André Daus

André is based in Cologne, Germany, with over 25 years in banking and financial risk management. He built his reputation on a single move: walking into a room and challenging the comfortable assumptions that keep organizations blind to their own vulnerabilities.

André applies “Red Team” thinking to the human element of security: the adversarial mindset that stress-tests business assumptions and organizational behavior before reality forces a change. He also hosts Iconoclast Insights, a podcast that challenges conventional thinking in business and society.

On The Human Perimeter, André works on the “why” behind attacks. He helps listeners see how their brains, their social context, and their workplace cultures create the loopholes that cybercriminals exploit every day. The perspective comes from two decades of adversarial stress-testing inside the financial sector.