Practical Mobile Forensics: Forensically investigate and analyze modern iOS and Android devices, Edition 5

• Acquire and analyze artifacts across devices, cloud ecosystems, and backups
• Apply advanced forensic techniques to recover deleted data from mobile devices
• Understand the limitations of modern mobile forensics and approaches to navigate them

• Understand mobile security architectures, including encryption, sandboxing, and data protection mechanisms
• Perform advanced data acquisition and extraction from modern iOS and Android devices
• Identify and interpret key forensic artifacts such as messages, call logs, app data, and system databases
• Work with SQLite databases, WAL files, and encoded application data formats
• Use both open-source and commercial forensic tools in real-world investigation workflows
• Understand the limitations of modern mobile forensics and practical approaches to overcome them

This book is designed for digital forensic practitioners and investigators looking to build foundational skills in mobile forensics across modern iOS and Android platforms. It is also valuable for security professionals, incident responders, and researchers interested in understanding mobile device internals, application data, and forensic artifact analysis. A foundational understanding of digital forensics and basic familiarity with operating systems will help readers get the most from this book, though prior forensic experience is not mandatory.