Digital Evidence from Social Networking Sites & Smartphone Apps

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Presented at TechnoSecurity&DigitalForensics 2019 by

Julie Navarro

According to Statista.com in 2018, 2.62 billion of Internet users worldwide were social network users and these figures are expected to grow to 3.02 billion by 2021. In 2018, more than 77 percent of the United States population had a social media profile. Mobile device usage for social media has increased to 91% of social channel accesses in 2018 according to Marketing Profs. Many technology thought leaders believe social networking will displace traditional email as the leading communication medium. This session will provide a practical walk-through of preservation of top social media sites and how to effectively utilize tools for evidentiary collection across the Web, PCs/desktops and smart devices. The session will also look at social media apps on smartphones and share what digital evidence exists compared to what can be found on the cloud.