Welcome to Shark Week: A Guide for Getting Started with Wireshark and TShark

This article is a hands-on primer for analyzing packet captures with Wireshark and TShark, detailing recommended settings (time display, name resolution), capture and output strategies, the difference between capture and display filters, following TCP streams, exporting HTTP objects, and extracting fields on the command line for aggregation and telemetry. It also stresses OPSEC (e.g., avoiding reverse DNS lookups), keeping tools updated, and leveraging TShark to scale network forensics beyond the GUI.