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Practical Mobile Forensics

You're reading from   Practical Mobile Forensics A hands-on guide to mastering mobile forensics for the iOS, Android, and the Windows Phone platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788839198
Length 402 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Satish Bommisetty Satish Bommisetty
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Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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Heather Mahalik Heather Mahalik
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices 3. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices 4. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups 5. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery 6. iOS Forensic Tools 7. Understanding Android 8. Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques 9. Android Data Extraction Techniques 10. Android Data Analysis and Recovery 11. Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering 12. Windows Phone Forensics 13. Parsing Third-Party Application Files 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Android security


Android was designed with a specific focus on security. Android as a platform offers and enforces certain features that safeguard the user data present on the mobile through multi-layered security. There are certain safe defaults that will protect the user, and certain offerings that can be leveraged by the development community to build secure applications. The following are issues that are to be kept in mind while incorporating Android security controls:

  • Protecting user-related data
  • Safeguarding the system resources
  • Making sure that one application cannot access the data of another application

The next few sections will help us understand more about Android's security features and offerings.

Note

A detailed explanation on Android security can be found at: https://source.android.com/security/.

Secure kernel

Linux has evolved as a trusted platform over the years, and Android has leveraged this fact using it as its kernel. The user-based permission model of Linux has in fact worked...

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