SNS F585: Advanced Smartphone Forensics (GASF)
Course Description
The SNS F585: Advanced Smartphone Forensics (GASF) course delivers deep, hands-on training in modern mobile device forensics, focusing on advanced acquisition, analysis, and investigation techniques for iOS and Android platforms. This course equips forensic practitioners with the skills needed to recover, analyze, and correlate data from smartphones, cloud backups, and connected applications.
Participants learn how to extract deleted, hidden, and encrypted artifacts, interpret complex mobile data structures, and reconstruct user activity across devices and services. The course emphasizes practical workflows used in real investigations, enabling accurate evidence collection, validation, and reporting.
What You Will Learn
Advanced iOS and Android forensic acquisition techniques
Extracting and analyzing deleted, hidden, and encrypted mobile data
Cloud data acquisition and correlation with on-device artifacts
Mobile application analysis and artifact interpretation
Decrypting protected data and understanding mobile security controls
Reconstructing timelines and user behavior from mobile datasets
Validating evidence and producing forensic-quality reports
Best practices for handling, preserving, and presenting mobile evidence
Who This Course Is For
Digital forensic analysts and incident responders
Law enforcement and investigative professionals
SOC analysts and threat investigators working with mobile evidence
Cybersecurity professionals preparing for advanced mobile forensics certifications
Hands-On Training Experience
Learners complete extensive, realistic lab exercises using real-world mobile datasets. These labs focus on evidence reconstruction, cross-source data correlation, and professional forensic reporting, reinforcing skills required for high-confidence mobile investigations.
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to conduct advanced smartphone forensic investigations, recover and correlate mobile and cloud artifacts, analyze application data, and produce defensible forensic findings—fully aligned with the objectives of the SNS F585: Advanced Smartphone Forensics (GASF) program.