'Bring Your Own Device' Issues Require Clear Company Policies

'Bring Your Own Device' Issues Require Clear Company Policies

We live — and work — in an age of mobile technology. Most of us do not think twice about taking our cell phone or tablet with us to the office, and perhaps using it to access documents on the server or other company information. And most employers still don’t think twice about those devices being on the premises, and being used by employees for both personal and business uses.

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Criminal Minds: Sources and Methods Fraudsters Deploy

Criminal Minds: Sources and Methods Fraudsters Deploy

Class participation was a key element in the entertaining session, “Criminal Minds: Sources and Methods Fraudsters Deploy,” by R.A. Wilson, CFE, CPP, CSCP and Tracy K. Webb, CSCP at the 25th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. In their team-taught breakout session, attendees were alert and very much involved as Wilson and Webb looked behind the mind of fraudsters.

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Freeh Lauds ACFE for Professionalism and Reputation

Freeh Lauds ACFE for Professionalism and Reputation

“What’s critical about your organization and reputation,” said former FBI Director Louis Freeh during the Monday Working Lunch, “is the interaction and interconnectivity that you bring between the government and the private anti-fraud community and establishment. That did not exist for many years for the most of the history of the FBI.”

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“The Wolf of Wall Street”: The Other Side of the Story

The Academy Award-nominated film “The Wolf of Wall Street” has garnered nearly as much controversy as it has critical acclaim. The film’s depiction of Stratton Oakmont founder Jordan Belfort’s outrageous lifestyle, fueled by sex, drugs and greed, makes for an entertaining – and wild – ride, but noticeably leaves out a key element in his scheme: the victims. 

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