Practical Mobile Forensics - Second Edition: A hands-on guide to mastering mobile forensics for the iOS, Android, and the Windows Phone platforms

A hands-on guide to master mobile forensics for iOS, Android as well as the Windows Phone platform

About This Book

• Get to grips with the basics of mobile forensics and the various forensic approaches
• Retrieve and analyze the data stored on mobile devices and on the cloud
• A practical guide to leverage the power of mobile forensics on the popular mobile platforms with lots of tips, tricks and caveats

Who This Book Is For

This book is for forensics professionals who are eager to widen their forensics skillset to mobile forensics and acquire data from mobile devices.

What You Will Learn

• Discover the new features in practical mobile forensics
• Understand the architecture and security mechanisms present in iOS and Android platforms
• Identify sensitive files on the iOS and Android platforms
• Set up the forensic environment
• Extract data on the iOS and Android platforms
• Recover data on the iOS and Android platforms
• Understand the forensics of Windows devices
• Explore various third-party application techniques and data recovery techniques

In Detail

Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This book is an update to Practical Mobile Forensics and it delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world.

We will deep dive into mobile forensics techniques in iOS 8 - 9.2, Android 4.4 - 6, and Windows Phone devices. We will demonstrate the latest open source and commercial mobile forensics tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. You will learn how to introspect and retrieve data from cloud, and document and prepare reports for your investigations.

By the end of this book, you will have mastered the current operating systems and techniques so you can recover data from mobile devices by leveraging open source solutions.

Heather Mahalik is the senior director of digital intelligence at Cellebrite. She is a senior instructor and author for the SANS Institute, and she is also the course lead for the FOR585 Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth course. With 18 years of experience in digital forensics, she continues to thrive on smartphone investigations, digital forensics, forensic course development and instruction, and research on application analysis and smartphone forensics.

Rohit Tamma is a senior program manager currently working with Microsoft. With over 10 years of experience in the field of security, his background spans management and technical consulting roles in the areas of application and cloud security, mobile security, penetration testing, and secure coding. Rohit has also co-authored Learning Android Forensics, from Packt, which explain various ways to perform forensics on mobile platforms. You can contact him on Twitter at @RohitTamma.

Satish Bommisetty is a security architect currently working with JDA. His primary areas of interest include web and mobile application security, cloud security, and iOS forensics. He has presented at security conferences, such as ClubHACK and C0C0n. Satish is one of the top bug bounty hunters and is listed in the halls of fame of Google, Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, and more, for identifying and reporting their security vulnerabilities. You can reach him on Twitter at @satishb3.