Company Chronology

1930's - Forming TNO, the Netherlands organisation for applied scientific research, by the Dutch government as an intermediate research and development institute.

1980 - Starting security evaluation activities within the TNO unit EIB (evaluation center for security techniques)

1997 - Developing the capability of performing Common Criteria evaluation

2002 - Spinning off the Common Criteria evaluations in a separate company (TNO ITSEF BV), owned by TNO

2004 - Merging of the EIB and Common Criteria activities to operate under the name of TNO ITSEF BV

2006 - Changing the new company's name into Brightsight

2007 - Forming Joint Ventures Brightsight Asia in Korea and BeSecure in Japan

Our name change
Since TNO is also involved in security activities, it was jointly decided to change the company name in order to express more explicitly that we are a separate company and to avoid confusion. The new name that was chosen is “Brightsight”.

Currently Brightsight is a very successful organisation, it has some 40 employees, has an annual turnover over 4 Million Euro, it is one of the largest security evaluation laboratories in the world and it is in possession of  all relevant internationally recognized security evaluation accreditations. Brightsight can count some 100 international clients to its customer base, most of which have been clients over a decade.
Accreditations.