Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Setting up a forensic environment for Android

As a forensic examiner, you may encounter a wide range of mobiles over the course of your investigation. Therefore, it is necessary to have a basic environment set up on top of which you can build based on requirements. It is also very important that you maintain complete control over the environment at all times to avoid any unexpected situations. Setting up a proper lab environment is an essential part of the forensic process. The Android forensic setup usually involves the following steps:

1. Start with a fresh or forensically sterile computer environment. This means that other data is either not present on the system or is contained in a manner that prevents it from contaminating the present ...