Introduction to Mobile Forensics

There is no doubt that mobile devices have become part of our lives and have revolutionized the way we do most of our activities. As a result, a mobile device is now a huge repository that holds sensitive and personal information about its owner. This has, in turn, led to the rise of mobile device forensics, a branch of digital forensics that deals with retrieving data from a mobile device. This book will help you understand forensic techniques on three main platforms—Android, iOS, and Windows. We will go through various methods that can be used to collect evidence from different mobile devices.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• The need for mobile forensics
• Understanding mobile forensics
• Challenges in mobile forensics
• The mobile phone evidence extraction process
• Practical mobile forensic approaches
• Potential evidence stored on mobile phones
• Examination and analysis
• Rules of evidence
• Good forensic practices