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, 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 and renamed the company to Sentyron.[8]
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References
- Fox-IT belangrijk adviseur overheid Volkskrant^
- Ingelijfd door de NSA De Groene Amsterdammer, 2014-01-29, retrieved 2025-12-21^
- Sebastiaan Brommersma. Beveiliger Nederlandse staatsgeheimen probeerde spionagesoftware te verkopen aan repressieve regimes Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek, 2021-07-30, retrieved 2025-12-21^
- Iraanse hacker: ik deed het in m'n eentje nos.nl, 2011-09-09, retrieved 2025-12-21^
- Laura Kempenaar. Fox-IT verkoopt analysesoftwaretak Replay Computable, 2011-09-30, 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, retrieved 2025-12-21^
- Fox-IT-moederbedrijf NCC Group verkoopt Fox Crypto aan Zweeds securitybedrijf Tweakers, retrieved 2025-12-21^