Mobile Forensic Investigations: A Guide to Evidence Collection, Analysis, and Presentation, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

16 Advanced Device Analysis: IoT, Wearables, and Drones

As discussed in Chapter 3, the era of IoT and other connected devices is upon every investigator and investigation. Like mobile devices, both iOS and Android, these devices and their associated apps can hold valuable information for the examiner. Digital traces left by the billions of devices within the Internet of Things, wearables, and drones could be the smoking guns in today’s investigations. The “Wild West” once reserved for the examination of data from a mobile phone or a smart device is now the world of these emerging devices. In Chapters 13 and 15, information hidden beneath the “tip of the iceberg data” was discussed as a way to help uncover additional information from both iOS ...