Symantec Network Forensics: Security Analytics vs. Wireshark

Sophisticated, targeted attacks can take weeks, months or longer to discover and resolve. Incident response teams need tools that quickly uncover the full source and scope of an attack to reduce time-to-resolution, mitigate ongoing risk and further fortify the network. Like a security camera for the network, Blue Coat Security Analytics delivers full network security visibility, advanced network forensics, anomaly detection and real-time content inspection for all network activity.

Wireshark is a open-source network protocol analyzer that enables users to capture and interactively examine the traffic traversing a computer network. It provides deep insights into network communications, making it an essential tool for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and educational purposes. Wireshark is cross-platform, running on Windows, macOS, Linux, and various UNIX systems. Key Features and Functionality: - Comprehensive Protocol Support: Wireshark offers deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with new ones continually being added.