Illumination Zone: Episode 240 | Exterro’s Harsh Behl sits down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson

Illumination Zone EDRM Podcast

Harsh Behl, Vice President of Product Management at EDRM Trusted Partner Exterro, sits down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Harsh provides an overview of FTK 8.3 and explains how Exterro combines 30 years of trusted forensic code with AI to help investigators move faster without sacrificing defensibility. He discusses why data diversity and complexity remain significant challenges, how Exterro uses curated, forensics-specific AI models with end-to-end provenance, and why examiners must be able to verify every result. The conversation also covers FTK 8.3’s AI-enabled remote endpoint collection, which allows investigators to triage and collect targeted data from internet-connected endpoints around the world. Looking ahead, Harsh discusses where digital forensics is headed as AI usage grows and how Exterro is preparing investigators for that shift. We ended with fun facts from Harsh and how best to reach him.

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Authors

  • Mary Mack is the CEO and Chief Legal Technologist for EDRM. Mary was the co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West Treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel for 10 years and the co-author of A Process of Illumination: the Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. She holds the CISSP among her certifications.

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  • Holley Robinson is the Marketing Operations Director for EDRM and ComplexDiscovery OÜ. She supports social media strategy, podcast and webinar production, and content management for EDRM while also overseeing updates to ComplexDiscovery’s industry-recognized eDisclosure Buyers Guide and assisting with their social media and content efforts. A recent graduate of Texas Tech University with a background in marketing, Holley began her journey in eDiscovery as an intern with EDRM and now contributes to amplifying valuable resources for the eDiscovery community.

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