Forensic-Ready Secure iOS Apps for Jailbroken iPhones

Apple’s iOS is one of the major players in the smartphone market and it restricts installation of apps which are not from Apple app store. Users often resort to jailbreak their iPhones to break free from these restrictions. Considering jailbreaking iPhones is legal in the US; more devices are expected to be jailbroken in future. Jailbroken iPhones are making their way into enterprises, which allow Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), but these devices are either barred or restricted by Mobile Device Management (MDM) softwares which consider them as a security risk. In this work, we have designed a solution (iSecureRing) to secure mobile apps and to preserve date and time stamps of events to handle any security incidents in the jailbroken iPhones. To the best of our knowledge, iSecureRing is the first forensic ready mobile app security solution to secure an application running in an unsecure environment within the enterprise environment.