Fraud and Forensic Auditing

About the Course

Fraud is a phenomenon encompassing Cresseys’ fraud triangle - opportunity, rationalisation and pressure - which includes many human psychological components. Join us in this journey to explore the many reasons people commit Fraud, how likely it is to be present in your Business, what damage it can do, where to look for it and how you can limit the Risk of it infiltrating your organisation.

This Fraud and Forensic Auditing training course is designed for those who wish to learn about the most common white-collar crime in business – fraud and to help look for the clues that Fraud is alive and well in your organisation or business.

It is filled with interesting facts and case studies highlighting the challenges the world still faces in this arena. Likewise, it will open the eyes to the consequences of not protecting both businesses and personnel, as the regulations and recommendations worldwide become a Law. The Regulatory bodies increase their interest in this never-ending epidemic of financial crime, chasing wrongdoers across the Globe and joining forces to try and eradicate it from our business world.

Core Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:

• Know Fraud, and its components
• Recognise the weakness in Smartphones
• Security weaknesses in Computer systems
• Understand the digital underground
• See how crime hacks your systems
• Acquire techniques to help identify and protect

Training Approach

The delegates attending this training course will receive thorough training on the subjects utilising various proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques. The highly interactive and participative training course methodology includes exercises and role-plays to simulate audit scenarios and situations.

The Attendees

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals, including managers at all levels and the people they manage and guide.

• Newly Appointed Fraud Investigators
• People using technology for business
• Managers need an understanding of digital types of fraud and how to look for it
• Members of fraud teams who need to learn more about targeting digital types of fraud
• Anybody requiring a broader understanding of how Organised crime will attack their business

Daily Discussion

DAY ONE: FRAUD - WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT DEVELOPS

• What is Fraud?
• Who commits Fraud?
• Why do they commit Fraud?
• The Fraud Triangle
• Fraud in the Digital World

DAY TWO: TECHNOLOGY HOW IT IS SO ACCESSIBLE

• Smartphones
• The internet and its Weaknesses
• Emails and the Cloud
• Computers and Laptops
• Protecting yourself and your business

DAY THREE: THE DIGITAL UNDERGROUND

• Organised-crime
• Silk Road – Dread Pirate Roberts
• The Onion Router (TOR)
• Bitcoin- Legal or just Money Laundering?
• What is to be found there?

DAY FOUR: HACKING

• All things are Hackable
• Hacking Biometrics!
• Everything Connected – Insecurely
• Loss of Privacy
• Hacking your Home and Business

DAY FIVE: SECURITY

• The Way Forward – Users
• Passwords
• Encryption
• The Human Factor
• Practising Safe Cyber Use
• Automating Defense