A Career Built Inside Networks
Daniela Casetta, Some position at FUNdamental networking, shares insights from Risk-!n 2026, where interviewer Philippe Séjalon sat down with Théo Tourletty, founder and CEO of Avantis. With years of experience as an ethical hacker auditing banks in Geneva, Tourletty built his career by penetrating corporate networks, uncovering vulnerabilities, and reporting them to CISOs for rapid remediation.
Pivoting from Service to Software
Now, Tourletty has made a bold transition — moving from consulting services to building a product. Avantis is a startup centered on a honeypot-based platform designed to help security teams detect every intrusion with no false positives. The goal: give CISOs a reliable, automated early-warning system against internal threats.
What Exactly Is a Honeypot?
In simple terms, a honeypot is a decoy server that mimics the behavior of real infrastructure — a Windows laptop, a Windows server, or a FortiGate appliance. When an attacker infiltrates a network, they inevitably conduct an enumeration phase, scanning every machine on every port. This guarantees interaction with the decoys, triggering an alert the moment a threat actor moves laterally inside the network.
Automated Detection and Incident Response
Once a hacker hits a honeypot, Avantis integrates seamlessly with any SIEM or firewall. Alerts are forwarded through log pipelines to automate detection and incident response, enabling security teams to resolve threats as quickly as possible — turning a breach attempt into a controlled, traceable event.
Discover Avantis
Avantis is an emerging cybersecurity startup founded by ethical hacking veteran Théo Tourletty. The company specializes in honeypot-based deception technology designed to provide CISOs with zero-false-positive intrusion detection. By emulating real network assets, Avantis ensures attackers are identified the moment they enter an internal network. Its platform integrates natively with leading SIEM solutions and firewalls, automating both detection and incident response. Avantis represents the next generation of proactive enterprise security.
More at Avantis and on their LinkedIn page.
