Description

This session features the latest behavioral science, interactive audience experiments, and compelling real-life stories to disrupt everything you thought you knew about fraud. It will spur you to challenge “sacred cows” of the industry and help you develop better thinking approaches to detect, deter, or investigate fraud, waste and abuse. Learn why many of our basic assumptions about fraud are flawed, why some widely accepted investigative practices are more harmful than helpful, and how auditors and investigators sometimes unwittingly assist fraud schemes.

Objective

Attendees will challenge superficial assumptions regarding fraud and deception and gain a deeper understanding of effective cognitive tools to screen evidence, assess cultural influences, critically review investigative tools, and recognize the relevance of criteria

Highlights

* How we unwittingly assist in the production of misleading information * The psychology of deception and self-deception * Effective evidence screening * Why we overlook obvious red flags * How our intuition and assumptions can lead us astray * Improving judgment and skepticism related to various threats

Who Should Attend

All organizational members will benefit from this session but particularly analysts, auditors, governance, and security and compliance professionals, and those working in the IT, HR, legal, and medical professions as well as executives, policymakers, and other decision-makers interested in a deeper understanding of fraud and related threats

Required Knowledge

None

Advanced Prep

None