Comparing Simultaneous vs. Serial Acquisitions in Smartphone Investigations

Law Enforcement is constrained by lower budgets but is still challenged to do more with fewer resources. This paper discusses the importance of multiprocessing and the performance evaluation for simultaneously extracting all the evidence from four completely different phones versus extracting the evidence from each phone serially. We are conducting research to compare the results of four cell phone / smart phone investigations on a modern laptop versus performing the investigations in a serial fashion on. People from law enforcement, the legal industry, and academia will discuss their viewpoint on the performance in a more comprehensive research paper in the near future.