Practical Mobile Forensics,: A hands-on guide to mastering mobile forensics for the iOS, Android 3rd Edition

Understand how to effectively investigate, analyze, and retrieve data from iOS, Android, and Windows devices and explore a variety of mobile forensics tools

Key Features
Perform simple to complex mobile forensics techniques
Retrieve and analyze data stored not only on mobile devices but also in the cloud and other connected mediums
Learn to apply mobile forensics on popular mobile platforms by exploring real-life scenarios, and useful tips, tricks, and caveats

Book Description
Mobile phone forensics involves investigating and extracting data through a systematic approach. With this book, you'll explore different mobile forensics tools and data recovery techniques.

You'll discover up-to-date mobile platforms and the most recent techniques for investigating mobile devices. As you progress, you'll delve into mobile forensics techniques for devices using iOS 9-11, Android 7-8, and Windows 10. Next, the book will guide you through the latest open source and commercial mobile forensics tools, which will enable you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. In later chapters, you will learn how to inspect and retrieve data from the cloud, and even document and prepare reports of your investigations.

By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the current operating systems and have learned relevant techniques to recover data from mobile devices with the help of open source solutions.

What you will learn
Discover new techniques in practical mobile forensics
Understand the architecture and security mechanisms of iOS and Android platforms
Identify sensitive files on iOS and Android platforms
Understand how to set up a forensic environment
Extract data from iOS and Android platforms
Recover data on iOS and Android platforms
Get to grips with the forensics of Windows devices
Explore a variety of third-party application techniques and data recovery techniques

Who this book is for
If you are a forensics professional and are looking to add mobile forensics to your skillset, then this book is for you. Basic understanding of digital forensics practices will be helpful.