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I am hoping that the 2012 Institute of Counter Fraud Studies Conference in June will provide me with some new insights into tackling fraud. There are some great topics on the agenda, including Fraud and Football Clubs, Fraud and Corruption in the Military, as well as fraud and error in government. Shining a light on these areas is an extraordinarily simple, but effective strategy for discouraging fraudsters; the one thing they don’t seek is the limelight! If you decide to come along to the conference then you’ll have the chance to browse all of our fraud and corruption titles and to win a copy of Alan Doig’s brand new book Fraud: The Counter Fraud Practitioner’s Handbook.
Infosecurity 2012 is taking place at Earl’s Court on 24 – 26 April. Gower author, Ian Mann, will be at the event with his company ECSC Ltd on stand E80.
Ian will be presenting at the event in the Business Strategy Theatre at 12pm on Thursday 26th April with the headline of Social Engineering IX – Hacking the Globe – a snappy little title, that sets the theme for an examination of cultural differences that impact on the task of the social engineer. This is the result of his social engineering work across a number of continents.
Do pop in and see Ian on the ECSC stand at any time during the three days - he will be doing regular short presentations each day. ECSC are vendor independent information security specialists offering expert guidance, support and management services.
Ian’s book, Hacking the Human is available from Gower Publishing.
Research by Perpetuity Research suggests that as few as 15% of organizations have a wholly convincing security strategy in place; rather an alarming statistic when you consider the environment within which business is operating, particularly international business. Perpetuity make available a free security strategy toolkit on their website; covering strategic analysis, strategy development and implementation, and strategic review. Martin Gill, Director at Perpetuity Research, is author of the chapter ‘Motives for Fraud’ in ‘Fraud: The Counter Fraud Practitioner’s Handbook’ out next month from Gower.
Richard Minogue (The Anatomy of Fraud and Corruption and, forthcoming, Bad Governance and Good Intent) poses a very interesting conundrum on his blog. He argues that despite paying lip service to governance, companies condone sharp practice and, worse still, some companies even mark down employees who put ethics above short-term gain.
On 15th September, Cary Cooper who is a Gower author and Editor of the Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk series, took part in a one hour live Q&A with the Chartered Management Institute. Please see Cary’s Q&A correspondence here.
The answer, of course, as is explained in Richard Minogue’s blog piece ‘Working with Rationalisations’, is that they can rationalise their behaviour, at least to themselves. Richard offers a model of the different types of rationalisation that fraudsters may pursue and he argues, convincingly, that organizations need to understand this process if they are to get into the mind of the fraudster and, consequently, deter them. An expanded version of this article is available in Fraud Intelligence. Richard Minogue is author of The Anatomy of Fraud and Corruption and the, forthcoming, Bad Governance and Good Intent.
The new UK Bribery Act, which comes into law in April 2011, has potentially very far reaching consequences not only for UK private companies but also for foreign companies operating UK subsidiaries. Tim Parkman of the consultancy Lessons Learned (and author of Countering Terrorist Finance) provides a useful introduction to the new Act and its implications for global compliance programmes.
Imagine your company is working in a high-risk area of the world. You will want to take measures to ensure the resilience of your operations and to protect them from risk associated with terrorism, political instability or state-sponsored corruption. But what are the dangers of going too far? What are the risks of overstepping the line when your risk mitigation makes your company an actor in the politics of the region? There’s a fascinating piece on this the Harmattan Associates website written by Robert McKellar (author of our forthcoming Short Guide to Political Risk).
Ed Wilding (author, Information Risk and Security) is one of the faculty on a couple of events organised by The International Governance and Risk Institute around fraud and computer crime prevention. The events on the 8th and the 16th of August in Port of Spain are a reminder that these business threats are no respecters of boundaries.
