Our purpose

Vulnerability is our business and our cause: we protect against its risks, we fight those who try to exploit it, and we value it as an individual and collective potential for creating value.

Since 2021, we have been building a new approach to value sharing and a global performance business model that integrates economic, social, and environmental dimensions into its strategy in an inseparable way.

It is structured around two entities:

• Advens, a French cybersecurity company founded by Alexandre Fayeulle in 2000;
• Advens for People and Planet, an endowment fund also created by Alexandre Fayeulle in 2021.

Thanks to a financial retrocession mechanism indexed to Advens’ growth, the more our company grows, the more it contributes to the financing of the Advens for People and Planet endowment fund to deploy societal initiatives of general interest. This model enables us to fulfill our purpose, the fundamental principle that guides all our actions and decisions.

“Advens is a European leader in cybersecurity that wants to help tackle the cyber, environmental, and social challenges of our time. In May 2024, we will become a mission-driven company and the first French company to put vulnerability at the heart of its raison d’être. Vulnerability is not something to be ashamed of, but a superpower to be unleashed, essential for tackling the major challenges of today and tomorrow. We are demonstrating a business model in which economic, social, and environmental value creation are inseparable and grow together.”

Alexandre Fayeulle, President & Founder, Advens

“Recognizing the vulnerabilities of your systems and organization is the only way to better protect yourself against cyber threats. Through its various business lines, Advens supports its clients in France and around the world in understanding and managing their vulnerabilities, to build a more secure digital environment and more resilient organizations.”

“This model supports projects in three areas: education and inclusion, democracy and digital technology, and the new economy and sustainability. These non-profit projects with high environmental and social added value serve our purpose and prove that digital technology can be a catalyst for solutions with a positive impact. This pioneering model ensures that 100% of Advens’ employees, customers, investors, and partners contribute to the achievement of its mission for the common good.”

“Vulnerability is not only at the heart of our purpose and our cyber offerings, it is also a new way of working together, so that empathy and inclusion are not just words, but forces that drive our missions. Transforming society by helping to change how we view vulnerability is what allows us to take a different look at performance without compromising on excellence.”

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Our impact partners

Our first commitments to Cyber, People, and Planet

Commitment

Make Cyber more accessible

Commitment

Make Cyber more accessible

Data security is a good, everyone has the right to it. Protecting the world means protecting organizations of all types and sizes, not to mention t…

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Commitment

Inclusion & Cyber

Commitment

Inclusion & Cyber

Today, two million young people french are in great difficulty: without a job or without housing or without education, among whom certainly hundred…

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Commitment

LinkedOut accelerated by Advens

Commitment

LinkedOut accelerated by Advens

Since the beginning of 2020, Advens has been offering the visibility and naming of its boat to LinkedOut, a positive tech device created by the Ent…

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