In CS, there are several areas that you can customize and fine-tune, such as account information, managing your uploads, creating collections, and enforcing quotas. To get to the Preferences menu, go to the top right-hand side of the screen, where there is a drop-down menu that allows you to set your preferences, as follows:

• Account: Here, you can view subscription information. For example, mine is a Hosted Trial plan. It offers the option to start a subscription when you are ready.
• Capture Index Preferences: This is where you can customize your column headers. As shown in the following screenshot, you can use the default layout, remove any of the visible fields as shown, or drag additional columns in where you would like them:

When done with your selections, select Save, and CS will rearrange the columns according to your preferences.

• Uploads: CS is designed to be a collaboration tool, so it is assumed you will have interactivity, and other team members will have access to the files you have loaded in CS. The Uploads preferences are where you tell CS to what group you want to assign the files you have uploaded, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once they are loaded, you can further restrict what the group members can do with the files, either read-only or read/write. In addition, CS can provide guest access to your uploaded files.

• Decode Window: When viewing a capture file, this is where you can enable settings to colorize the packet list or show any annotations.
• API Tokens: You may have your own tools that you want to interact with CS. Here is where you can find the application program interface (API) token so that CS can interact with your software.
• Usage Quotas: Packet captures can consume a great deal of storage. This preference menu choice will list how much storage you have used out of your allocation (the trial provides 2 GB of storage), along with how many uploads you have completed out of your allocation (the trial provides a limit of 500 files). If you are in danger of exceeding the limits, there is a link to upgrade.

• Collections: To organize your captures, you can create collections that can group and share a set of captures that will appear on a separate landing page, as shown in the following screenshot:

The capture collections are similar to a folder, where you can house similar captures together.

After modifying your preferences, you're ready to upload your captures, to share with your team, or the world, as discussed next.