Wireshark has now evolved to become the de facto standard for checking health and security at a packet level. As an open source Graphical User Interface (GUI) network package capturing tool, Wireshark enables teams to monitor network traffic, learn protocols and packet basics as they also troubleshoot network problems. Together, Combs and Degioanni launched Wireshark in 2006.

The open source users can count on the fact that Wireshark will remain an important industry standard for a long time and that its development will continue to be driven by the community.” Brief history of WiresharkĮthereal, the predecessor of Wireshark, was originally created in 1998 by Gerald Combs, director of open source projects at Sysdig. “Moving Wireshark to a foundation guarantees that the core developers own and operate Wireshark. “We want Wireshark to be set up for long-term success, which includes ensuring the health and independence of the project,” said Loris Degioanni, founder and CTO of Sysdig. The move into the Wireshark Foundation donates Wireshark to the community and (hopefully) ensures that Wireshark has a long-term home that goes beyond a specific company or sponsor. Most recently, in January 2022, Sysdig assumed responsibility for the project. Over the years, Wireshark has been sponsored by several companies. This summer, Wireshark will celebrate its 25th anniversary as an open source project. The nonprofit will now be home to SharkFest, Wireshark’s developer and user conference, as well as the Wireshark source code and assets. Sysdig, as Wireshark's current corporate sponsor, encouraged the creation of the new Wireshark Foundation. Wireshark is a traffic protocol analyzer with more than 2,000 contributors and over 60 million downloads in the last five years. With such a foundational explanation needed to explain how we lock down cloud containers, are we safe now or do we need to continue to shore up this space? That ‘shore’ pun could be more telling than initially intended, Sysdig has now announced a new foundation that will serve as the long-term custodian of the Wireshark open source project.

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