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John Sileo
John Sileo lost everything - his multi-million-dollar business, life savings, and two years as an absent dad - to cybercriminals who stole his identity and used it to commit a series of crimes. Wrongly implicated, in financial ruin, and facing jail time, John rose from the digital rubble with a mission: to turn his personal loss into a powerful force for good.
Today, he’s a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, award-winning author, and trusted cybersecurity expert to organizations like the Pentagon, Amazon, and Schwab. John has appeared on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper and in the Wall Street Journal to share his message of security and resilience. One of his true-life stories even inspired a blockbuster Hollywood film. John is the CEO of The Sileo Group, a frequent board advisor, and a Harvard honors graduate. But his accomplishments have always taken a back seat to the time he…
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Savvy Security in a World of Weaponized AI
Artificial Intelligence makes hacking your organization easier. Generative A.I. models evolved from ChatGPT give novice cybercriminals free tools to code malware, create adaptive ransomware, and author sophisticated phishing emails around the clock. Deepfake videos imitate people in power to manipulate your performance, profits and reputation while disinformation campaigns blur the lines of trust. And quantum computing is about to render current defenses nearly useless. Are you prepared? While technology is also part of the solution, it is not the primary answer to the quiz. In this keynote, cyber expert John Sileo leverages his experience of losing everything to cybercrime to bridge the security gap between human beings, technology and rapidly emerging threats.
The Art of Human Hacking: Social Engineering Self Defense
Anti-fraud and social engineering training only work when your people experience it first-hand. Humans can be the weakest link or the strongest competitive advantage in the security of your information. But people are often the most underutilized weapon in your fight against cybercrime. In this keynote, John shares his own losses at the hands of social engineering to illustrate the tools and tricks used to separate you from your critical data, including: System 1 & 2 reflexes, social media harvesting, trust shortcuts, ego stroking, greed appeals, and cortisol flushing. By John’s closing story, you will be fully empowered to detect and deter social engineering and fraud.
Blockbuster Cybersecurity in a Zero-Trust World
Hackers don’t just adapt to change; they bank on it. Has your mindset evolved? The rapid expansion of remote workforces, ransomware gangs, cloud jacking, IoT hacking, supply chain attacks, social engineering and disinformation campaigns have altered the way we must defend our data, reputation, and profits. Cybersecurity doesn’t grow from shinier tools, but from the powerful intersection between humans and technology. In this keynote, John leverages potent lessons learned from losing everything to cybercrime and decades of real-world experience to build a Blockbuster Framework for analyzing, organizing, and communicating your powerful cyber defense strategy.
Building a Bulletproof Culture of Security: A Crash Course for Business Leaders
To avoid becoming the next disastrous data-breach headline, you must foster a culture of security that addresses both the technological and human elements of data defense. Change happens when you create buy-in among the people who handle your mission-critical information. You can’t possibly do everything, so you must do the right things. This crash course forges a high-level, non-technical path through cybersecurity. It is a highly interactive presentation that leverages John’s first-hand experience of losing everything to cybercrime, continues with a live hacking demo of an audience member’s smartphone and ends with a Blockbuster Framework of Leadership Next Steps.
Think Like a Spy
Aggressive Identity Theft & Fraud Countermeasures. Identity theft and online fraud are destructive side effects of information over-exposure. Due to the power of personally identifying information, we must leverage formidable tools to protect everything from Social Security numbers to bank accounts, from passwords to intellectual property. John delivers those exact tools in a highly interactive, surprisingly humorous presentation inspired by his personal loss of more than $300,000, his business and two years to the ruthless consequences of identity theft. John will help your audience to “own” their identities—to take responsibility for their sensitive data. Developing a personal, emotional connection to data protection benefits everyone’s bottom line.
Small Business Cybersecurity: A Data Defense Plan
Cyber Security Crash Course
Digital Defense for Non-Technical Leaders. At the heart of most data theft is lax cyber security: a broad term that will cease to intimidate you after this presentation. Technology evolves so quickly that people fall behind the digital curve and feel overwhelmed by the prospect of protecting the very data that underlies their wealth. In this state, decision makers tend to freeze, make excuses and assume that there is no reasonable, cost-effective way to protect their data. That assumption is both wrong and dangerous. This crash course forges a high-level, non-technical path through the sometimes confusing web of computer security, mobile technology, Internet connectivity, online privacy and cloud computing. In cyber security, you don’t have to do everything, just the right things. John’s presentation focuses on these triggers, including the most critical aspect of cyber security – human behavior.
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