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Fox-IT

Information security company in the Netherlands

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.2 It is headquartered in Delft.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1999Founded1

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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 2015.2

The story

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Fox-IT, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

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Timeline

  1. 1999Founded Founded1

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