The book is an easy-to-follow guide with clear instructions on various mobile forensic techniques. The chapters and the topics within are structured for a smooth learning curve, which will swiftly empower you to master mobile forensics. If you are a budding forensic analyst, consultant, engineer, or a forensic professional wanting to expand your skillset, this is the book for you. The book will also be beneficial to those with an interest in mobile forensics or wanting to find data lost on mobile devices. It will be helpful to be familiar with forensics in general but no prior experience is required to follow this book.
What you will learn
Learn different approaches to practical mobile forensics
Understand the architecture and security mechanisms present in iOS and Android platforms
Identify sensitive files on iOS and Android platforms
Set up the forensic environment
Extract data on iOS and Android platforms
Recover data on iOS and Android platforms
Understand the forensics of Windows and BlackBerry devices
Excellent guide to not only useful tools to analyze and recover data from mobile devices, iOS, Android, and MS are all covered. While I felt restricted as the author used Mac OS for most of the operations for the iOS devices, some windows applications that are open source would be nice to have. If this is for a professional company then the $1,500 price tag for one of the software options are not a major concern.You'll certainly walk away with a good understanding of how the different OS versions store the data and how to access it rather quickly, having rooted devices makes this task much easier. Part of gathering data is knowing where to look and this book not only gives you that information, but takes it a step further and gives you some handy database related commands to extract the data you'd most likely be interested in.All in all I give this book 5 starts because it did have a lot of solid information despite the lack luster for lower cost software solutions. If you're looking to get into data recovery for mobile platforms or do the forensic work, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of this book already.Publisher Link: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/practical-mobile-forensics
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Michele McKenzieMar 09, 2015
5
Great book, bought it to do my final year project on Mobile phone forensics, info on the phone specifications and Oxygen are great!
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ScribeDec 04, 2014
5
This is an excellent forensics overview of where important files can be found on multiple mobile platforms. One of the biggest challenges for a mobile examiner is the ability to shift gears to a different operating system and perform a competent exam on short notice. this book is useful for the main file/data locations where key info lives. It is not meant for a deep and detailed analysis of specific operating system point release nuances, but there are other references that do offer a deep dive when needed. The title is exactly what the book does. It is a useful reference.
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M. EskridgeMar 25, 2015
5
Great item at a great price. Thank you.
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OsramOct 22, 2014
5
Excellent book. It is a very reliable guide either for professional or for people interested in a solid a reliable guide to data recovery and mobile forensic.Some tools used are expensive and more suitable for professional companies, nonetheless non professional users wil beneficiate of the clear methodology framework applied for all different OS examined: iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows.
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