Live Virtual Training: The Business of Fraud and Social Engineering and Cybercrime

November 10, 2022

8:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST

Registration Ends: 11:59 PM CST Tuesday, November 8, 2022 

Registration & CPE

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 2022 Fall Workshop, The Business of Fraud and Social Engineering and Cybercrime for 4 hours CPE.

As a special thank you to current and new members, prior to registering for this event, sign-up for the 2023 KC Chapter membership by November 6, 2022 and receive a promo code to attend this event for free. (Promo code will be received in a separate email within 3 business days.) Click here for more information

An email with instructions on how to join the live virtual training and to test your machine/browser will be sent within two days prior of the event. 

CPE will be sent out by 12/10/2022

Payment & Cancellation

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 are not accepted at this time. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to [email protected].

If you need to cancel please refer to our cancellation policy: Event Cancellation Policy (kc-acfe.org)

Training Description

The “Business” of Fraud.

What happens when fraud is conducted like a business? Fraud ‘professionals’ are emerging and operating like legitimate businesses, with strategies, revenue goals, market niches, marketing plans, and operational programs.  And they are playing the long game, not just looking for the quick payout.

In the past few years, we have seen fraud cases where the schemes take months or years to implement with no expectation of an immediate payoff, as if there is no pressure, but rather an orchestrated strategy being implemented and played out.

Fraud Fighters have already had to accept that some fraudsters with anti-social disorders do not rationalize their schemes.  Should we re-evaluate how pressure manifests and affects fraud is evolving in light of these fraud businesses? 

This session will examine the evolution of fraud as a long-game, using some real world cases, and discuss what fraud fighters should be incorporating into their fraud protection programs to address this new trend.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand what a “long-game” fraud is using real-world case studies
• Examine how these long-term fraud schemes fit into the fraud triangle
• Identify what can be incorporated into fraud protection programs to address the risk

Social Engineering and Cybercrime

Are your company’s employees inadvertently giving cybercriminals access to company systems?  You might be surprised. Cybercrime is the number one fraud threat in today’s technology reliant world. Organizations pay top dollar for cyber protection and expertise, but cybercrime continues to occur and is increasing not decreasing.  Why?  Cyber experts often focus on the technology while hackers and fraudsters have a wide array of methods they use, not all technology based, and frequently it includes social engineering. Cybercriminals are bypassing security by going straight to employees and getting access to company assets. If organizations do not address their cyber protection programs with this in mind, they are still at risk of a breach regardless how sophisticated their protection is. This session will look at real world-case studies where technology breaches where the direct result of social engineering and what every organization should be doing to prevent t this from happening to them.

Course Objectives

• The most common approaches and techniques used in social engineering
• How every organization’s greatest vulnerabilities are not where they suspect
• Lessons learned from real-world cases
• What your organization should have, or put in place, to protect your organization

About Our Guest Speaker:

Mary Breslin, CIA & CFE

Mary Breslin is the Founder of Verracy and an internationally recognized speaker and training facilitator for Internal Audit, Risk and Fraud.  When she is not speaking publicly or facilitating trainings, Ms. Breslin conducts fraud investigations and provides management consulting for internal audit and fraud.

Ms. Breslin has over 25 years of experience in Internal Audit, Fraud, Accounting and Management, including working for global companies like Costco, Barclay’s Capital, ConocoPhillips, and Boart Longyear.  She has implemented and managed audit programs in more than 50 countries.  Additionally, she has led fraud investigations in numerous countries spanning six continents.

On stage, Ms. Breslin has spoken at the Global ACFE Fraud Conference for the past four years.  She has spoken at conferences in Africa, Europe Asia and the Middle East for both the ACFE and IIA.  Mary has been an IIA All-Star speaker at the IIA annual Conference – speakers considered the “Best of the Best” in the industry.  She has also received the ISACA “Top-Rated Speaker” designation.  Mary speaks and facilitates training regularly for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and ISACA.

Ms. Breslin attended Rutgers University and University of Phoenix.  She has a BS in Accounting and an MBA.  She completed her MBA from the University of Phoenix while living abroad after accepting an Ex-pat assignment and moving to Italy.  She is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Mary lives with her husband and two rescue dogs outside of Austin, Texas.

Tickets

$40.00 Member Ticket

$60.00 Non-Member Pricing