Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] I am just starting to learn Wireshark seriously
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From: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:37:20 -0700
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 05:22:47PM +0000, pogiako wrote:

> What's with packet analysis? What's cool with it?
> 
> I am interested to be a "Certified Wireshark Network Analyst". It 
> seems cool to be good at Wireshark/packet analysis. I'm wondering, 
> what jobs could I land on once I get the Wireshark certificate? I 
> asked my professor regarding this and he told me I could work in 
> digital forensics?

Network packet analyzers such as Wireshark are a tool used by persons in 
a variety of IT occupations.  I'm a network engineer.  Our IT security 
folks also use it regularly.