Mobile Forensics for Corporate Security

Securing your organizational competitive edge in a wireless environment may prove challenging and difficult to attain with the proliferation of mobile devices as central communication tools. On top of the need to perform thorough investigation on computer systems and data when an incident occurs, organizations must also gain insight in the information stored or deleted from cell phones or Personal Digital Assistants. These are some possible scenarios when a mobile forensics tool can prove handy in the investigation process:

1. Mobile Phones Used as Storage Devices

Memory size in mobile phones is dramatically increasing at a fast pace. 2 GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB internal or external memory elevates mobile phones to the status of potable hard drives. Recovering data stored/deleted on such devices can prove critical to your corporate security.

2. Camera Phones Used as Theft Devices

Very seldom, camera phones are used as means to economic espionage… and their presence is ubiquitous. With 80% of the cell phone installed base having incorporated a camera device, and the accelerating growth of camera resolution, coupled with cell phone’s ability to instantly transmit the data to another device, cell phone are definitely the biggest threat to corporate security.

3. Mobile Phone Data as Evidence in a Court of Law

Cell phone forensics tools can acquire data from most of the mobile devices. Call history, contacts, calendar, to dos, pictures, music or video is all important information which resides in the device memory which can be extracted and presented as evidence in a court of law.

Is your enterprise ready to deal with cell phone related incident response in an effective manner and in least amount of time?
Secure View for Forensics and Secure View Mobile are definitely the tools to help you gain instant access to cell phone data in a forensics sound manner readily to be presented as evidence or used as input to an investigation.