WHERE:Knuckleheads Garage - 701 North Montgall Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64120 United States
SecKC’s September meeting is one you simply can’t afford to miss! We’re talking about network sniffing this month, from @CodexMafia’s network related trauma (call 1-800-SYN-ACK-ACK, operators are standing by) all the way to the creator of Wireshark, Gerald Combs, to hear the legendary Kansas City origin story of the world's favorite protocol analyzer.
If you haven’t been to Knuckleheads or want to make sure you’re not stuck on the wrong side of the train, check out the venue info page!
5:00 - 6:00 Make excuses / pre-drinking
6:00 - 6:10 SecKC 101 / announcements / Welcome to SecKC - @TBD
6:15 - 6:25 Open Source News! - @net_code
6:35 - 7:15 My Network Has Commitment Issues - @CodexMafia
AI Debugged Its Feelings Your network promises reliability… but it ghosts you the second things get complicated. Sessions drop randomly, flows wander aimlessly, and telemetry piles up like unread therapy notes. This talk shows how AI can be your partner to dig into the emotional baggage of VPC flow logs, appliance chatter, and ancient network gear — surfacing unstable relationships between systems before they blow up.
7:25 - 8:15 How Kansas City Shaped Wireshark - @Gerald Combs
Before Wireshark became the world’s most widely used network protocol analyzer, it was born out of pure local necessity right here in Kansas City!! Back in 1998, while working as a system administrator at UMKC, Gerald Combs set out to build a tool called Ethereal simply to solve everyday network problems on campus. He had no idea it would spark an open-source revolution used by millions of sysadmins, security analysts, and engineers worldwide.
In this talk, Gerald will share the inside story of Wireshark’s origins - you do NOT want to miss this rare chance to hear straight from the creator of the tool that changed network analysis forever!
8:15 - ??? Mad Beatz by the amazing @j0nny54l1v3
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