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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

Framework summary


Frameworks are incredibly useful to organize multiple collections of script under one "roof," so to speak. There are challenges that come with frameworks; mainly keeping standardized operations through the growth of the project. Our metadata_parser.py framework is in its first iteration and, if we continue to develop it, we may find that the current setup is only suitable on a smaller level.

For example, as we implement more and more features, we might realize that the efficiency of our framework starts to lag. At that point, we would need to go back to the drawing board and determine if we're using the correct data type or the best way to write our plugins and writers.