John Sileo’s identity was stolen from his business and used to embezzle almost a half-million dollars from his clients. While the thief covered his crimes using Sileo’s identity, John and his business were held legally and financially responsible for the felonies committed. The breach destroyed John’s corporation and consumed two years of his life as he fought to stay out of jail. But John chose to fight back and speak out.

Emerging from this crisis, John became America’s leading professional speaker on playing agressive information offense, including identity theft prevention, social media exposure, data breach, cyber security, human manipulation and online reputation management. John is the award-winning author of Stolen Lives, The Facebook Safety Survival Guide and Privacy Means Profit (Wiley), and has recently appeared on 60 Minutes and Fox and Friends, for which he is a regular contributor.

Weaving his story together with cutting-edge research, disarming humor and hilarious audience interaction, John inspires data security from the inside out – building a foundation of personal protection with the purpose of expanding into the workplace. Information is the corporation’s most profitable asset – but it is human beings who defend it. By unleashing skills of instinct, curiosity, and prioritization, Sileo unconventionally empowers audiences to take control of sensitive data and bulletproof their bottom line before it’s too late.

John’s satisfied clients include the Department of Defense, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the FDIC, Pfizer, the Federal Trade Commission, Lincoln Financial, the Department of Homeland Security, AARP, Prudential, the Federal Reserve Bank, and scores of corporations, universities, and associations of all sizes.

John is President of The Sileo Group, which coaches organizations to thrive in the ever-changing world of information domination. He graduated from Harvard University with honors and spends his free time focusing on his wife and daughters.

Think Like A Spy: Defending Identity, Bulletproofing Your Bottom Line

Identity theft is America’s fastest growing crime, a massive share of the costs falling to organizations like yours. Information is power, the foundation of most personal wealth and corporate profitability. If you fail to defend yourself, others will control your data: identity thieves, hackers, competitors, social engineers, and cyber spies.

The solution begins with the individual: it is imperative to engage your audience emotionally, to gain their “privacy buy-in”, before you ask them to protect corporate information assets. This high-content presentation is the perfect bridge between good personal privacy habits and safer corporate data. In it, John’s delivers fundamental skills to defend sensitive information, both personally and professionally.

In Think Like a Spy, your audience will master:

• How to overcome the #1 Obstacle to Data Privacy
• Interrogation Tools to detect and avoid fraud
• How to Think Like a Spy and apply espionage techniques to data protection
• The Top 5 Social Engineering Triggers and how to defeat them
• Risk-Scenario Training that makes safe data-handling a habit, not an afterthought
• Targeting the Enemy: an action plan to minimize risk with less work
• Practical Skills that bridge personal prevention and professional privacy