Robert Siciliano

Featured Keynote Programs

Every week, Robert Siciliano inevitably hears from a distressed financial advisor who has to rescue a client whose accounts have been compromised. The fact is, your moneyed clients are big targets—and they aren’t necessarily cyber savvy.

Bankers, financial advisors, wealth and asset managers, and investment and financial planners are all in the business of making their clients more money and profiting from their good money advice. But what happens when a client’s account is compromised by an outside source? Your clients turn to you and wonder why you never provided them with the advice or tools to protect themselves and their assets. Now, you can reduce victimization by partnering with your clients in another way: preventing fraud.

As a financial professional, you are perfectly positioned to inform and educate your clients on the easiest and most effective ways to keep their data secure and their identities protected. Equip your clients with the simple tools and effective information to make them secure, and you will be their trusted advisor for life.

In this presentation, Robert will help you:

Learn where the weak spots are in your clients’ knowledge of online fraud
Empower your customers to be their own security experts
Instill loyalty in your clients by providing them with 360-awareness of not only their financial situation but also their security situation

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn are popular social networking sites in both the personal and professional lives of business leaders and their employees. However, the risks we face from sharing too much information are substantial—from personal security to damaged reputations to significant business liabilities that put all operations in jeopardy. It doesn’t matter whether you or your employees access these websites and apps on a company computer or a mobile device—the consequences of visiting them are very real when it comes to the privacy and security of a business.

How are you being judged online? What are people saying about you? Do you do business with someone based on how good or bad the reviews are? Do Amazon reviews sway you—and, on the other hand, has Yelp ruined you?

There has never been a better time to build a brand name—and there has never been a worse time to have yours torn down because of bad reviews. Social media encompasses all forms of digital communication and is a fantastic tool for syndicating your brand and getting it in front of your target market, but it’s also the voice of the people—and if you tick off the public, hell hath no fury like a Twitterer scorned.

In this presentation, Robert Siciliano will teach you how to:

Incorporate the fundamentals of Online Reputation Management
The implications of using social media, for individuals and businesses
How to mitigate the dangers of using these websites
How to cover your footprints when using social media
Devise a strategy to build a solid presence
Tactically respond to negative comments
Proactively ward off trolls
Implement processes and procedures for your employees to follow
Learn the tools you need to get your name out there
Understand what risks exist online
Secure your sites and protect your brand

In a high-tech, information-based economy, everything we do as a business is recorded and tracked or stolen by someone—whether by your competition, criminal hackers, or a domestic or foreign authority. Once extricated from your hands, the bad guys exploit your valuable information to their advantage or use it against you. It’s not fair, it’s ugly, it’s often illegal and it sucks—specifically, it sucks all the time, energy and effort away from your profits and can ruin your business and your reputation. A fundamental lack of control over your company’s data—via public Wi-Fi, thumb drives, smartphones, tablets, cloud data and social media websites—have changed the way businesses store, manage and share information—and if you aren’t keeping up, you are quickly going to lose control and put your data and corporate information at risk. Remember: You are either in control of your business’s cyber data or someone else is.

In this presentation, Robert Siciliano will show you and your staff how to:

Protect shared information, stored information, and any intellectual property—online or in the cloud
Be smart about computing on the go with your laptop, tablet and smartphone

Every few seconds, someone has his or her identity stolen. Computers are hacked, wallets are stolen, credit cards are compromised, credit is ruined…and the instigators make more in a day than most of us make in a year. The fact is, the system we function under is set up to fail—and unless consumers know their options, it’s just a matter of time before they are victimized themselves.

There is a reason why we keep hearing about data breaches involving millions of credit card and account numbers: Data breaches cost thousands to millions of dollars per incident, and organizations and corporations take on a huge potential financial loss when it comes to the potential of identity theft and data forfeiture. The bleeding will not stop anytime soon—and the more time you spend uninformed, the better your chances of being targeted.

During this presentation, Robert Siciliano will examine:

The clever ways thieves look for—and get—information
Numerous strategies you can protect your valuable data
How you can use various tools to ensure the data that criminals want are impossible to get

Every few seconds, someone’s identity is stolen because data is breached, computers are hacked, credit cards are compromised—and often, as a result, reputations are ruined. When this happens, fingers point at IT, other employees or problem clients. The fact is, the system we function under, combined with the conveniences of technology, is set up to fail due to flawed tech or simple scams. And unless employee and consumer behavior is fundamentally altered, it’s just a matter of time before those very employees and consumers all become victims. You may have heard of “security awareness”—and despite its buzzword status, it has not worked. Some studies show anywhere from 15 to 80 percent of consumers or employees still fall for phishing scams, even though they know the risks. Don’t get hooked.

In this presentation, Robert Siciliano will explain:

Why we fall for the same old tricks over and over again—and how to stop the cycle once and for all
The difference between security awareness and security appreciation
How to make your employees’ and clients’ data resistant to social engineering

Every few seconds, someone’s identity is stolen. Computers are hacked, wallets are stolen, credit cards are compromised and credit is ruined. The fact is, the system we function under is set up to fail—and unless consumers know their options, it’s just a matter of time before they are victimized themselves.

In the identity theft program, you will learn time- and money-saving techniques to prevent identity theft from taking over your life. Get the scoop on all the various automated tools consumers can set up to monitor their identities and secure their information, no matter whose hands it’s currently in. When you make your data and identity a tougher target to hit, you render it essentially useless to a thief.

In this presentation, Robert Siciliano will:

Share tricks of the trade and tools that people can use to take responsibility for their personal and business data
Explore the journey of “innocuous” paper or digital information—and how it can wind up in the wrong hands
Reverse-engineer criminals’ strategies to teach you how to use these strategies to protect yourself
And More:
Help co-workers, friends, and family stay safe.
Find out what puts you at risk.
Protect your Social Security (SS) number.
Identify sources that have your SS number
Protect mail and proprietary information.
Defend yourself against phone fraud.
Get a head start before the crime gets you.
Use high and low-tech means to protect yourself.
Respond in case you are victimized

Did you know mortgage and real estate fraud is one of the most profitable of all organized criminal acts? With buyers, sellers, mortgage brokers, banks, appraisers, housing inspectors and real estate agents in the mix, a combination of just a couple of these parties working together to “fudge and flip” a transaction can result in hundreds of thousands of dollars lost to myriad innocent parties—and once the fraud is discovered, the finger-pointing begins. In one scam alone, fake documents were used to purchase more than 300 homes valued at $51 million—and that isn’t even taking into account the exorbitant fees the forgers charged for the service of producing those documents. You can prevent this from happening on your watch by being informed, understanding your options, and knowing what red flags to look for from the start in order to proactively protect yourself and your clients.

In this presentation, Robert Siciliano will cover:

The costs and impact of fraud, including who is doing it and how
Different types of fraud
Fraud hotspots and red flags
Knowing your rights, including what you are signing and how to protect your business and your clients