Penetration Testing in the Netherlands
HackersHub is an Amsterdam-headquartered offensive security firm running engagements for enterprises across the Netherlands — from Zuidas financial institutions to Rotterdam port operators, Utrecht academic healthcare, The Hague government and the regional industrial base. Penetration tests, red team operations, phishing simulations and managed security delivered manually by OSCP and OSWE certified testers.
The Dutch threat landscape
The Netherlands carries one of the densest enterprise attack surfaces in the EU: hyperscaler-class data-centre density in the Randstad, the second-largest banking sector by GDP share, Europe's largest port, the international rule-of-law cluster in The Hague, and a tech and life-sciences scene punching well above per-capita weight. The dominant threat patterns in 2025–2026 sit across business email compromise targeting treasury and AP, ransomware-on-OT against logistics and industrial operators, OAuth consent abuse against engineering ecosystems, supply-chain compromise via partner integrations (the Mandiant Q1-2026 report puts NL in the top three EU jurisdictions for supplier-chain-driven incidents), and state-actor APT campaigns aimed at government, defence-adjacent and energy-sector targets. The Dutch regulatory regime tracks this threat model closely: DNB-ISI for finance, BIO for government, NEN 7510 for healthcare, plus NIS2 essential-entity and DORA ICT third-party obligations layered over all of them.
Sectors we engage across the Netherlands
Repeatable threat patterns by sector — same playbook adapted to local context.
Financial services, fintech & insurance
Zuidas banks, Rabobank corridor, insurance carriers in The Hague and Utrecht, fintech and crypto. DNB-ISI, DORA TLPT, AFM operational risk, AVG Article 32 — full coverage.
Government & international institutions
National government, regional government, international rule-of-law institutions, government-supplier ecosystems. BIO-baseline reporting, TLP:AMBER+STRICT handling, state-actor red team operations.
Healthcare, life sciences & research
Academic medical centres, life-sciences companies, research-data custodians. NEN 7510-aligned reporting, Z-CERT-ready incident-evidence appendices, identity-led methodology.
Logistics, maritime, energy & industrial OT
Port operators, shipping lines, freight forwarders, petrochemical operators, energy and utilities. NIS2 essential-entity evidence, IT/OT segmentation, IEC 62443 alignment.
Tech, scale-ups & B2B SaaS
The Dutch scale-up cluster needs SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audit evidence on tight cycles. Manual web-app pentest scoped in 5–10 working days, no eight-week lead times.
Dutch & EU compliance frameworks we report against
Engagement deliverables — penetration testing statement, executive summary, technical report with proof-of-concept, remediation tracker — are formatted to satisfy the evidence requirements of each framework below without additional documentation. Dutch and EU auditors accept HackersHub reports as primary evidence.
- DNB Information Security Self-Assessment (ISI)
- AFM operational-risk reviews
- BIO — Baseline Informatiebeveiliging Overheid
- NEN 7510:2024 — Information security in healthcare
- DORA Articles 24–27 — ICT third-party risk and threat-led testing
- NIS2 essential / important entity obligations (Cyberbeveiligingswet)
- IMO MSC.428(98) — maritime cyber risk management
- IEC 62443-3-3 — industrial automation and control systems
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A.8.8
- SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria CC7.1 / CC7.4
- AVG / GDPR Article 32
Services delivered across the Netherlands
Full offensive-security catalogue, scoped to your sector and regulatory regime.
Why Dutch enterprises choose HackersHub
HackersHub is a practitioner firm, not a platform reseller. Every engagement is led by OSCP- or OSWE-certified offensive security professionals who actively run red team operations. Reports are audit-ready on delivery: DNB-ISI, AFM, BIO, NEN 7510, DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001, SOC 2 and AVG auditors accept HackersHub deliverables as primary evidence. Engagements are scoped in days; senior-level scoping calls happen within one business day; bilingual EN / NL reporting is standard.
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