Pinewood

Pinewood is a security-only managed services provider based in Delft, Netherlands, running a Security Operations Center that provides continuous monitoring, detection, and response for customer networks, alongside advisory services covering information security management systems, network security architecture, and compliance programs. Rather than selling a proprietary detection product, Pinewood’s business is the operational labor and expertise of running security monitoring and incident response on behalf of customers who lack the in-house staff to do it themselves—a model similar to other specialist security MSSPs.

Founded in 1994, Pinewood has built nearly three decades of continuous operation in the Dutch security-services market and has grown to roughly 130-150 employees, a meaningful scale for a regional MSSP. The company was acquired by Solimas Groep in January 2021, folding Pinewood into a larger security-services holding group while it continues to operate under its own brand and SOC.

Because Pinewood delivers security-only managed services rather than a bundled generic-IT/MSP contract, and does not resell unrelated telecom or hardware lines, its offering fits squarely in the security-operations category. Its differentiation versus larger, more geographically dispersed MSSPs is depth of focus on the Dutch/Benelux mid-market, with an emphasis on both technical monitoring and the organizational/human side of security programs (training, awareness, and governance) rather than technology alone.