Students completing this course will gain in-depth knowledge in the following areas:
- Appreciating how a Digital or Mobile Forensic Investigator processes cell phones, PDAs, and any other mobile devices that is able to store data and communicate
- Covering elements of Mobile Device Hacking such as the latest genre of attacks from simple password cracking to sophisticated injection of rootkits / remote spy monitoring
- Investigating the processes involved in Mobile Forensic Acquisitions, Analysis and Reporting of Mobile Device evidence with detailed coverage on some the more popular devices such as Apple iDevices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch / iPods), BlackBerrys, Windows 7 & Android Based Devices
- Defending common attacks through Mobile Device Security Hardening, understanding what works best for corporate users
- Analyzing techniques to forensically preserve, acquire and examine data stored on mobile devices and their associated data
- Developing a thorough understanding of how mobile devices are hacked
- Familiarizing custom extraction techniques used on various mobile devices and their platforms to retrieve save several types of personal information such as contacts, photos, calendars and notes
- Examining the extracted data and utilizing these results for internal investigations or in civil/criminal litigation
- Applying the forensic industry’s best practices, techniques and tools required for obtaining and utilizing digital evidence on mobile devices
- Handling common challenges faced in the field of Digital Mobile forensics