Mobile Forensics Opportunities and Challenges in Data Preservation

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology, which provide access to the public switched telephone network [1]. Nowadays, mobile phone handhelds are everywhere and are used for various applications. Convergence of media provides a great opportunity for mobile users. Yet, there has been a growing rate of challenges according to mobile systems. The advancement in mobile computing systems in one hand and reducing the size of handhelds in the other hand are the main reasons of widely usage of mobiles. Meanwhile, the criminal use of mobile phones has led the need of recovering their data [2]. The derived data from mobiles can be used in forensics according to terms and conditions. In this paper various challenges in mobile forensic is reviewed with a focus on mobile models and categories. Then a fundamental vision on data acquisition and mobile data preservation is presented. In this paper a step by step data collection and preservation is identified.