To trust or not to trust: The relationship between you your mobile forensics tools

Описание: Webcast Description: Lets face it, when it comes to you and your smartphone forensic tool, there is no such a thing as a monogamous relationship. There are a plethora of mobile forensics tools available to make your job easier. And best of all, you get to pick the one to help you find what you are looking for. One might think that having these tools right on your fingertips is the key to finding key evidence, right? Think again. In this webcast, we will take a look at the strengths and the pitfalls of mobile forensics tools, we will show you when to trust or not trust their results but most importantly, how to rely on your own skills to conduct successful mobile device investigations.

Speaker: Heather Mahalik

Biography:
To say that digital forensics is central to Heather Mahalik’s life is quite the understatement. Heather has worked on high-stress and high-profile cases, investigating everything from child exploitation to Osama Bin Laden’s media. She has helped law enforcement, eDiscovery firms, and the federal government extract and manually decode artifacts used in solving investigations around the world. All told she has more than 14 years of experience in digital forensics, including eight years focused on mobile forensics – there’s hardly a device or platform she hasn’t researched or examined or a commercial tool she hasn’t used.

These days Heather is the Principal Forensic Scientist at ManTech CARD. At SANS Institute she is a senior instructor and the course lead for FOR585: Advanced Smartphone Forensics. As if that isn’t a full enough schedule, Heather also maintains www.smarterforensics.com, where she blogs and hosts work from the digital forensics community. She is the co-author of Practical Mobile Forensics (1st and 2nd editions), currently a best seller from Pack't Publishing, and the technical editor for Learning Android Forensics from Pack't Publishing.

Heather’s background in digital forensics and e-discovery covers smartphone, mobile device, and Windows forensics, including acquisition, analysis, advanced exploitation, vulnerability discovery, malware analysis, application reverse-engineering, and manual decoding, as well as instruction on mobile devices, smartphones, and computers covering Windows, Linux and Macintosh operating systems.

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