About Amos

I got my education on the wrong side of the fence. In 1993 I was twelve years old with a dial-up modem and a screen name built to look like it belonged to the people in charge, and I learned the lesson that runs through everything I have written since: people do not trust the person, they trust the costume. It was never about money for me. It was love of the game.

Then one Tuesday morning in 2001 I was twenty years old, working the phones for a major financial firm, on a call with a client in the first tower. That was the day the game stopped being a game, and I have spent the years since on the right side of it: a security consultant with two decades across financial services, retail, and telecom, chasing the same tricks I used to pull and teaching regular people how to beat them.

The Home Defense Guides are what that career looks like on paper: short, direct field manuals that take one threat at a time and hand you the counter. The live seminars are the same material with the volume up, phones to slam, and prizes on the line.

I live in New Bedford, Massachusetts. I am a husband and a father, my favorite band is the Ramones, and the WNBA won me back to basketball. Go Sun.