Can Wireshark be used to capture and analyze PII data in a network?

asked 2022-11-08 02:19:50 +0000

Bee
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Today in healthcare environments lot of sensitive data including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) are being sent over the network. Can Wireshark be used to capture and analyze these data?

answered 2022-11-08 02:34:45 +0000

Guy Harris
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If the data is being sent over a network on which Wireshark can capture traffic (such as an Ethernet), it can capture that data.

Wireshark can display the raw data from the network for all packets it captures; whether it can analyze the data any further depends on whether Wireshark understands the particular protocols being used and whether the data sent over the network is encrypted.

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Would it be possible to get a source/pcap which contains PII data for research purpose?

Bee ( 2022-11-08 23:29:19 +0000 )edit

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