Draft:AccessData

AccessData was a software development company, the company developed Forensic Toolkit (FTK) and FTK Imager until it was acquired by Exterro. It had over 130,000 customers in law enforcement, private companies, and government agencies.

Forensic Toolkit
Forensic Toolkit, or FTK, is a computer forensics software that scans a hard drive looking for various information. It can, for example, potentially locate deleted emails and scan a disk for text strings to use them as a password dictionary to crack encryption.

FTK Imager
FTK Imager is a tool that saves an image of a hard disk in one file or in segments that may be later on reconstructed. It calculates MD5 and SHA1 hash values and can verify the integrity of the data imaged is consistent with the created forensic image. The forensic image can be saved in several formats, including DD/raw, E01, and AD1.

History
In December 2020, AccessData was acquired by Exterro.