Case Study: 4MAT Data Solutions achieves faster, scalable digital forensics processing with Exterro FTK Lab

FTK Lab Delivers Speed and Flexibility to Support Digital Forensics Collections by 4MAT Data Solutions

4MAT Data Solutions is a UK-based digital forensics and investigations firm founded by former New Scotland Yard detective Matt Blackband. The company specializes in search-and-seizure operations and must collect and preserve electronic evidence to strict ACPO standards while coping with rapidly growing and complex data sets, tight deadlines and the need for scalable, forensically sound tools that can be used by both specialists and non-experts.

4MAT adopted Exterro’s FTK Lab, built on FTK technology, to provide distributed processing, a shared database and a web interface that scales across hardware and supports multiple concurrent reviewers. FTK Lab allowed the team to process large data sets far faster and more reliably (for example, completing a 12 TB data set to review in five weeks where a competitor failed), reduced backlogs, handled cases with millions of files, and became 4MAT’s primary platform for flexible, efficient digital investigations.

4MAT Data Solutions

Matt Blackband

Founder