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Amber — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:43:47 +0000

My First Blog as a Cybersecurity Beginner: Learning Networking with Wireshark.

Amber ・ Jan 4

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My First Blog as a Cybersecurity Beginner: Learning Networking with Wireshark.

Amber — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:42:34 +0000

Hey! Its Amber👋
Welcome to my first blog .Let me introduce myself first, I am a second year Computer Science student and passionate about Cybersecurity. Here I will be sharing my personal notes and ideas while I am learning things out myself.As an introvert I hardly ask for mentorship from college professors so the only mentor I got for myself is Chat-GPT.I’m honestly excited (and a little scared) to begin this journey, so yeah — let’s start. Make sure you read till the end 😉.
Firstly I started with Networking **because everyone out there said learn networking concepts well if you want to get into cybersecurity so here I am. Learning networking concepts, and along with that, I explored a tool that’s actually used in the industry to capture and analyze network traffic — **Wireshark. .To understand how network traffic analysis work it helped me a lot. Initially I was too confused with protocols and IP addresses
So many protocols.
So many IP addresses.
Packets flying everywhere like chaos.
random data in different Colors.
but not to lie hands on this tool made it super easy for me to learn networking concepts.
Now I could actually see

How packets move
Which protocol is doing what
How communication really happens behind the scenes
And in between all this what I realized is "Networking isnt about memorizing protocols, its about understanding the communication".
Right now, I’m focusing on:
Understanding common protocols (HTTP, TCP, DNS, etc.)
Practicing more packet analysis
Strengthening my networking basics before jumping deeper into cybersecurity.
If you are a beginner like me and feeling overwhelmed by networking or any concept, just know that Confusion is part of the process and You don’t need to understand everything on day one.
If you are already into cybersecurity or networking then do let me know Did you start with networking too?
Or did you jump straight into security tools?
I would love to hear how your journey started.Alright lets just keep it short for my first blog hope you all liked it. Thank You!

My First Blog as a Cybersecurity Beginner: Learning Networking with Wireshark.

Amber — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:22:13 +0000

Hey! Its Amber👋
Welcome to my first blog .Let me introduce myself first, I am a second year Computer Science student and passionate about Cybersecurity. Here I will be sharing my personal notes and ideas while I am learning things out myself.As an introvert I hardly ask for mentorship from college professors so the only mentor I got for myself is Chat-GPT.I’m honestly excited (and a little scared) to begin this journey, so yeah — let’s start. Make sure you read till the end 😉.
Firstly I started with Networking because everyone out there said learn networking concepts well if you want to get into cybersecurity so here I am. Learning networking concepts, and along with that, I explored a tool that’s actually used in the industry to capture and analyze network traffic — Wireshark. .To understand how network traffic analysis work it helped me a lot. Initially I was too confused with protocols and IP addresses
So many protocols.
So many IP addresses.
Packets flying everywhere like chaos.
random data in different Colors.
but not to lie hands on this tool made it super easy for me to learn networking concepts.
Now I could actually see

How packets move
Which protocol is doing what
How communication really happens behind the scenes
And in between all this what I realized is "Networking isnt about memorizing protocols, its about understanding the communication".
Right now, I’m focusing on:
Understanding common protocols (HTTP, TCP, DNS, etc.)
Practicing more packet analysis
Strengthening my networking basics before jumping deeper into cybersecurity.
If you are a beginner like me and feeling overwhelmed by networking or any concept, just know that Confusion is part of the process and You don’t need to understand everything on day one.
If you are already into cybersecurity or networking then do let me know Did you start with networking too?
Or did you jump straight into security tools?
I would love to hear how your journey started. Alright lets just keep it short for my first blog hope you all liked it. Thank You!