Exterro is excited to announce the launch of FTK 8.0, the newest version of the digital forensics industry's gold standard, Exterro FTK® Forensic Toolkit, coming on Monday, September 25!

FTK, the award-winning, court-cited digital investigations solution, is built for speed, stability, and ease of use. It delivers powerful time-saving automations to help agencies accelerate forensic workflows and close cases faster. It also boasts the fastest scalable processing engine on the market, powering individual investigators and large-scale government agencies alike.

We are rolling out the red carpet (and more!), with the product getting a high-profile unveiling on our livestream on the big day, September 25. If you're reading this before noon Eastern time, you still have a chance to sign up here and watch as Director of Product Harsh Behl, Digital Forensics Evangelist Justin Tolman, Product Manager Dan Carroll, and Exterro CEO and Founder Bobby Balachandran introduce the product and all the great features it offers! In a first for Exterro, you can even buy the product directly in our store, which also opened on the 25th.

FTK 8.0 offers investigators a number of great features, but far and away the coolest is our all-new, intuitive interface, which guides users to the key evidence they need to see to quickly understand the facts at hand in any digital investigation.

Pivotal FTK 8.0 Features

• New User Interface
• FTK’s intuitive new interface design makes it easier for both experienced investigators and non-technical users to navigate the software, dramatically reducing the learning curve. You can eliminate the hours spent manually digging for specific data types; FTK 8.0 intelligently categorizes and displays data artifacts to help you pinpoint key evidence FASTER. The interface highlights all important evidence, such as images, videos, messages, timelines, websites, passwords, and dark web activity, in plain sight for easy review. It even has DARK MODE to reduce eyestrain!
• Reimagined Multimedia Review
• Effortlessly pivot through multimedia case evidence using FTK’s new Thumbnail View for images and video. Simply hover over each thumbnail to enlarge the image, then click to view image properties and metadata. Thumbnails can be grouped and filtered by attributes such as filename, date, file extension type, image size, and device make and model, making it incredibly easy to isolate pictures of interest—such as those taken by a particular mobile device within a specified time frame.
• Industry-Exclusive Mini Timelines
• FTK 8.0 provides more context around the data, making it easy for you to trace the path from where an image originated to where (and to whom) it was sent. This effectively reconstructs the activity leading up to and following the creation of the image. See related images and messages that occurred around the same time an image was created, displayed in a Mini Timeline View. For example, see phone calls made before an image was taken, then view SMS text activity showing to whom the picture was sent afterward.
• Smart Grid
• Stop spending countless hours endlessly scrolling through an antiquated data grid. With FTK’s new Smart Grid, we’ve made filtering as simple as possible. The Smart Grid view is a visual way to create complex compound filters with just a few clicks. It shows you every data point that is POSSIBLE to filter on, with each column representing metadata such as file type, file size, created date, creator name, and geographic location. To build a Smart Grid filter, simply click the metadata values in one or more columns that you want to target. For example, easily isolate .mpeg images over 10GB in size in just three clicks.

Endorsed by the Experts

Don't just take our word for it. Wayne Mitchell, a former FBI Senior Forensic Examiner currently serving as Vice President of Cyber Risk at Kroll, says:

“With the speed of the new FTK 8.0 processing engine, we can get the data into the hands of [our] expert investigators faster – often on the same day. The interface is easy to understand, and the artifacts are automatically categorized and organized so you’re able to dive right into the investigation and build the story the evidence is showing. FTK 8.0 cuts out all the time needed to manually find the artifacts and piece it all together.”

Check out FTK 8.0 today!

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