An important role of Mobile Forensics
Everyone lives in this world has a phone, and each phone has various apps to help its owner to do a lot of things conveniently so the phone contains lots of private information of the individual including the ID card, financial status, relationship with others, communication records, hobbies, geographical location, something like that. With those info we can make the character profile about its owner. On the other hand, phone becomes the most widespread device to command, control, conduct and record the criminal activity nowadays. The phone knows more about your than yourself.
Variety of Manufacturers Support
The first step in the investigational process of a mobile device is the identification of the phone. That is not as easy as it sounds, as there are hundreds of device manufacturers, each one introducing on average 15 new versions of mobile devices per year.
Variety of APPs Support
Apps often store most information in SQLite databases, so those databases will contain a major part of the case data. Mobile forensics toolkits decode databases automatically and display them in a structured way, however depending on the toolkit, only between a few dozen and a few hundred different apps are supported, which is a comparatively small number, as there are more than 5 million apps available in the market.
Security Mechanisms
Security mechanisms are used on mobile devices to protect data. These mechanisms range from handset user locks, to SIM card PINs and PUKs and device encryption. A device locked by PIN or Password might be unlocked either through an appropriate software program or by information from the owner of the device. Encryption goes deeper, securing data at a software and/or hardware level – and is usually very hard to decrypt.
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