Gen Digital : Social Impact Report (Gen Social Impact Report 2025)
GEN
Published on 06/17/2025 at 04:48
Contents
03 Introduction
Letter from our CEO, Vincent Pilette
Q&A with Board member, Sue Barsamian
2025 performance highlights
06 Our Business
Powering Digital Freedom
About Gen
Social Impact@Gen
Our products
Governance & ethics
24 Our People
Powering Passion & Purpose
Elevating talent
Health & safety
Belonging
33 Our World
Powering Protection at Scale
Digital education & training
Volunteering & giving
Supporting a healthy planet
46 Appendix
Data tables
Content index
At Gen, we remain focused on leading the market today, providing financial empowerment and defining the future of consumer Cyber Safety, united behind our ambitious purpose: Powering Digital Freedom. In 2025,' we turned bold ideas into reality, pushed boundaries and served our mission of delivering innovative, secure and easy-to-use solutions to people around the world.
We continued to meet people's evolving needs to provide peace of mind for both personal data protection and financial safety.
Ultimately, we want people to make the most of the digital world; and to do this, trust must be built into our DNA, the core of who we are and what we do. It's vital in all areas of our business: among customers, employees and stakeholders. It is reflected through our daily actions, the products, company and culture
we cultivate - one that prioritizes our customers, our people
and our world.
We create technology solutions that help consumers confidently manage and protect their digital and financial well-being. This year, more than 8,700 nonprofits protected themselves with our products, a retail value of nearly $1.9 million. We have developed and provided online safety tools for people with increased risk of cyberattacks, such as victims of domestic violence. We continued expanding our approach to, and tools for, using Al-powered products with integrity, transparency and accountability. We're bringing our expertise to global conversations at the intersection of responsible
Al and digital safety, digital identity protection, cybersecurity skills training and more.
At Gen, we work with people for people; our values unite and guide us as we power our passion, purpose and energy to drive outcomes
and win. We've expanded skills development resources to bring 30,000 on-demand learning modules, as well as Al-powered coaching and support tools to our employees. Our launch of Leading@Gen and Learn@Gen expands opportunities to learn and progress at all levels.
We continue to build a pipeline of cybersecurity talent around the world through partnerships with Women4Cyber, Czechitas, Nasscom and our Gen Testing Academy in Czechia.
We invest our products, technology and resources in our local communities to power protection at scale and help provide people with the tools they need to live freely in the digital world. In 2025, 67% of our employees participated in our volunteering and giving programs, exceeding our goal of 60%, surpassing that of our peers and demonstrating the strength of our culture. We directed the majority of our grant funding to digital education and training programs. Through these initiatives, in 2025 we educated and empowered more than 5.4 million individuals to stay safe online, reaching more than 13.6 million people to date.
We continued to minimize our impacts on the planet, decreasing total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3) by 12%. To date, 4,000 projects have been completed by our employees through our Sustainable Home Improvement Program (SHIP). 98% of our products are delivered digitally, and less than 0.5% of the materials used in our global physical products contain plastic.
The positive impact of our programming continues to stand out - this year, we were recognized as one of America's Greatest Workplaces, one of America's Most Responsible Companies and we received two Excellence in Corporate Responsi ty Communitas Awards for our environmental and community initiatives.
I am always looking at the natural evolution of our company - the most responsible approach Gen can have as a citizen of our world. As a family of brands, we remain committed to Powering Digital Freedom for the next generation of digital life. We are creating innovative and easy-to-use technology solutions that are helping people grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives.
We will keep pushing forward to a future that is bright and full of possi ties.
Our People
Appendix 03
Kim Allman, tead of Corporate Responsibility & Public Policy at Gen, sat down with Sue Barsamian, Board Member and Nominating & Governance Committee Chair, to discuss how social impact at Gen is helping create a value-generating, purpose-focused business.
Kim: Technology, cybersecurity and the responsible business landscape are all in a period of dramatic growth and change. The business, political and social drivers for corporate responsibility are evolving. How do you see Gen continuing to align social impact to its business when the industry is evolving so rapidly?
Sue: While the cybersecurity landscape is changing as swihly as ever, Gen remains rooted in our mission to help people grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives. Social impact is critical to this. It provides a framework through which we build tru5t and bring value to our stakeholders - from customers to investors to employees, members of our communities and beyond.
Social impact does not operate in a silo, quite the opposite. Every aspect of our social impact strategy aligns to our business objectives. For example, in 2025 we expanded our Al governance approach, which is embedded into our current governance and
compliance program to promote the protection and quality of data
through our use of Al.
Our social impact priorities are determined through emphasizing issues most relevant to our business as well as those that most significantly impact our communities and the world. We engage with investors, Gen leadership, community issue experts and more to determine the priorities. We are now expanding this to consider double materiality, for a deeper understanding of how responsible business topics impact us financially. We also engage senior leaders, and benchmark best practices and peer efforts to develop targets that make sense for the business.
Kim: Let's talk about your specific role. How does the Board engage with social impact at Gen?
Sue: We know that our commitment to social impact contributes to our long-term sustainability as a business. The Board is actively involved, helping shape the overall strategy and overseeing its implementation. We also facilitate collaboration.
We meet regularly with leaders from the People & Culture, Brand & Marketing, Global Health & Wellness, Product and Supply Chain teams to coordinate efforts and help make social impact truly cross-functional. We also, along with the full Board, receive quarterly updates on things like performance data, progress made towards our social impact targets, information on emerging responsible business topics and so on.
Kim: The regulatory environment for corporate responsibility is changing quickly. What stands out to you in how Gen is managing its strategy across regions with diKering stakeholder and
regulatory expectations?
Sue: We are in a turbulent yet pivotal time for corporate responsibility. The pace and trajectory of regulatory developments are challenging to forecast, due in part to a complex political and sociocultural landscape - especially for a dual-headquartered company. The diKerence across regions is therefore a reality that most companies are grappling with. It has pressed us to be clear where regulatory requirements exist and to decide what our bar will be globally - whether that's due to regulation or business drivers. Involvement from leaders across our business is now necessary. In 2025, Gen created a cross-functional compliance working group. The working group brings together our Corporate Responsibility, Legal, Finance and People & Culture teams to address the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in Europe and climate
reporting rules taking shape in certain states in the U.S. and around the
world. Our teams are working together to prepare, find solutions, uncover new channels of communication and think in new ways about how we operate.
Kim: Finally, when you look at the past year in Sociallmpact, what is most exciting to you?
Sue: For me, it's the level of interest at every level of the company. Gen is inherently purpose-driven. From our conversations at the Board level to our consistently high employee engagement, it's clear that social impact is something we are personally passionate about across our global sites. It's a crucial market diKerentiator, a boon to our communities and one of the key enablers of our Purpose to Power Digital Freedom.
Introduction Our Business Our People Our World Appendix 04
employee engagement in volunteering and giving
people reached through our digital education and training programs
in charitable giving
nonprofits received product donations, totaling $1.87M USD
of active employees completed
our Code of Conduct training
projects completed through the
Sustainable Home Improvement Program
reduction in total GHG
emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3)
women in our
global workforce
Awards & recognition
Introduction Our Business Our People Our World Appendix 05
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Gen Digital Inc. published this content on June 16, 2025, and is solely responsible for the information contained herein. Distributed via Public Technologies (PUBT), unedited and unaltered, on June 17, 2025 at 08:47 UTC.