Volatility
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv2
- Programming language
- Python
- Latest release
- 2.6.1
- Latest release date
Project health
Introduction
Volatility is a well-known tool to analyze memory dumps. Interesting about this project is that the founders of this project decided to create a foundation around the project. This foundation is an independent 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that maintains and promotes open source memory forensics with The Volatility Framework.
Usage and audience
Volatility is commonly used for digital forensics. Target users for this tool are security professionals.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 2000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Project is supported by a foundation
Installation
Supported operating systems
Volatility is known to work on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Linux DFIR tool, Linux forensic investigation tool, digital forensics tool, and memory forensics tool.