Insight on Program Best Practices

The SEC’s perspectives on security program development and enhancement.

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Insight on Program Best Practices

New Developments in Proactive Loss and Anomaly Detection

Companies lose money in a diversity of ways, but whether the loss is via theft, fraud, poor management, or error, the longer it takes to detect it, the more costly it will be. This summary of a Security State of the Industry meeting discusses tools and techniques of proactive loss detection.
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How Proactive Investigations Can Boost the Bottom Line

Organizations can incur criminal loss through many avenues – organized crime, theft and diversion, intellectual property loss, myriad types of internal and external fraud involving insurance, employee benefits, misappropriation, kickbacks, and more. Each of these loss avenues may be managed by a different function in the company, which is why...
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Security Barometer: Are Investigations Evolving?

These research results delve into how security practitioners are adjusting to leverage newer technologies and techniques to fight fraud loss.
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Early Fraud Detection: The Secret to Security ROI?

Internal or occupational fraud prevention or recovery could be the ROI Holy Grail security leaders have been wishing for.
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The Business Response to Misconduct Allegations

Investigations is one of the oldest services Security provides. Many security leaders would confidently say their function can manage investigations well in any situation. But COVID-19 has changed that. Now we all must reimagine how to investigate theft, information loss, conflict of interest, fraud, and sabotage in a primarily remote...
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The Case of the Reluctant Complainant

How does the non-security professional handle the employee who reports a misconduct yet is very insistent that you promise not to act upon the information?
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How to Plan an Investigation

At many companies, small security staffs mean other departments— commonly human resources or legal—necessarily help conduct investigations. This is an abridged excerpt on the planning phase of an investigation.
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