This 40 hour course is designed to provide law enforcement personnel with foundational skills and the knowledge necessary for Advance forensic examinations of cellular phones. Special circumstances arise, and must be given special consideration when a cellular phone is used as an instrument of crime, or when a cellular phone contains records of criminal activity and the cellular phone has a passcode preventing law enforcement access to the device. ISP “In-System Programming” applied to forensics is the practice of connecting to an eMMC or eMCP flash memory chip for the purpose of downloading a device’s complete memory contents. eMMC and eMCP memory are the standard in today’s smartphones, and the ISP practice enables examiners to bypass lock codes and recover the complete data without removing the chip and destroying the device. ISP enables examiners access to phones not supported by JTAG or commercial tools. ISP benefits the examiner who faces the challenges of tightening budgets, yet wants to expand their expertise in retrieving evidence from locked smartphones. A cost-effective technique, ISP provides examiners with the same results of a chip-off at a lower price-point. And just like with JTAG and Chip-Off, your agency can still use its current line-up of forensic analysis software to recover that ’smoking gun’ piece of evidence. No need to purchase additional analysis software.

Students should have an understanding and a working knowledge of Advance Cell Phone Techniques like JTAG and Chip-Off before enrolling in this class. This class will be directed at individuals already in possession of these skills.

- Law enforcement personnel assigned to Cellular Forensics Investigations and whose primary responsibility is to exam cellular phones at an advance level that requires the need to gain access to a password protected device. Due to the cost of this class, students who attend need to have experience with disassembling cellular devices and working with RAW data files.

Upon completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and ability to examine cellular phones that have.

• Students learn how to determine if a cell phone supports the ISP process, locate the ISP connection points, then using a hardware / software combination of tools, connect to the phone and download its contents.
• Students will remove chips from devices, locate ISP connection points using back tracing techniques, and then apply the ISP process to an identical phone to download the flash memory.
• Students learn finer precision soldering skills as they solder to the resistors and capacitors of the PCB

This is a tuition free course for Law Enforcement.