Fraud Seminar

December 2, 2003
8:00-4:30

Safety Harbor Resort and Spa
105 N. Bayshore Drive (Map)
(off Courtney Campbell Causeway)

With the continued interest in fraud and the daily news on fraud perpetrated in corporations today, this continues to be a high demand topic from both practitioners and students.

Speakers will include:

FDLE Special Agent Supervisor Mike Phillips will discuss identity theft.
FBI Agent Russell Hayes is an expert on computer hacking and intrusion.
Doug Burton from ACL will discuss the nature and scope of fraudulent activities and explore some of the limitations of traditional approaches to fraud detection and prevention. Review the PowerPoint Presentation
Tom Richardson of Santee Cooper will talk about "After Enron." Review the PowerPoint Presentation

Mike Phillips, FDLE Mike Phillips is a Special Agent Supervisor currently assigned to the Tallahassee Regional Office of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He has spent fourteen years in law enforcement, his career beginning with the Leon County Sheriff's Office where he worked as an investigator and member of the SWAT team. For most of his nearly six years with the FDLE, he has been assigned to the Financial Crime and Computer Crime squads where he has investigated numerous economic crime cases.

Building on a Criminology degree from FSU, Mike has received training on Financial Crimes and Identity Theft from the FBI, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and, it may come as a surprise, the credit card people at VISA.

Fraud is a dominant form of white collar crime that continues to exact a tremendous toll not only on the organizations that fall prey to it, but also on investors, financial institutions, and the economy in general. Among the challenges in developing effective fraud detection and prevention programs are:

Ever-expanding volumes of data
Growing complexity of operational and financial systems, applications and business processes
Continuous evolution of fraud schemes to bypass existing detection methods

The presentation outlines the nature and scope of fraudulent activities and explores some of the limitations of traditional approaches to fraud detection and prevention. It then focuses on how computerized data analysis techniques can assist in fraud detection through a discussion of typical frauds, symptoms and tests. Participants learn how experts in leading organizations have seen immediate benefit from implementing and using data analysis software. Key in this discussion is the growing demand for continuous monitoring of operational data to support a proactive stance in fighting organizational fraud.

Doug Burton is the Account Executive for Education at ACL Services Ltd. Doug works extensively with senior management in many of North America’s largest and most prestigious organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and North America’s leading universities and colleges. He has over 15 years’ experience in business process automation and has spent much of this time working with financial executives and audit professionals. In this capacity he has been exposed to a wide variety of computing environments and as such has a unique perspective on overcoming modern business challenges through business assurance solutions.

Doug is a popular public speaker, having conducted several sessions at various seminars and conferences, including those by The Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors (AHIA), and the Association of College and University Auditors (ACUA).

Please Note: Even if you or your organization has purchased the "Corporate Advanced Pricing" package, you still need to RSVP with the specific attendees for each meeting. Please RSVP by 4:00 ET Friday November 28, 2003.