Exterro Announces the Launch of FTK Central, a Digital Forensic Platform Designed to Accelerate the Discovery of Evidence, Increase the Speed of Analysis, Improve User Collaboration, and Decrease Case Backlog
FREMONT, CA: Exterro Inc., the preferred legal GRC software provider specifically designed for in-house legal, privacy, and IT teams at Global 2000 and AmLaw 200 organizations, introduces Forensic Toolkit (FTK) Central, a single platform that seamlessly unites digital forensic investigations and workflows to address legal GRC challenges from start to finish. FTK Central combines FTK's industry-leading, powerful processing engine with innovative new forensic and all-level review workflows. The result is accelerated forensic collections, document production, internal investigations and review, and reliable, repeatable, and scalable forensic-level processing, "all in a single collaborative, web-based solution.”
FTK Central is designed to optimize resource use, allowing forensic teams to work faster, more efficiently, and productively. The intuitive UI is familiar and easy to use for all skill levels, ensuring non-technical users spend less time learning the product and time using it and relieving the burden of training their users repeatedly. Also, for organizations requiring outside assistance for large-scale projects, FTK Central is the only solution to provide access to internal and external team members for seamless sharing and collaboration in the same case file while maintaining complete control over which information is shared. In addition, outside reviewers can review case data from their device anywhere in the world at any time.
Key FTK Central features include
Fresh, intuitive and familiar UI designed by Google and suitable for all skill levels
Industry-leading processing power designed to handle complex data on a simple, reliable platform
Efficient collaboration with external reviewers and team members with configurable case files, ensuring reviewers see only the data relevant to their case (s)
Forensic data collection including remote off-network collection and cloud data source collection from popular tools like the G Suite, Office 365 and Slack
Unrivalled near-native review of chat applications data integrated includes all document types without switching viewers when navigating through documents, videos, chat logs and more.
Rapid review with a pop-out reviewer allowing users to move a file to a second screen for easier double monitoring
Automation of a comprehensive range of repetitive tasks, such as evidence acquisition and review and export
Seamless integration with other FTK products; enhances forensic laboratory eco-systems and fits all skills.
“Digital evidence is becoming increasingly overwhelming to process both in terms of complexity and volume. At the same time, forensic experts and legal reviewers are under pressure to work faster, solve more cases and secure more convictions,” says Exterro Founder and CEO Bobby Balachandran. “FTK Centrals new processing and review efficiencies address these challenges directly and decisively with powerful processing that can easily handle modern data sets. Forensics teams using FTK Central can now collaborate efficiently from anywhere on their own devices and quickly reduce lab backlog from years to months, from weeks to days or hours.”
