Workplace investigations can also be done by mobile forensics investigators


Posted December 16, 2012 by timbaub00

Someone doing something wrong on their PC and you can still realize that they are indeed doing something wrong.

 
Someone doing something wrong on their PC and you can still realize that they are indeed doing something wrong. But someone using their mobile phone to steal data or break some security policy can be a hard thing to catch especially if the watcher is a novice like you and me. But this doesn’t mean that this individual will get away scot free. Mobile forensics investigators are there to catch criminals like these. And they can also carry on other workplace investigations to ensure that no internal criminal is able to cause any harm to your company.

Today most people carry smartphones with them. There was a time when employees were asked to leave their camera phones in a security area before they entered the office premises. But those policies have become archaic now because now everyone seems to be carrying an Android or an iOS or a BlackBerry or a Windows Phone. You cannot stop people from choosing their phones and you cannot expect them to part with these phones that cost good money. And what do you do with those employees that work from home? How can you track how they are using their smartphones? Committing crimes using smartphones is seemingly very easy.

But is that the case really? If that were so many companies would have downed shutters by now. Workplace investigations have become very prominent now. You have these surprise audits when someone comes and checks your laptop or office desktop. You have these policies that don’t allow you to use external storage devices on your office computers. But smartphones still cause problems simply because of their small sizes. Someone may just click a photo on their phone and no one will even come to know. Someone may use some app to copy data remotely from a colleague’s computer. But mobile forensics investigators are aware of all this and this is why they are so successful in tracking down these crimes and apprehending the criminals.

Workplace investigations on smartphones done by mobile forensics investigators are very advanced. All data pertaining to sms logs, call logs, contacts and emails can be recovered from the phones. Even when some data has been deleted it can be recovered by the investigators. It doesn’t matter if the deleted data was in the SIM or some other storage device. All application data can be recovered including data for social media and geo-location. Even password protected phones can be opened up to collect data. If there was a spyware installed in a smartphone the activities of that spyware can also be tracked.

As you can see it is very easy to track whether a smartphone has been used for committing any digital crime. No matter how smart the perpetrator is the mobile forensics investigators are a notch smarter. Using professional techniques of workplace investigations they can find out each and everything they think is important. And most importantly, the data is so collected that it can be presented as evidence. Hence, such crimes really don’t pay in the long run.


Mobile forensics investigators http://digitalinvestigations.com.au/mobile-forensics can not only collect data from mobiles but also do all other types of workplace investigations http://digitalinvestigations.com.au/workplace-investigations.
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Issued By david banks
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Last Updated December 16, 2012