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NCC Group plc today announced the appointment of Inge Bryan as managing director for its continental European operations, which includes Fox-IT and the former Fort Consult brand. The appointment is effective 1 January 2021. Inge will also join the Group Executive Committee.

NCC Group is proud to have collaborated with the Danish Ministry of Health on the security of the newly launched COVID-19 contact tracing app.

We’ve decided that the time is now right for us to fully transition to the NCC Group brand and from 1 June we will now be known as NCC Group.

As part of the NCC Group, FortConsult has 1,800 colleagues located in North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and the UK. We undertake significant travel around the world to support customer requirements and as a result, activated our business continuity process to manage the impact of COVID-19 some (...)

The smoke from New Year's Eve fireworks had barely settled when every NCC Group consultant in Europe gathered for our annual internal conference, NCCCon Europe. An event that rarely goes about quietly.

Windows 7 reaches its End Of Support on January 14th 2020. This means that Microsoft will no longer provide updates and patches for the operating system, which currently has almost 28% of the market share worldwide.

FortConsult's Piotr Duszynski has developed a tool that automates phishing campaigns and bypasses traditional two-factor authentication in the matter of seconds. Read more about it here.

Having expanded our full Professional and Managed Services portfolio to the Nordic and Baltic regions, we are now pleased to announce that the Group’s long-standing cooperation with Splunk has now extended to include our subsidiaries in Denmark and Lithuania.

Presenting at Kiwicon in New Zealand, FortConsult hacker Michele Orru, also known as ‘AntiSnatchOr’ in some circles, showcased and released his latest phishing kit.