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Learning Python for Forensics

By : Chapin Bryce
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Learning Python for Forensics

By: Chapin Bryce

Overview of this book

This book will illustrate how and why you should learn Python to strengthen your analysis skills and efficiency as you creatively solve real-world problems through instruction-based tutorials. The tutorials use an interactive design, giving you experience of the development process so you gain a better understanding of what it means to be a forensic developer. Each chapter walks you through a forensic artifact and one or more methods to analyze the evidence. It also provides reasons why one method may be advantageous over another. We cover common digital forensics and incident response scenarios, with scripts that can be used to tackle case work in the field. Using built-in and community-sourced libraries, you will improve your problem solving skills with the addition of the Python scripting language. In addition, we provide resources for further exploration of each script so you can understand what further purposes Python can serve. With this knowledge, you can rapidly develop and deploy solutions to identify critical information and fine-tune your skill set as an examiner.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Learning Python for Forensics
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter continued where we left off in Chapter 1, Now For Something Completely Different, helping build a solid Python foundation for later chapters. We covered advanced data types and object-oriented programming, developed our first scripts, and understood Traceback messages. At this point, you should start to become comfortable with Python. We highly recommend you practice and experiment by either testing out ideas in the interactive prompt or modifying the scripts we developed. Visit http://packtpub.com/books/content/support to download the code bundle for this chapter.

As we move away from theory and look into the core part of the book, we will start with simple scripts and work towards increasingly more complicated programs. This should allow a natural development of understanding programming and skills. In the next chapter, you will learn how to parse the setupapi.dev.log file on Windows systems to identify USB installation times.