Webcast: Ripped From the Headlines - Lessons From Interesting Tech Crimes
400 | Webcast | Intermediate | Scheduled
Description
Remote and hybrid work during the pandemic created new opportunities for cybercriminals and other fraudsters to exploit, and accounting professionals are among the most targeted individuals. This session is a series of case studies that examine actual criminal filings and news accounts and use them to highlight the actions you can take to limit your exposure to similar schemes. Attend this session and learn more about how high-profile control failures occurred so you can be more effective at preventing crimes such as theft, malware, ransomware, phishing and hacking.
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 2.00 | Information Technology |
Designed For
Managers, owners and accounting professionals who want to learn from computer crime incidents best practices that can be used to enhance their organization's security posture
Prerequisites
Fundamental understanding of business-related technology
Highlights
- Common security weaknesses that occur with hardware and software at home and in the office
- Malware, ransomware, data breach and incident response tips
- Internal control failures that result in the theft of assets or unauthorized manipulation of data
Objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
- List at least three major security incidents reported in the headlines in the last year, and explain at least one internal control design or operation flaw that allowed the hack to occur
- Select the correct definitions for security terms such as attack surface, vulnerability, exploit, social engineering, phishing, malware, heuristics, biometrics and multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- List at least three best practices learned by reviewing the control failures cited in the case studies
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $79.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $109.00
- Member
- $79.00
- Non-Member
- $109.00