Exterro FTK Product Suite
Comprehensive Digital Forensics Tools for Every Investigation Scale
Exterro’s FTK (Forensic Toolkit) product suite is trusted by law enforcement, corporations, service providers, and academic institutions worldwide for conducting accurate, efficient, and legally defensible digital investigations. Whether you’re managing a single case or a large-scale enterprise response, the FTK lineup provides powerful, scalable tools to meet your digital forensics needs.
🖥️ FTK Standalone
An all-in-one solution for individual investigators, FTK Standalone offers robust forensic capabilities including data carving, email analysis, timeline reconstruction, and keyword searching—all within a single desktop application. Ideal for small teams or solo practitioners handling targeted investigations.
🧪 FTK Lab
Designed for forensic labs with multiple examiners, FTK Lab centralizes case management and accelerates investigations through distributed processing. It allows multiple users to collaborate on evidence review, dramatically improving throughput and team efficiency.
🏢 FTK Enterprise
Built for large organizations, FTK Enterprise enables real-time collection and analysis of data across networked systems—perfect for cybersecurity incident response, internal investigations, and compliance monitoring. Investigators can perform remote acquisitions without disrupting end users, ensuring swift action when every second counts.
🌐 FTK Central
A browser-based review platform, FTK Central streamlines collaborative investigations by allowing legal and compliance teams to access, review, and tag digital evidence remotely. It integrates seamlessly with other FTK components and supports efficient eDiscovery and legal review workflows.
💾 FTK Imager
A lightweight, free tool for forensic image acquisition, FTK Imager enables quick, reliable capture and preview of data from hard drives, USBs, and other media sources. It’s often used for triage or preliminary evidence assessment before full analysis in FTK.
Why FTK?
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🔒 Defensible, court-approved forensic methodologies
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⚡ High-speed processing with minimal data footprint
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🌍 Scalable for individuals, labs, and global enterprises
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🔄 Seamless integration with Exterro’s Legal GRC platform
Whether you're handling a one-off digital investigation or managing continuous enterprise forensics, Exterro FTK delivers the performance, scalability, and compliance you need.
Accelerate Digital Investigations with FTK
Streamline your workflow, uncover key evidence, and close cases faster.
In high-stakes investigations, every second counts. Exterro FTK equips forensic professionals with the speed and precision needed to zero in on critical artifacts, reduce case scope, and deliver actionable results quickly and defensibly.
🔧 Be Instantly Productive
FTK’s intuitive, user-friendly interface enables both seasoned investigators and non-technical users to get up to speed quickly. The streamlined design significantly reduces the learning curve across all experience levels.
🧠 Uncover More Artifacts—Automatically
Stop wasting time on manual searches. FTK automatically detects, categorizes, and presents a wide range of artifact types—helping you find the most relevant evidence with ease.
⚡ Faster, Smarter Searching
FTK processes and indexes data upfront, enabling lightning-fast filtering and keyword searches during review. This ensures consistent, accurate results without delay—outpacing traditional forensic tools in both speed and efficiency.
Trusted Digital Forensics. Deeper Insight. Faster Results.
Quickly locate, collect, and analyze digital evidence with the industry’s most trusted forensic solution.
Exterro FTK delivers unmatched speed and reliability through a scalable processing engine that gets critical evidence into the hands of investigators faster. Its robust capabilities allow examiners to go beyond surface-level analysis and uncover insights that other tools may miss.
With support for custom Python scripting, file decryption, password recovery, registry parsing, and advanced data carving to recover deleted content, FTK empowers investigators to extract more value from their evidence—faster, deeper, and more defensibly.
Mobile Data Processing: Unified Analysis Across Devices
Investigate mobile evidence and review chat data with ease.
FTK’s powerful processing engine enables seamless analysis of both computer and mobile device data within a single unified database—helping investigators uncover critical connections across data sources faster.
FTK supports native, unprocessed UFD extractions from leading mobile forensics tools such as Cellebrite, Oxygen, XRY, and GrayKey. Chat messages from platforms like WhatsApp and Twitter are reconstructed in a near-native format, making it easy to interpret conversations in context and accelerate review.
Multimedia Thumbnail Review: Visual Evidence Made Simple
Effortlessly navigate and analyze image and video evidence.
FTK’s Multimedia Thumbnail Review streamlines the analysis of visual content with an intuitive interface. Hover over or click on thumbnails to inspect images of interest, then quickly label and categorize them using convenient keyboard shortcuts.
Built-in mini timelines provide valuable context by reconstructing the user’s activity before and after each image was created. For sensitive cases—such as those involving CSAM—FTK also includes investigator wellness settings to help reduce repeated exposure to distressing content.
Transform How You Collect and Review Mobile Data
Streamlined, Secure Remote Mobile Discovery for Today’s Mobile Workforce
In today’s remote and mobile-first environment, smartphones hold critical data for internal investigations and e-discovery. Whether it's emails, chat logs, or app activity, this data must be collected, analyzed, and reviewed efficiently—yet traditional mobile data acquisition has posed challenges for legal, compliance, and IT teams.
Exterro Remote Mobile Discovery (RMD) simplifies this process by enabling forensic and legal professionals to remotely collect mobile data—alongside cloud and computer sources—into a centralized review platform, reducing time, complexity, and cost.
💡 Key Benefits
Cost-Effective Data Acquisition
Reduce shipping expenses, eliminate unnecessary travel, and minimize employee downtime by collecting mobile data remotely via lightweight agents installed on trusted endpoints.
Seamless Workflow Integration
Available in both SaaS and on-premises deployments, Exterro RMD integrates smoothly into your existing workflows. Users can preview or collect remote mobile data with just a few clicks from within the Exterro platform.
Ironclad Security & Chain of Custody
All data is transmitted using industry-leading encryption and forensic protocols, and securely packaged in AD1 containers to maintain chain of custody and ensure evidentiary integrity.
Exterro RMD empowers your team to investigate faster, respond smarter, and reduce operational friction—no matter where your data lives.