PowerShell and Python Together : Targeting Digital Investigations Bring together the Python programming language and Microsoft’s PowerShell to address digital investigations and create state of the art solutions for administrators IT personnel cyber response teams and forensic investigators. You will learn how to join PowerShells robust set of commands and access to the internals of both the MS Windows desktop and enterprise devices and Pythons rich scripting environment allowing for the rapid development of new tools for investigation automation and deep analysis. PowerShell and Python Together takes a practical approach that provides an entry point and level playing field for a wide range of individuals small companies researchers academics students and hobbyists to participate. What You’ll Learn: Leverage the internals of PowerShell for: digital investigation incident response and forensics Leverage Python to exploit already existing PowerShell CmdLets and aliases to build new automation and analysis capabilities Create combined PowerShell and Python applications that provide: rapid response capabilities to cybersecurity events assistance in the precipitous collection of critical evidence (from the desktop and enterprise) and the ability to analyze reason about and respond to events and evidence collected across the enterprise Chapter 1: An Introduction to PowerShell for Investigators Chapter 2: PowerShell Pipelining Chapter 3: PowerShell Scripting Targeting Investigation Chapter 4: Python and Live Investigation Acquisition Chapter 5: PowerShell Python Investigation Example Chapter 6: Launching Python from PowerShell Chapter 7: Loose Ends and Future Considerations Appendix: Challenge Problem Solutions