About
Training defenders for AI-driven bot and fraud threats.
Bot Defense Academy is a practical education project for security and fraud practitioners who need to understand adversarial automation in production, because AI agents, synthetic identities, scripted abuse, and fraud workflows are moving faster than traditional training can keep up.
Founder
Earl Potters
AI fraud specialist · Founder
Earl Potters is an AI fraud specialist at JPMorganChase and the founder of Bot Defense Academy. His work sits at the practical edge of fraud detection, adversarial automation, bot defense, and the operational decisions teams make when abusive traffic reaches real users.
- Discipline
- AI fraud detection · Adversarial automation
- Affiliation
- JPMorganChase
- Project
- Bot Defense Academy · Independent education
Why this exists
AI changed the speed of bot and fraud defense. Defenders need a shared map of the territory—in plain language, drawn from production.
Founding thesis · Bot Defense Academy
Bot abuse is no longer limited to brittle scripts and obvious traffic spikes. AI-assisted systems can generate content, vary behavior, scale account creation, support synthetic identity workflows, and adapt fraud playbooks quickly enough to overwhelm teams that only learn from vendor dashboards or incident retrospectives.
Bot Defense Academy is built to teach that map: how automated abuse is assembled, how browser and network signals behave, how friction and enforcement decisions affect real users, and how to explain the trade-offs without resorting to slogans.
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Two paths forward in your mission.
Two entry points · Curriculum and methodology
Curriculum
Explore the learning paths
Review the public sequence, outcomes, prerequisites, and assessment artifacts behind the academy curriculum.
Methodology
How the curriculum is built
Drafting cadence, review principles, lab validation, and how the academy keeps the material tied to production practice.
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