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Jim Stickley: Preventing Fraud Through Education

Meet CU Times' Data Breach Defense Virtual Conference keynote speaker and the CEO of Stickley on Security.

By Natasha Chilingerian | Updated on September 25, 2015
Security at financial institutions – both physical premise security and data security – is much weaker than one might think. That’s what Jim Stickley has discovered in his more than 20 years of hacking into systems and robbing facilities for the purpose of testing the strength of organizations’ defenses.

The founder and CEO of the San Diego-based identity theft and fraud education firm Stickley on Security, and the keynote speaker for CU Times’ upcoming Data Breach Defense Virtual Conference, Stickley was a self-professed “nerdy kid” who spent his youth working on computers and hacking into them a bit for fun (he stressed that nothing malicious ever occurred, however).

When he got older, he wrote software and worked as an auditor for various companies, and in the process, he began to notice numerous system flaws and vulnerabilities that needed addressing. Those discoveries led him to a career in security testing, which proved to be eye-opening both for him and the organizations he tested.

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Natasha Chilingerian

Natasha Chilingerian

Natasha Chilingerian has worked in the credit union space for over a decade. She joined CU Times as managing editor in 2015 and was promoted to executive editor in 2019. Before that, she served as a communications specialist for Xceed Financial Credit Union (now Kinecta Federal Credit Union) in Los Angeles from 2013-2015, and as a CU Times freelancer from 2011-2013. She has been a professional writer and editor for more than 17 years, specializing in news and lifestyle journalism as well as marketing copywriting for companies in the finance and technology space.

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