About Northwave Cyber Security

Our Mission

Your Safe Digital Journey

Driven by intelligence and committed to your interests, we provide you with an intelligent security operation that will keep your business adequately protected at all times. That is our daily mission towards you as our client.

The driving force behind the commitment and dedication that you will experience when you work with us, is the personal mission of each and every Northwaver. From ethical hacker to lawyer, cyber analyst to psychologist, programmer to business expert, CEO to receptionist, we all share a common goal. The safe digital journey for our free and modern world.

This is why we stand firm day and night to prevent unfriendly actors to exploit our technologies for their own economical and geopolitical gain. This is why we insist that our privacy is respected and protected. This is why we push ourselves to be the best version of ourselves today and an even better version tomorrow.

We welcome you at Northwave and invite you to join our mission.

Realism

We have a realistic view of our environment as well as ourselves in order to work efficiently and with value. We know what we can do and where we set limits.

Reason

We act fairly, with integrity and trustworthily in order to be able to behave with mutual trust and loyalty towards each other, but also towards our customers and partners.

FUNKE Media Group

Only a few hours after the attack, the Northwave experts were here at our offices - this was extremely important for all of us, because we knew then that we were not alone in dealing with the problem.

Today, we train the entire workforce on secure passwords and phishing emails. Trained end users are the best firewalls for attacks. And, of course, we are investing significantly more in the topic of IT security. To defend against unavoidable attacks, we permanently rely on 24/7 monitoring by Northwave's experts.

Heiko Weigelt
Head of IT

Serviceplan Group

I appreciate it when Northwave's external experts look independently, like a second pair of eyes, at our processes and measures. That's why we rely on Northwave's SOC.

Northwave's security experts provide me with peace of mind and additional security in operations, so I know that everything is at least double-checked and continuously monitored. This frees up our IT teams. In addition to the SOC, Northwave's Security Office provides us with many advantages. Everyone in the group can call on the experts for help with security issues, from questions to incident handling. In addition to technical measures, Northwave also assisted with our company's TISAX certification.

Florian Haller
CEO and Owner

2006

Northwave is founded by former CFO, John van Veen. The company focuses on security in Oracle development projects.

2007

Steven Dondorp takes over the company and expands the focus towards integral security services, merging active threat intelligence with business security best practices.

2011

We undertake our first large incident response assignments, helping clients deal with the earlier forms of digital crime and stately sponsored cyber-espionage.

2014

We launch our Intelligent Security Operations service, where clients can out task their security management and key measures towards their organization, technology and people to us. The service is first in the market and still a unique proposition today.

2018

We are one of the leading companies in founding the industry organization Cyberveilig Nederland. Steven Dondorp becomes chairman of the board of this organization that focuses on private-public cooperation to reinforce the cyber defense of the Dutch society.

2019

Besides opening our DACH headquarters in Leipzig, we also start our tech-a-typical company-wide wellbeing program, compiled of a diversity in activities such as running marathons and piano lessons. We partake in the New York Marathon with 33 runners. We all finish!

2020

We are now the largest Dutch cyber security company that is 100% self-financed and owned by its management. Our management teams are 50-50 female-male. We become the Dutch defense Ministry’s “employer of the year for reserve forces”.

2021

For the fourth consecutive year, Northwave is one of Europe’s fastest growing companies, according to the Financial Times FT 1000. We are now active for clients in more than 15 different countries and employ over 220 dedicated and skillful people.

2022

Our Computer Emergency Response Team has deployed towards hundreds of ransomware and other cyber incidents throughout Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine changes dynamics on the cyber battlefield. We have become an authority on dealing with actors and on ransomware intelligence.

2024

A year with great milestones. Together with our 275 colleagues, we celebrated that Northwave turned 18, officially a grown-up! We are proud to be still an independent and self-financed organisation. But there is more to celebrate, we also finished the Boston marathon this year with a group of runners, opened up our new Investigation & Innovation department as well as our new business activities in Sweden and Belgium. And we also welcome Monique Dekker as the new COO of Northwave.