Henix Cybersecurity
About Henix Cybersecurity
Henix Cybersecurity is the cybersecurity division of FortiFind Company. FortiFind is the parent technology company; Henix is where its security engineering happens.
Its own home
Henix Cybersecurity now has its own site: HCF, Henix Cybersecurity FortiFind.
Tools, advisories, research, services and the Academy are moving to hcf.fortifind.org.
Charter
Henix builds defensive security software and studies how systems fail, so that the people responsible for those systems can find and fix weaknesses before someone else does.
Rules every Henix tool follows
- Authorization first. Tools that touch a system or network require the user to own it or have explicit permission, and make that requirement visible.
- Non-destructive by default. Checks observe and report. They do not exploit, modify or disrupt.
- Bounded scope. Targets are validated before any connection, and private or out-of-scope addresses are refused rather than silently tested.
- Honest results. A tool reports what it observed and what it could not check. Automated checks cannot prove that a system is secure, and Henix tools do not claim to.
- Auditability. Where actions matter, they are logged so they can be reviewed later.
Relationship to FortiFind
Henix Cybersecurity is one of several FortiFind divisions alongside AI, software, network engineering and systems. Security principles developed in Henix are shared across FortiFind's other products.