Starting Research Center for Mobile Phone Forensics

Parag, are you using personal funds to do this, or what organization do you represent? What kind of annual budget are you working with? And just out of curiosity, what city are you in?

Parag, are you using personal funds to do this, or what organization do you represent? What kind of annual budget are you working with? And just out of curiosity, what city are you in?

Dear Scott thanks for your reply.

First of all I am working as an Assistant Professor & Head of the Department of Computer Applications in one of the colleges in my city and am at the verge of finishing my Ph. D. in mobile phone related cyber crime.

And yes, Research is like passion for me.

At this stage I am not representing any organization but looking for some collaboration.

Regarding annual budget I am just planning to start my research centre with couple of research assistants who can work with me in R&D. So basically I require few testing machines and mobile devices with some applications (I would prefer to use/develop on open source platform).

In short if I say then I am planning to keep my budget as low as possible because at this stage I don't have any financial support and the expense will need to be managed by me only.

I am from Rajkot - Gujrat (India).

Unfortunately here we don't have much awareness about Research and its very difficult to get funds for such projects. So I am looking for some support in starting this centre.

I hope this information describes my current state and the future plan.

If you can suggest or recommend me anything related to this then it would be very helpful for me.

Regards

Thanks for your response, Parag. I have a deep affection for India having worked there extensively for about 7 years. Our development team was in Pune. I'm familiar with Gujurat, but I had only heard of Ahmedabad not Rajkot (although I just read about it on Wikipedia).

If you want to work with an open source platform, may I suggest you try out Santoku which is a custom Linux distro by VIA Forensics in Chicago. I have no doubt that the forensics community would appreciate whatever you and your research assistants can contribute to the project.

Bet of luck in getting your research center set up.

Dear Scott,

Thank you very much for your valuable inputs.

I am really impressed by your prompt response and support.

After knowing about Santoku, I have started downloading it and will explore it at my end.

One more favour I need is if you can suggest me some research groups except (paid or free) forensicfocuswhich I can join to share and exchange my ideas then it would be really nice.

Also, thank you for your wishes and support.

I will definitely update you and forensicfocus about our derivatives from this work.

Regards

This may assist you.

Mobile Phone Forensics - useful links

http//www.msab.com/support/useful-links

Thanks Mike,

I will definitely use your suggestion in my work.

Regards

Parag,

A good listserv to join is the Phone Forensics Yahoo Group. You'll find quite a few knowledgeable individuals on there I'm sure.

Thanks Dizi,

I am now member of this group.

Regards

Parag,

A good listserv to join is the Phone Forensics Yahoo Group. You'll find quite a few knowledgeable individuals on there I'm sure.

Dear Dizi,

I applied to join above group but the authors refused my request. Are there any specific criteria to be a member of this group.

Your guidance can help me in exploring my ideas with experts.

Thanks