Nexor
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| Private | |
| Industry | Computer security |
| Founded | 1989 (as X-Tel Services Limited) U.K. |
| Founder | Hugh Smith, Graeme Lunt, Julian Onions |
| Headquarters | Nottingham, England |
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Key people
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Stephen Kingan (CEO) |
| Products | Nexor Sentinel, Nexor Guardian, Nexor Merlin, Nexor Data Diode, Nexor Border Gateway, MMHS |
| Services | CyberShield Secure |
| Owner | Stephen Kingan |
| Website | www |
Nexor Limited is a privately held company based in Nottingham, providing product and services to safeguard government, defence and critical national infrastructure computer systems. It was originally known as X-Tel Services Limited.
Nexor Limited was founded in 1989 as X-Tel Services Limited out of the University of Nottingham and UCL, following research into X.400 and X.500 systems for the ISODE project. In 1992 Stephen Kingan joined the business as CEO. In 1993 X-Tel Services Limited was renamed Nexor Limited. In 1996 3i invested in the business to launch Nexor Inc. In 2004 Kingan and Nigel Fasey acquired the business. In 2008 Colin Robbins was appointed to the board as CTO. In 2012 Kingan acquired 100% ownership of Nexor. October 2013, the company moved headquarters from Nottingham Science Park to the NG2 Business Park.
Nexor customers include NATO,European Defence Agency,UK MoD,US DOD,Canadian DND,Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Met Office. Nexor designed and deployed the first public Internet search engine ALIWEB and the associated robots exclusion standard. Nexor is a contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force, having worked on Internet RFCs 1086, 1165, 1488, 1606 and 1778. Nexor developed a Microsoft Exchange Client for Unix. Nexor was the first organisation to be awarded the Intellect Best Practice Certificate. Nexor has run regular demonstrations at the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration. Nexor the first organisation to achieve TickItPlus a quality-management certification program for software development. Nexor have strategic partnerships with Boldon James and QinetiQ. Nexor's Data Diode product is supplied via an OEM relationship with Fox-IT. Nexor is a supplier on the UK Government G-Cloud Cloudstore, and an Official cyber security supplier to the UK Government. Nexor won 2013 DSEi innovation challenge.
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