Programming for Digital Forensics

On successful completion of this course those attending should be able to:

• Demonstrate a disciplined approach to software development
• Design a programmatic solution for a problem in a digital forensics context
• Implement a programmatic solution for a problem in digital forensics
• Construct, implement and document an appropriate test strategy for a programmatic solution to a digital forensics problem
• Construct appropriate supporting documentation for a program that performs a digital forensics task
• Justify design decisions and implementation solutions made during the development of a programmatic solution to a digital forensics problem.

This course is taught using the programming language.

• Introduction to programming concepts
• Development environments
• Software development techniques
• Software testing
• Data types
• Operators
• Containers
• String handling
• Sequences and Mappings
• Conditionals
• Loops
• File handling
• Functions
• Exception Handling.

Selected Python Modules:

• OS module
• Hashlib module
• Struct module
• Regular expressions module
• Subprocess module
• SQLite3 module
• Logging module.