Sean M. Bailey is the co-creator of the Savvy Cybersecurity training program, an interactive workshop to teach people to boost their online security. He is the co-author, along with Devin Kropp, of Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft.

Bailey is the founding editor in chief of Horsesmouth (www.horsesmouth.com), a Manhattan-based company that creates educational programs on retirement planning, Social Security, Medicare, college planning, and cybersecurity for industry professionals from top firms including Ameriprise, LPL, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Northwestern, Raymond James, and UBS. 

He was an early promoter of the Internet in the 1990s and led a national conference series teaching nonprofits about technology, building websites, and raising money online.

Bailey pioneered computer-assisted reporting in the late 1980s, along with his colleagues at the News & Observer of Raleigh, using public-record data to probe government programs. He was honored by the North Carolina Press Association for his investigative reporting, covering local politics and white-collar crime. 

Bailey’s interest in fraud started as a college journalist at Appalachian State University when his reporting about a vote-buying scheme in Western North Carolina upset local authorities and triggered a grand jury investigation. Bailey was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize. He lives with his wife and daughter in Maplewood, New Jersey.