iOS forensics

Abstract

Nowadays, where the needs of people have changed and increased a lot, smartphones and tablets have spread into the corporate environment and show no sign of receding. This means users will be performing work on devices other than the traditional organizational desktops or laptops running windows operating system. Since smartphones and tablets are equipped with more hardware and upgraded software than ever before they are being used to surf the internet, run different and heavy applications, transfer data and communicate with corporate mail servers. A large section of these devices are running Apple’s iOS and the ability to perform accurate and clear forensics on these devices will be interesting due to the privacy of a device like iPhone is. This final postgraduate thesis will dive into the special field of iOS forensics and will take an in-depth look at methods that analyze the iPhone in an official legal manner.