Question

n this week's discussion, you were introduced to Wireshark and GlassWire, two free network monitor & security tools. Compare and contrast these two tools. explaining the benefits and features of each, then decide which of these two choices you would prefer to use if you were the Network Manager. Explain why you made your decision.

Answer 1

Answer:  

Wireshark and GassWire are both network monitoring and security tools. But by contrast, Wireshark is a raw packet sniffer listening on the interface of activities in a network line, while the Glasswire uses the dashboard relay approach to act as firewalls to suspicious activities in a network system.

Explanation:

Wireshark and GlassWire by comparison are both network monitoring and security tools. By contrast, Wireshark as network monitoring and security tool works as a raw packet sniffer listening on the interface of activities in a network line, while the Glasswire on the contrary uses the dashboard relay approach to act as firewalls that creates alerts for suspicious activities in a network system.

As a Network Manager, I would prefer to use the Glasswire network monitoring software because of its dashboard interface that avails me the opportunity to modify my firewalls settings. Besides, it is gives me the privileges I seek to know about suspicious activities before acting on them as compared to the Wireshark when monitoring a net