PORTLAND, Ore., July 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Exterro announced today the
launch of FTK 8.1, the award-winning, court-cited digital investigations
solution built for speed, reliability, and ease of use with the fastest scalable
processing engine on the market. FTK 8.1 redefines mobile investigations with
next-level data processing, the fastest and most collaborative review and
analysis technology, near native data reporting, and the most scalable remote
Mac collection capabilities on the market.
Most notably, FTK 8.1 offers a groundbreaking entity management solution that
automatically groups all mobile and computer data by a single device user and
then aggregating all their disparate usernames, accounts, and devices into a
comprehensive view of their activity. With a clear picture of individuals' most
used applications, devices, and communication patterns, investigators can
quickly uncover hidden patterns in complex datasets involving multiple
individuals and come to conclusions faster. Then that evidence can then
seamlessly be shared with outside reviewers on FTK Central's web-based platform
or via portable case, and evidence stories can easily be communicated via a new,
fully customizable report builder that organizes artifacts and timelines into a
clear narrative.
"Exterro brings 30 years of market experience and a bold, innovative approach to
DFIR with FTK 8.1, making it the solution of choice for mobile, computer, and
cloud data investigations," said Harsh Behl, Vice President of Product
Management, Forensic Solutions at Exterro. "With these new enhancements,
investigators can get to the most relevant facts of the case much faster,
automatically identifying known aliases so they don't have to spend hours
connecting the dots and creating a comprehensive view of relationships and
communication patterns. The key evidence can then be organized and communicated
within a single report that embeds artifacts and timelines directly into the
narrative. The result is a faster, more efficient, and more effective
investigative process."
For corporate clients conducting large-scale internal investigations, FTK 8.1
supports collection and remediation from the most diverse range of remote
devices yet, including collection from a Mac endpoint that is off the corporate
network or VPN. Users can also respond to incidents faster by performing rapid
triage on compromised remote endpoints with FTK's new targeted collection
presets. It is now easier than ever to collect the most relevant information,
analyze it in FTK, then respond at scale.
Exterro FTK 8.1 features allow users to:

  * Get the full picture of communication patterns in cases with innovative
    Entity Management technology
  * Easily communicate evidence stories with FTK's fully customizable Lab-to-
    Court Report Builder
  * Investigate remote Mac users with Off-Network Mac Collection
  * Streamline mobile device review with FTK's unified iOS + Android processing
    and artifact parsing tools
  * Better analyze chat app data with chat date filters, chat language
    translation, and visual support for in-line chat replies.
  * Retrieve and display deleted and edited chat messages better than any other
    tool in the industry.
  * Use cutting-edge AI for facial and image recognition during multimedia
    analysis
  * Perform rapid triage and targeted IR collections on compromised remote
    endpoints and gather insights faster with System Summary Collection
  * Orchestrate cybersecurity workflows by automatically preserving endpoint
    evidence upon detection of a cyber intrusion with Splunk integration
  * Share evidence with outside reviewers seamlessly with FTK Central's web-
    based platform or a portable case

According to one European police agency during the pre-release launch of FTK
8.1, "FTK's new entity management technology is a game changer. Once we confirm
the owner of a device, our first step in an investigation is to determine who
that person is, so we spend hours looking at whom they were talking to and how
they were communicating. With entity management, we can immediately understand
these communication patterns by seeing a bird's eye view of all the device
user's conversations across all apps, versus the old way of trying to manually
read thousands of chat threads one by one. This feature is going to be a total
disruptor in our industry."
Exterro FTK Forensics Toolkit is one part of Exterro's comprehensive data risk
management platform, which helps organizations set up effective data risk
management strategies that align with strict data privacy laws, drive defensible
outcomes, manage sensitive data, and mitigate risk. Exterro FTK 8.1 is available
now. To learn more details about the product, please visit
www.exterro.com/ftk81.
About Exterro, Inc.
Exterro provides busy legal and IT leaders powerful technology solutions to
navigate complex data risks successfully. Built on the industry's only data risk
management platform, our software suite gives organizations the power to manage
e-discovery, privacy compliance, data governance, digital forensic
investigations, and cybersecurity response operations in a unified platform. Our
software is used by thousands of industry-leading businesses, government
agencies and law firms across the world. For more information, visit
www.exterro.com (http://www.exterro.com/).
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