From Cybercrime Victim to Cybersecurity Expert
From Cybercrime Victim to Cybersecurity Expert
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Discover how John Sileo's harrowing cybercrime experience transformed him into a leading cybersecurity expert, safeguarding your organization from costly breaches.
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Keynote Speaker John Sileo is a highly sought-after expert in cybersecurity, celebrated for his profound insights into both the technical and human aspects of securing organizational assets. His personal journey, marked by the loss of his million-dollar startup, significant wealth, and two years of his life due to a fraudulent insider’s cybercrime, highlights the critical importance of robust security measures and vigilance. This harrowing experience, which saw him held legally and financially accountable while fighting to clear his name, has fueled his passion for cybersecurity and shaped his compelling approach to keynote speaking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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John is part of our secret sauce to connect the human aspects of security at all of our five campus conferences.
If we could quantify the impact of John’s cyber security presentation on our attendees, it would likely be in the millions.
Sileo’s security awareness training stopped $300,000 in fraud just days after his presentation.
John is a certified risk killer worth every penny.
John’s keynote was a key reason why this year’s conference was the best.
John was a HUGE hit and everyone loved him! I have never seen a keynote make such a big impact.
Kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. We’d recommend him speaking everywhere.
Awesome security presentation! Perfect for closing the conference.
Highly inspiring, informative and FUN.
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