Content Industry: Public Safety

Advanced Mobile Acquisition for Android

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As the development of smartphone software advances it becomes increasingly difficult to gain privileged access to the device. On devices that are locked, this often prevents an investigator from being able to extract any data. To help you acquire the most complete forensic image as possible, Magnet AXIOM supports several advanced mobile acquisition methods that … Continued

Finding Mobile Evidence to Present in Court

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Finding and analyzing relevant data from unsupported apps, staying informed on new and updated apps and artifacts, and password protection on encrypted devices, are all significant challenges for examiners working cases on which 75 percent of relevant evidence comes from smartphones. Whether examiners can find and analyze all relevant data quickly enough impacts whether they … Continued

Consistent, User-Friendly Mobile Forensics Results

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Smartphones provide evidence in virtually all the violent crimes MPD detectives investigate, including Internet crimes against children (ICAC) and homicides. The drive to save victims and bring justice to their families makes it especially compelling for forensic examiners to overcome their main challenges, including password protection on encrypted devices, finding and analyzing relevant data from … Continued

Hide, Seek, and Find: Memory Analysis for Fast Incident Response

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Few incident responders dispute the importance of memory analysis in incident response. Not only is memory acquisition faster than acquiring the hard drives of multiple (even hundreds of) computers; it’s often the only source of evidence in an ongoing attack. Frequently, memory contains valuable traces of system activity even when the attacker takes steps to … Continued