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Digital forensic practitioners have many tools to conduct forensic investigations. Tools image hard drives, gather data from smartphones and pull information from the internet cloud. But, as those tools evolve, some of them bring forensic investigation into other areas, such as incident response and even security.
Andrew Hoog and his company, NowSecure, focuses on mobile -- smartphones to be precise. Their platforms are part of the evolution of forensics, converging with other fields, making all of them stronger and more efficient.
DFI News spoke with Hoog, CEO of NowSecure, Inc., about his company, the latest upgrade to its forensic software, NowSecure Foensics 3.0, and what he sees for digital forensics looking forward.
From the beginning
Hoog started the company in 2009. Initially, it was a forensics and e-discovery company. He became fascinated early on with mobile following the release of the G1, the first android mobile phone.
"After a year we punted on all computer and e-discovery," Hoog said. "And all we've done since then is mobile."
He has written two books, one on iOS forensics and another on Android forensics, which started out as whitepapers. And he is writing a third book, which will be on mobile incident response.
"In the forensic space we ended up uncovering a lot of security flaws in mobile apps, because we were looking at data at rest...