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 Headquarters in Delft, the Netherlands | |
Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Information security |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Owner | NCC Group (2015-current) |
| Website | fox-it |
Fox-IT is an information security company specialized in digital forensics and penetration testing. It was founded in 1999 and has been a subsidiary of NCC Group since 2015.
The company is a major advisor to the government of the Netherlands.1
History
In 2003, Fox-IT partially acquired Philips-Crypto, 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 authority4 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 and renamed the company to Sentyron.8
References
References
- "Fox-IT belangrijk adviseur overheid". Volkskrant.
- "Ingelijfd door de NSA". De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch). 2014-01-29. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
- 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.
- "Iraanse hacker: ik deed het in m'n eentje". nos.nl (in Dutch). 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
- Kempenaar, Laura (2011-09-30). "Fox-IT verkoopt analysesoftwaretak Replay". Computable. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
- "Digitaal beveiligingsbedrijf Fox-IT verkocht voor 133 miljoen". Volkskrant. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
- "Fox-IT maakt eigen toolset voor incident response open source beschikbaar". Tweakers (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-12-21.
- "Fox-IT-moederbedrijf NCC Group verkoopt Fox Crypto aan Zweeds securitybedrijf". Tweakers (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-12-21.