Rohit Tamma - Practical Mobile Forensics: Forensically investigate and analyze iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices, 4th Edition

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Second edition: May 2016
Third edition: January 2018
Fourth edition: April 2020

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Rohit Tamma is a senior program manager currently working with Microsoft. With over 10 years of experience in the field of security, his background spans management and technical consulting roles in the areas of application and cloud security, mobile security, penetration testing, and secure coding. Rohit has also co-authored Learning Android Forensics, from Packt, which explain various ways to perform forensics on mobile platforms. You can contact him on Twitter at @RohitTamma.

Oleg Skulkin is a senior digital forensic analyst at Group-IB, one of the global leaders in preventing and investigating high-tech crimes and online fraud. He holds a number of certifications, including GCFA, GCTI, and MCFE. Oleg has also co-authored Windows Forensics Cookbook, and Learning Android Forensics, both from Packt , as well as many blog posts and articles on digital forensics, incident response, and threat hunting that you can find online. You can contact him on Twitter at @oskulkin.

Heather Mahalik is the senior director of digital intelligence at Cellebrite. She is a senior instructor and author for the SANS Institute, and she is also the course lead for the FOR585 Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth course. With 18 years of experience in digital forensics, she continues to thrive on smartphone investigations, digital forensics, forensic course development and instruction, and research on application analysis and smartphone forensics.

Satish Bommisetty is a security architect currently working with JDA. His primary areas of interest include web and mobile application security, cloud security, and iOS forensics. He has presented at security conferences, such as ClubHACK and C0C0n. Satish is one of the top bug bounty hunters and is listed in the halls of fame of Google, Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, and more, for identifying and reporting their security vulnerabilities. You can reach him on Twitter at @satishb3.

Igor Mikhaylov has been working as a forensic examiner for 22 years. During this time, he has attended a lot of seminars and training classes by top digital forensic companies (such as Guidance Software, AccessData, and Cellebrite) and forensic departments of government organizations of the Russian Federation. He has experience and skills in computer forensics, incident response, cell phone forensics, chip-off forensics, malware forensics, data recovery, digital image analysis, video forensics, and big data. He has written three tutorials on cell phone forensics and incident response for Russian forensic examiners.

Detective Chad Prda has served in law enforcement for over 16 years. Throughout his distinguished career he has obtained several certifications, including Advanced Peace Officer, Advanced Interview and Interrogation, and Expert in Mobile Forensics. Detective Prda served on S.W.A.T. for 8 years as a firearms instructor and a lead marksman (sniper).

He later moved into criminal investigations, specializing in social media investigations, mobile forensics, and cellular mapping, as well as testifying in several criminal cases as an expert witness and studying at the United States Secret Service National Computer Forensics Institute.