The Team

Built by practitioners.
For real business.

We started Aldven because we saw too many businesses — from startups to established firms — running infrastructure with serious, avoidable vulnerabilities. We're here to change that.

Our Foundation

Security practitioners,
not salespeople.

Every person at Aldven has spent time on the inside — inside financial institutions, telecoms companies, tech businesses, and SME environments. We've seen what good security looks like. We've also seen how rarely it's implemented well, especially in cloud.

No account managers fronting for junior consultants. When you work with Aldven, you work directly with the engineers doing the work.

  • Former security leads from major UK financial institutions
  • Cloud engineers who've built and secured infrastructure at scale
  • Practitioners with direct experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Incident responders who've handled ransomware, APTs, and data breaches
  • Compliance specialists with deep knowledge of UK and EU regulatory frameworks
Our Story

Why we
built Aldven.

Aldven was founded in 2026 by a team of former enterprise security and cloud engineers who had spent their careers inside large financial institutions, the telecommunications sector, major tech companies, and SME contractors.

We had seen what good security looked like — and how rarely it was implemented properly, especially in cloud environments. The same mistakes, the same gaps, the same "we'll get to it" attitude toward critical vulnerabilities.

We set out to make that level of protection accessible to any business with cloud infrastructure — whether you're a 10-person startup on AWS or a 100-person firm running a complex hybrid environment.

The Team

Security practitioners,
not salespeople.

P
CEO & Founder
Pawel, CISSP, CCSP
Pawel is a cloud and security leader with over 20 years of experience as both an manager and hands-on engineer, backed by CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security, and GCP Security and Architeture Profesional certifications.He bridges engineering, cloud, business, and security teams — translating complex technical and security challenges into clear business outcomes. Equally comfortable solving problems at the architecture level or engaging with C-level leadership, Pawel brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic perspective.
J
Security Consultant
John, CISSP, CCSP
M
Cloud Security Consultant
Mark
What We Stand For

Our principles,
plain and simple.

01
Evidence, Not Assumptions
We base every recommendation on what we can prove — not what we suspect. Every audit starts from scratch. We don't arrive with a pre-written report waiting to be populated with your name.
02
Plain English Always
Security jargon serves no one. We explain every finding, every risk, and every fix in terms your board can understand. If you can't explain it plainly, you don't understand it well enough.
03
We Fix, Not Just Report
We implement, not just advise. Our engineers can do the work — you don't need to hire a separate team to action our findings. We see every engagement through to resolution.
04
Accessible Security
Enterprise security shouldn't require an enterprise budget. We build packages every serious business can afford. Good security is a right, not a luxury reserved for the largest organisations.
Work with people who know what they're doing

Start with a conversation.
No sales pitch.

Just security expertise, applied honestly to your situation.

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