So Who Needs a GUI in Cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity in a nutshell

If you are a technical specialist in cybersecurity you probably have an aversion to GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). Why? Because they are just to slow and cumbersome. For a specialist, the first place to go on a computer is to find “Terminal” or “Cmd”, and then you locate PowerShell, Node.js or Python, and you are away. The File Explorer is replaced by a command line.

For IoT scanning, we just pop-up a command line, and it’s Python or Shodan command line tools [here]:

In Wireshark, we are often looking for a needle in a haystack, and where the haystack is made up of billions of network packets. So you are either going to crash your system in loading up a GUI, or you’ll get your filter out, and run Wireshark from the command line (Tshark):