This exercise puts Module 2's concepts into practice: you will capture live traffic on a lab network, apply display filters to isolate specific protocols, and identify a deliberately planted issue — a login form submitting credentials in plaintext over HTTP. By the end, you should be comfortable capturing, filtering, and reading a packet trace well enough to spot a real security issue rather than just recognizing the concept in theory.
Analogy🏏Cricket
💪 Think of it like fitness: injuries follow a predictable chain — poor warm-up, then form breakdown, then compensation, then the actual tear — and a good physio catalogs where each patient's chain can be interrupted early, rather than only treating the tear afterward. MITRE ATT&CK is the sports-medicine literature of intrusions: a public catalog of every observed breakdown pattern, organized by the stage it serves — how attackers get in, how they escalate, how they extract. Coaches worldwide describe an athlete's risk in that shared vocabulary. This reveals ATT&CK's real value: intrusions become a sequence you can interrupt at stage two, not a disaster you discover at stage five.