Leveraging Client-Side User Account Data in Digital Forensic Investigations

Pulkit Garg, Vishal Srivastava, Nitesh K. Bharadwaj, Gaurav Gupta

Abstract: Smartphones have become integral to daily routines, generating a wealth of user data with every interaction. Client-side data from smartphones is invaluable in digital forensic investigations, especially data generated while using social media apps and Google services. However, large volumes of the generated data – called user account data – are not stored on the mobile devices, but on enterprise servers.