a network for routine inspection and problem detection. Also called a "sniffer," "packet sniffer," "packet analyzer," "traffic analyzer" and "protocol analyzer," the network . To mark the day, Gerald Combs Gerald Combs, a computer science graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is the creator and lead developer of Ethereal, now Wireshark, which was first released in 1998. , Ethereal/Wireshark project founder, CACE, and Wireshark University have announced the roll-out of the Wireshark Certification Program and plans for the SHARKFEST '09 conference, which will take place on the Stanford campus in June of 2009. "In my wildest dreams, I never imagined that Wireshark would be as enthusiastically received as it has been over the past ten years," states Gerald Combs. "I have watched the number of downloads grow from a few thousand a month to well over 300,000 today. The success of the analyzer analyzer /ana·ly·zer/ (an´ah-li?zer) 1. a Nicol prism attached to a polarizing apparatus which extinguishes the ray of light polarized by the polarizer. 2. is due to an incredibly devoted group of developer contributors around the globe who work closely with me to continually add new features and capabilities to the tool to maintain its relevance and usefulness in modern, evolving network environments. One of the reasons we created the SHARKFEST event is to bring them together and show our appreciation for their efforts." SHARKFEST '09, just announced officially, will be the second occurrence of what is intended to be an annual conference for Wireshark developers and users. This year, as with the inaugural event, there will be three program tracks: Developer, Advanced User, and General User. Unlike last year, there will be fewer sessions per track, allowing more time for presentations and discussions, and duplications of some of the more popular sessions. There will also be more panel and open discussion forums. John Bruno, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CACE, offers, "We're very excited about the next SHARKFEST conference. We learned a lot from the first one, and will incorporate the feedback received from last year's attendees to make this an even better event. The Stanford campus will be the perfect venue, allowing us to increase the number of participants while maintaining a richly educational association with our conference." The development of a certification program for Wireshark also speaks to the maturity of the project. Certification programs are prompted by a demand from the user base to gain professional recognition for their knowledge of, and skill with, a particular product. Wireshark now joins the ranks of many commercial analyzers with certification programs that test the expertise of their user base and award recognition to those who prove capable of successfully completing a process that vets their knowledge of these tools. Laura Chappell, the creator of the program, is an industry maven, world-class packet analyst, network troubleshooting Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving. It is the systematic search for the source of a problem so that it can be solved. Troubleshooting is often a process of elimination - eliminating potential causes of a problem. , security, and forensics See computer forensics. diva, and lauded trainer and consultant. To learn more about the Wireshark Certification program, visit www.WiresharkU.com/certification. About CACE Technologies CACE Technologies is an innovative group of product designers and engineers specialized in networking solutions that enhance the Wireshark experience. Experts in Windows and Linux device driver and network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. tools development, CACE's core engineering team includes the creators of Wireshark and WinPcap, premier open-source tools for packet capture and protocol analysis. For information on our tools and services, visit www.cacetech.com. Trademarks property of their respective holders |
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