All You Need to Know About Mobile Forensics

What is the best way to get started in mobile forensics?
Typically, you start in the field in general and get to specialize in mobile forensics. Mobile forensics has different challenges than computer forensics, as the evidence often changes, so there is a lot to stay on top of. You really have to like tracking trends and have patience, as each mobile device will process information in different ways. I have written an article about how to get started in the field of digital forensics, which is a good first step. 

What is the mobile forensic process?
A mobile forensics process is where you combine the science with the art of creativity required to do the job. The process is the set of steps that you follow with each examination, no matter what type of device you must process. 

What are the most important certificates?
There are a lot of different certificates out there, and different regions of the world will value different certificates. I usually recommend the IACIS certification for general knowledge and a specialty certification with various vendors that goes deeper than tool training into the details of the data and how it is collected.

What tools are most wanted?
In our lab, we always have more than one tool, and they go through a testing and ranking process. The top ranking is our tier one tool in our lab, which is the E3 Forensic Platform. We will then go to our secondary tool....