Robert Siciliano

[upbeat music] Welcome to Aligned on AI, the podcast where we have real conversations with business leaders about what's changing in their industries and where AI will actually help.

Today, I'm delighted to be joined by Robert Siciliano, based in Boston, Massachusetts, in the US, who has spent more than 30 years working across personal security, private investigation, identity theft, and cybersecurity, and now leads Safe.me and trains organizations through Protect Now LLC.

Robert's work is particularly timely because AI is making fraud cheaper, faster, and far more convincing.

We've reached the slightly uncomfortable point where a familiar face on a, on a video call or a familiar voice on the phone is no longer especially strong evidence that that person is actually there.

What I particularly like is the answer is not simply implement more technology, but to design better verification, better habits, and better processes around the technology we already use.

So it's a pleasure to have you on as a guest.

So thank you for joining me, Robert Siciliano.

My pleasure, and see me online at protectnowllc.com, and thank you so much for that.

Uh, I'm Dejan Kosutic, the CEO at Advisera and the host of, uh, Secure and Simple, uh, podcast.

Today, uh, my guest is, uh, Robert Siciliano, and he's the co-founder of, uh, Protect Now, a company for security training, uh, and certification.

And he has featured over 500 times, uh, as an expert on the, uh, Today Show, uh, CNN, uh, Fox News, uh, MSNBC, and CNBC.

And he's also the author of Strategic Human Firewall, a framework that, uh, teaches, uh, that protecting, uh, the organization, uh, begins with, uh, protecting the people themselves.

I'm your host, Jeremy Kyle, and we're here to help you create your dream retirement.

Today, we're talking with Robert Siciliano about how scams have changed recently, why retirees are especially attractive targets for scammers, and most importantly, what can you do to protect yourself and your family? Robert, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much.

Happy to be here.

Before that, tell us what's the best way to reach out to you?

So I am on the Google.

Just search Robert Siciliano or, of course, my website is protectnowllc.com. Again, protectnowllc.com.

Yeah, excellent.

Hey everyone, I'm David Fins, and on this episode of the Cyber Insurance Imperative, we have a very special guest.

Robert Siciliano is the co-founder and head trainer of ProtectNow.

For over 30 years, Robert has lived at the intersection of physical and virtual protection as a private investigator and security expert.

His mission is to inform, educate, and empower individuals to override the instinctual default to trust and replace it with what he calls a strategic human firewall robert is also the ceo of safer.me and has served as a flotilla staff officer with the u.s coast guard auxiliary where he has used a security mindset to protect our nation's maritime interests Robert is the architect of the CSI Protection Certification, a program specifically designed to transform employees who are often an organization's greatest security risk.

And that's what it should be.

And once it is that, you're going to see your metrics go a lot higher.

So how do you get in touch with me? on Google, right? Robert Siciliano, S-I-C-I-L-I-A-N-O.

Connect with me on LinkedIn.