Live Virtual Training: Managing & Combating Fraud Risk in 2021

February 16th, 2021

8:00am - 12:00pm CST

Registration Ends: Friday 2/12/2021 

To support our chapter members in training and CPEs, the Greater Kansas City Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners is pleased to announce a live virtual training event for the 2021 Winter Workshop, Managing & Combating Fraud Risk in 2021 for 2 hours CPE and 2 hours Ethics CPE.

For those who join our local chapter as a due's paying member (click here to join!) you will be able to register for our discounted member rates!

*Due to the nature of this event all registrations will need to be paid by credit card prior to the event. Cash and Check payments will be resumed at our next in-person meeting. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to [email protected].

*Note, on Friday 2/12/2021 & Monday 2/15/2021, emails will be sent with instructions on how to join the live virtual training and to test your machine/browser. The live virtual training will be hosted on Microsoft Teams by the presenters. 

*Note, CPE will be sent out within 10 business days after the completion of the training.

*Reminder, we have recently updated our payment portal to improve system reliability. You will no longer be redirected to the PayPal website and instead will complete all transactions within KC-ACFE.org. 

During this presentation, the following topics will be covered:

Building a Strong Culture Begins with Managing Fraud Risk, Peter Grupe

Ethical failure is one of the consistent (and persistent) root causes of fraud.  Given the inverse relationship between culture and fraud, where a poor culture leads to high rates of fraud, it’s important for organizations to consider their culture and ethics program not only as a method of good corporate governance but as a means of fraud risk management.  

Join us for a practical discussion on behaviors that are (virtually) driving fraud risk and how that information can – and should – be considered when conducting ethics and culture audits.

Learning Objectives:

• Distinguish between the concepts of ethics, culture, conduct and compliance.
• Discuss perspectives about hot topics impacting remote and hybrid workplaces.
• Identify the interdependent relationships between ethics, compliance and fraud risk management programs.
  
  

Fraud Risk in the Roaring 20’s, Robert Hennigan

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."  (George Santayana, 1905)

It’s been over 100 years ago that the decade known as the Roaring Twenties first began, and yet, the similarities between fraud schemes then and now are striking. 

Engage with us in a discussion of key history lessons involving unethical business practices and how they can be applied in combating fraud risk in today’s market.

Learning Objectives:

• Contrast historical fraud trends and recent statistics.
• Illustrate key drivers and fraud schemes for risk assessment purposes.
• Examine techniques to evolve your fraud risk assessment.
  
  

Economic Extortion Through the Cyber Lens, Pamela Verick & Dr. D. Kall Loper

Fraud is a dynamic and evolving risk impacted by changes in an organization’s ecosystem, business model, leadership and culture.   For many, operating in an extended remote work environment has created the need to reassess their fraud risk profile. 

This session will focus on how certain fraud schemes have evolved in the pandemic environment, along with the key role that internal auditors play in helping elevate their organization’s fraud hygiene.

Learning Objectives:

• Outline fraud risks arising from a virtual office environment.
• Explain the evolution of extortionware schemes directed at businesses and individuals.
• Discuss steps to help improve cybersecurity.
  
  

Cyber Smash and Grab? Cleaning up after Financial Crimes, Michael Lefebvre

In the cyber version of a smash and grab theft, a criminal gains access to an organization’s resources – money, data, and people – by breaking through systems and network security.  The organization often suffers damage beyond simple financial loss and includes regulatory penalties, shareholder lawsuits, loss of reputation, and uncertainty of remaining data integrity. 

Listen as we share readiness and preparedness techniques and provide illustrations from actual incidents so that you understand attack trends and tactical drivers to enhance cyber incident response activities.

Learning Objectives:

• Breakdown attack trends used by cybercriminals.
• Analyze tactical drivers to enhance cyber incident response activities.
• Explain defined methods of approach to ambiguous, third party reports of compromise.
  
  

About Our Guest Speakers:

Peter Grupe, Director
Protiviti Forensic

Peter is a Director with Protiviti Forensic. He has successfully managed many different engagements in the last couple of years to include financial crime investigations, forensic accounting services, whistleblower investigations, security assessments, FCPA compliance program reviews and fraud risk reviews at financial institutions. He has over thirty years of experience in consulting, law enforcement and corporate finance.

Peter has also held various executive management roles with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He retired after 24 years of service as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the largest White-Collar Crime Branch of the FBI (New York Office). He is credited with successfully managing the Bernard Madoff investigation, the largest insider trading investigation in history, and sensitive investigations of elected and appointed public officials.

Robert Hennigan, Associate Director
Protiviti Forensic

Robert (“Bob”) Hennigan is an Associate Director in Protiviti Forensic where he specializes in the performance of event-driven financial crime, bribery and misconduct investigations. He also has extensive experience in critiquing internal investigative units and in evaluating physical security and crisis response programs. He has almost thirty years of experience in law enforcement, financial services, and internal audit. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Bob held various management roles at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and retired after over 24 years of service.
At retirement, he served as the FBI New York’s Crisis Management Coordinator responsible for the management of FBI specialty teams including security postures for Super Bowl 2014, the New York City Marathon, and the 2015 NBA All-Star Game.

Pamela Verick, Director
Protiviti Forensic

Pamela (“Pam”) Verick is a Director in Protiviti Forensic where she leads Protiviti’s fraud risk management initiatives. As a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP), she transforms her 25 years of forensic consulting experience into right-sized investigation response plans, customized fraud risk assessment methodologies, risk-based anti-corruption audits, meaningful training programs and innovative design thinking sessions to help organizations combat vulnerabilities to fraud and corruption across the globe. Pamela most recently served as a task force member for COSO’s Fraud Risk Management Guide and ECI’s Technology Working Group.  

Dr. D. Kall Loper, Director
National Lead for Incident Response, Protiviti

Dr. Loper lead’s Protiviti’s national Incident Response and Digital Forensic practices. Prior to that, he worked for a Big 4 incident response practice and owned his own forensics firm. He has been a practicing professional and researcher in Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) since 1997. Dr. Loper is a professor of computer science at Southern Methodist University. He was lead instructor, author, and peer review board member for the US Department of Justice's Electronic Crime and Technology Center of Excellence. Dr. Loper has authored books, presentations, and articles on DFIR including co-authoring Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, Second Edition, distributed by the USDoJ and the Department of Homeland Security.

Michael Lefebvre, Associate Director
Protiviti Forensic

Mike Lefebvre is an Associate Director in the Incident Response practice at Protiviti. He formerly served on the IR team in a Big 4 consulting company and assisted in the development of a global threat intelligence platform. Prior to that he led the cyber threat team at a secure cloud provider, and before that he worked in research and development for a global consulting firm. Mike holds three patents related to computer security from this part of his career. Mike is currently working toward his PhD in Computer Science at Southern Methodist University as a Doctoral Fellow in the AT&T Center for Virtualization.

We hope to see you there!

Tickets

$25.00 Member

$40.00 Guest