A Framework for Mobile Forensic Readiness in Yemen

One of the most important inventions of the 20th century is the mobile phone. In addition to making and receiving phone calls, a mobile phone can be used for texting, gaming, taking photos, recording movies, and accessing the internet, among many other things. This paper develops a framework for mobile forensic readiness in Yemen. In addition, mobile forensic readiness (MFR) aims to know the level of readiness for mobile forensic in Yemen, the level of mobile forensic factors in Yemen, and factors that affect the readiness for mobile forensic in Yemen. The main goal of forensic preparedness is to maximize an organization's capacity for establishing the viability of conducting forensic investigations and for accessing digital evidence at the lowest possible cost of an inquiry. Fundamentally, the primary goal of forensic preparation is to guarantee that the evidence is pertinent and comprehensive enough for the forensic investigation. The research is descriptive and collects indicators of MFR from literature review and 110 questionnaire that given to the Yemeni criminal investigation bureau employees, technology users, public prosecutor office employees. Furthermore, through the interviews were done with the police station managers and their employees. However, the returned questionnaires were 101. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze and test the data through mean, standard deviation, and one sample T- test. Moreover, SPSS AMOS was used to design the framework. All mentioned hypotheses were tested using regression, T- Value, Beta, P- value, and R-square. Therefore, the results show that all hypotheses were supported. This paper develops a framework for mobile forensic which reveals if we have a suitable infrastructure for mobile forensic and increase the awareness of mobile forensic which assists the experts to recover and analyze data. Furthermore, this research increases the potential use of digital evidence and increases the trust in the mobile forensic process.