BforeAI Awards and Industry Recognitions by Gartner

BforeAI is a predictive security and preemptive cyber defense pioneer that protects customers’ external attack surfaces.

Our technology has been recognized as a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor, 2025 Emerging Tech for AI-Based Predictive Threat Intelligence, and continues to be selected by leading innovation programs such as Gartner Hype Cycles, Market Guides, and more. These industry recognitions validate our leadership in predictive AI and threat intelligence. Predict and stop attacks, now. 

BforeAI recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Cool Vendors™

for Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Investment Services

We started by bringing a solution that automatically predicts and preemptively disrupts and takes down external asset attacks before they harm our clients and their customers. Now, we have extended our vision to create solutions for another challenge in the cybersecurity industry: credit card and PII fraud.

We have already been recognized by Gartner as pioneers in the emerging Preemptive Fraud Detection category. We’re honored to now be recognized as a Gartner® Cool Vendor, and we believe our approach will break paradigms in securing the financial industry.

From the Gartner Cool Vendor report: “By working outside the standard payment cycle in this way, before any transactions (such as payments or other funds transfers) have been made, BforeAI can alert clients so they can intervene before criminals sell credentials stolen from the victims.”

That IS pretty cool, huh?

What our customers say about our PreCrime™ products on Gartner Peer Insights​™

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BforeAI has been widely mentioned in 30+
Gartner® publications.

Our view is that PreCrime™ technology consistently stands out across market categories in the revolutionary field of predictive security.

We are a pioneer in the following categories:

BforeAI is a pioneer is the preemptive cyber defense category
BforeAI is a pioneer is the predictive threat intelligence category
BforeAI is a pioneer is the preemptive fraud detection category

Gartner Recognitions by Market Category

BforeAI for Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS)

“DRPS aim to associate all malign activity on the public internet related to your organization, enrich those findings with threat and business context, and perform technical responses to evict certain threats when possible (takedowns).”

Hype Cycle for Managed IT Services by Jess Aggio, Danellie Young, 9 July 2024

BforeAI for Preemptive Security, Preemptive Cyber Defense (PCD)

“Preemptive cyber defense technologies are on track to disrupt the overall cybersecurity market. Product leaders must start adopting a preemptive cyber defense strategy by leveraging the top use cases discussed here or risk getting left behind in the market.”

Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases in Preemptive Cyber Defense, 13 August 2024

BforeAI for Predictive Security, Threat Intelligence, and Predictive Threat Intelligence (PTI)

“Threat intelligence will evolve to expand security content coverage and support security operations activities relating to continuous threat exposure management programs. Product leaders should recognize that AI/GenAI will increasingly be a critical component of such evolution and plan accordingly.”

Emerging Tech: The Future of Cyberthreat Intelligence by Ruggero Contu, John Collins, Jonathan Nunez, 7 August 2024

BforeAI for Security Operations (SecOps)

“Security operations technology and services defend IT/OT systems, cloud workloads, applications and other digital assets from attack by identifying threats, vulnerability and exposures.”

Hype Cycle for Security Operations, by Jonathan Nunez, Andrew Davies, 29 July 2024

BforeAI for Disinformation Security

“Disinformation security is an expanding category of technologies and practices aimed at providing methodological approaches for discerning trust, assessing truth and tracking the spread of information. Enterprise use cases for technologies within this domain include: (…) brand reputation.” 

Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2025: Disinformation Security, by Dan Ayoub and Akif Khan, 21 October 2024

BforeAI for Preemptive Fraud Detection

“Prefraud signals provide important contextual insights that are often outside the purview of the organization or OFD platform. This practice describes the importance of integrating prefraud signals into systems and processes for more holistic organization attack surface management and critical portions of the user journey.”

Emerging Tech: 5 Elements to Prevent Digital Commerce Fraud by Lawrence Pingree, Carl Manion, Mark Pohto, Travis Lee, Rustam Malik, Ruggero Contu, Dan Ayoub, Dave Messett, 15 February 2023

BforeAI for Banking Financials and Investment Services

“Preemptive fraud detection includes technologies that can proactively seek and identify suspicious behavior or anomalous events that indicate financial crime BEFORE the fraudulent transactions (payments, funds transfers, etc.) actually occur.”

Hype Cycle for Financial Crime by Vatsal Sharma, Pete Redshaw, 31 July 2024

BforeAI for Cyber Security Mesh Architecture (CSMA)

“CSMA is an approach for architecting composable, distributed security controls to improve security visibility, intelligence and effectiveness.” 

The Future of Security Architecture Is Here: Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture 3.0 (CSMA), by Patrick Hevesi and Mary Ruddy, 09 June 2025

BforeAI's PreCrime Guarantee

“With increasing competition, building relationships and trust is critical when it comes to differentiating in the security market. Investments (…) even include commitments in their contracts and SLAs, such as a money-back guarantee.”

Emerging Tech: Techscape for Detection and Response Startups, by Esha Bhatia and Apeksha Kaushik, 19 March 2025

Covered by the PreCrime™ Guarantee – 10x the peace of mind.

In case your organization experiences any impact due to a mistake by our predictions, your incurred costs may be covered up to 10x the amount of your service contract. We partner with Munich Re to give you 10x the peace of mind.

BforeAI believes these recognitions are a direct result of what security and fraud teams have been able to achieve with our help, and we are encouraged to continue improving our predictive intelligence and preemptive measures against online threats.

BforeAI Recognitions by Gartner Document Type

Gartner Cool Vendor 2024

“By working outside the standard payment cycle in this way, before any transactions (such as payments or other funds transfers) have been made, BforeAI can alert clients so they can intervene before criminals sell credentials stolen from the victims.”

Gartner, Cool Vendors for Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Investment Services, by Jasleen Kaur Sindhu, Uri Lerner, Pete Redshaw, 6 November 2024.

Gartner Hype Cycles 2023-2024

“By 2027, 40% of global organizations will extend director and officer (D&O) insurance to cybersecurity leaders, due to the increasing personal legal exposure associated with cyber-incident management.”

Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management by Michael Kranawetter, Jie Zhang, Pedro Pablo Perea de Duenas, 22 July 2024

Gartner Market Guides 2023

“Aggregation, management and operationalization of threat intelligence are the core use cases addressed by TIPs.”

Market Guide for Security Threat Intelligence Products and Services by Jonathan Nunez, Ruggero Contu, Mitchell Schneider, 4 May 2023

Gartner Emerging Tech Reports 2022-2025

“Combine threat intelligence security services with proprietary fraud decision-making platform signals, open-source data and digital risk protection services to develop highly targeted fraud intelligence capabilities.”

Emerging Tech: GenAI Security Services for Online Fraud Prevention, 21 May 2024

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Gartner, Cool Vendors for Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Investment Services, by Jasleen Kaur Sindhu, Uri Lerner, Pete Redshaw, 6 November 2024.


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