Talk:Forensic Toolkit
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Decline in popularity
[edit]Should we find sources about its decline in popularity? back in the day I used to use it and love it; I stopped working with Digital Forensics and a few years later had a client who would benefit from it, contacted all co-workers and they were in agreement that as much as most of us outside law enforcement did not like EnCase, it was pretty much the only way to go nowadays, since FTK had fallen truly behind.
I never did the job at the end, so I did not get to compare both.
Anyone?
Revival
[edit]Though the product's interface remained consistent for many years, the familiarity and deep-dive investigative capabilities it provided were complemented by an ever expanding set of capabilities. During your time away from DF, the distributed processing technology remained ahead of its time and steady improvements were made to its efficiency, stability and functionality.
Since its acquisition by Exterro, who clearly demonstrated they have the capital, desire and R&D teams to give the product the love it deserved, the community has welcomed a boost in its development. It is widely recognised to have regained its status as being an innovative and responsive solution in the marketplace, responding with novel solutions to industry challenges and demands. Its next-generation web UI now facilitates easier learning, advanced analytics, improved visualisations, more efficient identification of pertinent evidence and faster review workflows, AI for image/facial and video recognition, offline language translation, dynamically scalable cloud processing and collaborative web review capabilities with an ability to perform cross-case analysis, entity extraction and social analysis. Add to that the enviable API (FTK Connect) for automation and integration with a plethora of other tools, in short, those 'EnCase vs FTK' days are now distant memories for the community. It seems FTK has regained its original reputation as 'the gold standard in Digital Forensics', as the strap-line read for 20+ years - its popularity is today still on the rise.