Adam K. Levin, the former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, is the co-founder of Credit.com and the founder of CyberScout.
[1] He is the author of the Amazon Best Seller Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves,[2] and is host of the Webby-nominated podcast What the Hack with Adam Levin.
[5] Other accomplishments as Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs include the promotion of statewide financial literacy programs, two major tire recalls, and a national effort to secure the right for professionals to advertise- an occurrence which created favorable conditions for price competition and established greater consumer protections in the health spa industry.
He won the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District.
[11] Levin's speaking topics include a broad range of security and personal finance topics, the benefits and perils of credit, the continuing struggle between convenience and security online; how professionals and businesses can better protect consumer and employee data, as well as trade secrets and intellectual property, privacy issues and the "Internet of Things", protecting data in a world of connected devices, the growing epidemic of tax fraud and medical ID theft and how "breaches have become the third certainty in life", along with the inevitability of identity theft and expert tips on how consumers can minimize their risk of exposure, monitor their credit and identity, and identify effective damage control programs.