Andre Piazza

Pioneering predictive brand protection across five Fortune 500s in manufacturing (Signify), banking (Volksbank), SaaS (Atlassian), retail (Primark), and investment banking, Andre delivered takedown cycles from weeks to less than 7 minutes, 41 threats prevented pre-weaponization, 80% attack reduction, and $35M+ losses prevented. His predictive approach has protected 15M+ victims worldwide, independently measured by Quad9. Andre's methodologies collect proper signals (DNS, BGP, ASNs, IPs, cloud movement), forecast maliciousness using random forest ML models, and automate workflows with human guardrails. These free security teams for higher-priority strategic work while maintaining 99.95% accuracy and 3-week median lead time, as independently measured by DNSFilter.  

Andre led BforeAI's recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2024. A contributor to 40+ industry analyst mentions, he pioneered five cybersecurity categories. As first Product Manager at BforeAI, a startup accelerated by Google, CrowdStrike, and AWS, he grew predictive threat intelligence from concept to Series B scale serving 50+ enterprises.  

As an experienced presenter, Andre designs sessions to be interactive, engaging, and thought-provoking, structured around vendor-neutral, evidence-based defense strategies. His talks contain real lessons learned and practical tools. His goal is to empower security communities with awareness and actionable countermeasures against AI-enabled, sentiment-driven attacks.  

An active conference speaker including BSides Seattle 2026, Cyber Marketing Con 2024, and Executive Women in Texas Government (EWTG), Andre bridges practitioners and leaders to build predictive security communities rooted in measurable outcomes. At SANS AI Summit, he'll share best practices learned pioneering predictive AI.

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