Securax
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Securax was considered as one of Belgium
's strongest hacking
movements in the past twenty years and was founded by Filip Maertens as an online community in order to combine skills and experiences in the domain of vulnerability identification, zero-day exploit creation and penetration testing methods.
The movement was known for its critical insights into the information security
industry, bold press interviews and its near-daily newsletter (in Dutch). At its peak, the newsletter was read by over 90.000 Dutch speaking readers. Both professionals and non-professionals.
As of September 1999, companies could make use of the knowledge by way of "legal intrusion tests", where Securax assembled high quality and very skilled Tiger Team
s to perform the projects. It was as of May 2000 that Securax made the choice to walk the thin line between attaining a community of security experts and hacker
s, while offering commercial services at enterprise level.
In 2002 the community was disbanded as the result of the sale of the vulnerability database engine to a Big Five company and a name-change to Hexyn.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
's strongest hacking
Hacker
Hacker is a term that has been used to mean a variety of different things in computing. Depending on the context, the term could refer to a person in any one of several distinct communities and subcultures:People committed to circumvention of computer security...
movements in the past twenty years and was founded by Filip Maertens as an online community in order to combine skills and experiences in the domain of vulnerability identification, zero-day exploit creation and penetration testing methods.
The movement was known for its critical insights into the information security
Information security
Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction....
industry, bold press interviews and its near-daily newsletter (in Dutch). At its peak, the newsletter was read by over 90.000 Dutch speaking readers. Both professionals and non-professionals.
As of September 1999, companies could make use of the knowledge by way of "legal intrusion tests", where Securax assembled high quality and very skilled Tiger Team
Tiger team
A tiger team is a group of experts assigned to investigate and/or solve technical or systemic problems. The term may have originated in aerospace design but is also used in other settings, including information technology and emergency management...
s to perform the projects. It was as of May 2000 that Securax made the choice to walk the thin line between attaining a community of security experts and hacker
Hacker
Hacker is a term that has been used to mean a variety of different things in computing. Depending on the context, the term could refer to a person in any one of several distinct communities and subcultures:People committed to circumvention of computer security...
s, while offering commercial services at enterprise level.
In 2002 the community was disbanded as the result of the sale of the vulnerability database engine to a Big Five company and a name-change to Hexyn.