Fox-IT

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Fox-IT
Company type Private
Industry Information security
Founded1999
Owner NCC Group (2015-current)
Website fox-it.com

Fox-IT is an information security company specialized in digital forensics and penetration testing, founded in 1999 and a subsidiary of NCC Group since 2015.

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The company is a major advisor to the government of the Netherlands. [1]

History

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Logo as of 2001
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Logo as of 2006
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Logo as of 2015

In 2003, Fox-IT partially acquired Philips-Crypto  ( nl ), an independent cryptography company within Philips. [2] Between 2007 and 2011, Fox-IT promoted their technology in Middle Eastern countries. [3] In 2011, Fox-IT did the investigation of the DigiNotar hack, a Dutch certificate authority [4] that went defunct afterwards. In 2011, it sold Fox Replay Analyst to NetScout Systems. [5] In 2015, the founders of the company sold the company to NCC Group. [6] In 2022, it released incident response software under an open source license. [7] In 2024, it sold their cryptographic subsidiary Fox Crypto to CR Group  ( sv ) and renamed the company to Sentyron. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Fox-IT belangrijk adviseur overheid". Volkskrant .
  2. ↑ "Ingelijfd door de NSA". De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch). 2014-01-29. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
  3. ↑ Brommersma, Sebastiaan (2021-07-30). "Beveiliger Nederlandse staatsgeheimen probeerde spionagesoftware te verkopen aan repressieve regimes". Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-12-21.
  4. ↑ "Iraanse hacker: ik deed het in m'n eentje". nos.nl (in Dutch). 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
  5. ↑ Kempenaar, Laura (2011-09-30). "Fox-IT verkoopt analysesoftwaretak Replay". Computable. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
  6. ↑ "Digitaal beveiligingsbedrijf Fox-IT verkocht voor 133 miljoen". Volkskrant . Retrieved 2025-12-21.
  7. ↑ "Fox-IT maakt eigen toolset voor incident response open source beschikbaar". Tweakers (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-12-21.
  8. ↑ "Fox-IT-moederbedrijf NCC Group verkoopt Fox Crypto aan Zweeds securitybedrijf". Tweakers (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-12-21.
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