Ibas (company)

The Norway company Ibas AS (an acronym of its former name, Instrumentbyrået AS, The Instrument Bureau Ltd ), founded in 1978, is Europe s largest business in the market of data recovery, data erasure, and computer forensics. It is listed as IBAS on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Headquartered in the town of Kongsvinger, in Hedmark county, Ibas has subsidiaries in Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Poland, and Singapore, with a total of roughly 90 employees combined (not counting Vogon—see below). The company is mostly known for performing difficult data recovery and computer forensics services at its on-site laboratories, using its in-house customised hardware and software tools, but also develops and sells software allowing customers to securely erase data at their own locations.

In the spring of 2005, Ibas announced that it was acquiring privately-owned British competitor (the non-UK offices being wholly-owned subsidiaries).

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*[http://www.ibas.com/ Ibas AS official company website] *[http://www.ibas.com/press/articles/IBAS-2005-04-11 Ibas acquires European competitor Vogon] – Ibas press release, 11 April 2005 *[http://www.vogon-international.com/ Vogon International Ltd website]