Welcome to Introduction to computer network analysis!

To introduce students to methods for identifying and managing computer network conversations and traffic. A trendy and important topic today given how much of our lives are on and spent online. This course gives participants the skills need to make informed decisions about who is able to communicate and exchange information with their computer. This will be achieved by learning a number of skills, which include but are not limited to the following:

• We will cover these skills​

• Describing how network connections are made and terminated​

• Identify outgoing and incoming connections from your computer​

• Identify the applications, on your computer, which start these connections​

• Manipulating the flow of network traffic to/from your computer

  
  

The workshop is approximately one hour long and these are some prerequisites before you begin. Simply download and install all the programs provided in the list that follows. Other than this you will need a computer, an internet connection and two hours of your time to get started.

You will NOT be required to purchase or pay for any additional software to follow along with this workshop. We will only make use of free or open-source applications.

Many thanks for your interest and I trust you will find the material highly useful and digestible.