Philipp, Marc and Benjamin founded emproof in 2017 at the leading IT-security Horst-Görtz Institute for IT-Sicherheit (HGI) in Bochum, Germany. Prior to emproof, the founders worked together on academic projects focusing on advanced reverse engineering and advanced security analyses, for example reverse engineering of the microcode of AMD x86 CPUs. They founded emproof to apply their profound knowledge of software security, reverse engineering and obfuscation create innovative and effective protection for embedded systems.