While studying network analyzers and creating a popular open source tool while working on his PhD in Italy, Loris was invited to the United States to do research on packets, which is where he met Gerald.

Continuing to maintain the project’s health is of the utmost importance considering the widespread adoption of Wireshark. Log4j spotlighted the importance of maintaining open source projects. The Log4j and OpenSSL vulnerabilities have shown that large and small organizations rely on open source projects and major issues arise when critical vulnerabilities are found in these tools. The Importance of Healthy Open Source Projects Our goal at Sysdig is to empower Wireshark.” This move ensures Wireshark will continue to innovate. “I am excited to be reunited with Gerald and to advance the project in the same way Sysdig supports Falco and the Sysdig open source project. You can guarantee most of the Fortune 2000 are actively using Wireshark,” said Loris Degioanni, CTO and Founder, Sysdig. “It’s amazing to see the lasting heritage of Wireshark, led by Gerald. Adoption is broad as Wireshark can be used consistently across nearly any environment, including Windows, Linux, and macOS, among others. With more than 1,900 contributors, the number of integrations continues to expand. Teams can filter through that traffic to find evidence from an incident. Wireshark takes packet captures and saves them for later viewing. For network admins, Wireshark is the de facto standard for checking health and security at a microscopic level. Wireshark is an open source GUI network package capturing tool that enables teams to monitor network traffic, learn protocols and packet basics, and troubleshoot network problems. With Gerald joining, Sysdig assumes responsibility for sponsoring and managing the Wireshark community and extending Wireshark’s use cases to the cloud ecosystem. Gerald joins Sysdig’s open source team, which is a significant contributor to many open source projects, including Falco, eBPF, Sysdig open source, Sysdig Inspect, and other tools and libraries. Loris Degioanni, CTO and Founder of Sysdig, partnered with Gerald to launch Wireshark more than 15 years ago. Wireshark, an open source tool, is the world’s foremost and widely-used traffic protocol analyzer with more than 60 million downloads in the last 5 years, an average of one million per month. SAN FRANCISCO - JanuSysdig, Inc., the unified container and cloud security leader, today announced that Gerald Combs, the Wireshark creator and project leader, has joined the company. Security and visibility for cloud applications

Using wireshark to find vulnerabilities