Fox-IT
Company typePrivate
IndustryInformation security
Founded1999
OwnerNCC Group (2015-current)
Websitefox-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.

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

History

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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

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  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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