Wednesday, 19th November 2008

Fraud Prevention, Detection and Investigation Workshop
Mr. Larry Lam, Managing Director, McGuire Asia Pte Ltd

• Assess the control environment
• Case studies on real frauds that happened
• Effective fraud risk management and prevention framework
• Detect frauds through people and hands-on data analysis
• Fraud investigation process
• Re-construct the modus operandi
• Prove and disprove of hypothesis
• Interview and interrogation techniques (with role playing)
• Gathering and preservation of evidence
• Loss recovery
• Writing the fraud investigation report
• Dealing with the law enforcement authorities effectively

**This is a highly interactive and hands-on workshop

Hands-on System Penetration Testing Workshop
Mr. Richard J. Stagg, Director and Founder of Handshake Networking Ltd

• A thorough step-by-step approach to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your system environment
• The common systems weaknesses to be strengthened
• The latest hackers’ exploits
• Hands-on ethical hacking
• Communicate technical vulnerabilities to senior executives for corrective actions

Keynote Speech
Fraud: Old Wine in New Skins
Mr. Hri Kumar, Partner, Drew & Napier

• Frauds are nothing new, but they keep coming in different fashions
• The recent issues in financial crime in Singapore and in the region
• The importance of investigators’ discernment
• How lawyers leverage on the power of litigation to win a case
• Personal experience in tackling some of the toughest fraud cases

Screen Your Prospective Employees before Damage is Done
Mr. Wayne Tollemarche, Executive Vice President ( Asia Pacific Region),
First Advantage Corporation

• Discussion on the various aspects of pre-employment screening a
  company should perform (criminal records, credit records, previous
  job history and educational and professional credentials)
• Recent statistics on frauds perpetrated by employees
• Amount of losses to employers
• Success stories of effective pre-employment screening
• Ways to unleash the power of human resources that lies in your
  organisation for profitable use

• Discussion on the current and future implications (looking at technology
  trends) of removable media
• Ways to prevent these devices from being used as vectors for
  malicious software and information leaks
• Best practices in policies, procedures and training to minimize the
  likelihood and impact of such event.

CSI: Computer Forensic
Mr. Ramesh Moosa, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers

• How the field of Computer Forensics has evolved significantly over the
  past few years
• Insight into the broad spectrum of electronic data sources available
• How forensic technology can be applied to different investigation needs
• Case study illustrations on cases from Asia Pacific, Central Asia and US
• Challenges commonly faced in performing forensic technology work and
  trends in the industry

What System Tools More Companies are Using to Keep an Eye
on the Insiders!
Mr. Shahar Mor, CTO, Sparktech Ltd

• Actual companies’ experience in providing mechanism for internal
  fraud prevention and detection
• Existing approaches, whether online or “batch” oriented as well as the
  challenges fraud investigators and risk managers are facing today
• Implementation efforts and “time-to-value” challenges and solutions
• Employee behaviour patterns
• Means to automatically identify a contemplated fraud event before it
  actually happen without compromising on number of false-positive
  fraud alerts
• Discussion on existing products and products groups with a deeper
  look at the user behaviour monitoring technology

Best Practice Fraud Risk Management
Mr. Peter Richard Hazlewood, Managing Director Compliance Services
& Security Group Legal, Compliance, Secretariat and Security, DBS Bank

• Developing a robust fraud risk management framework
• Case studies and lessons learned
• Interactive question and answer session

• Background and Elements of Insider Trading
• Penalties including Civil Penalty
• Defences and Exceptions
• Case Review

Leveraging On Cheque Security Features to Detect and Prevent Fraud
Mr. Chris Yoon, Managing Director, Secura Printing Pte Ltd

• The inadequacy of traditional security features applied to cheques
• Revisit and redesign the image compatible cheque in line with today’s
  technology of cheque clearing.
• Traditional and newer methods of cheque fraud prevention
• Typical fraud scenarios in the Cheque Truncation era

Frauds and Forgeries involving Signatures – The Current Trend
Ms. Lee Gek Kwee, Former Head of Document and Signature Examination,
Health Sciences Authority (HSA)

• Illustrations of the different types of forged and tampered documents
  by casual fraudsters encountered in the 1980s and 1990s
• Comparisons and elaborations against the increasing number of current
  frauds and forgeries created with high-tech equipment
• Case study illustrations to highlight the indications and detection of such
  frauds and forgeries

Credit Frauds in Financial Institutions: More to Come with New Twists
Mr. Ee Kow Keang, Managing Consultant, SBF Training & Consultancy Sdn Bhd

• Largest fraud case in Singapore history: Credit fraud
• Simple modus operandi, huge losses
• Discussion on a broad spectrum of modus operandi and how we can detect, prevent or minimise them
• Recent trends and statistics on credit frauds in Asia

Casino Gaming and White Collar Crime
Mr. Paul Bromberg, Chief Operating Officer, Spectrum OSO Asia Limited

• Discussion on the expansion of gaming throughout Asia
• Discussion on the dangers facing casinos licensees and governments relating to crimes unique to casinos
• Proactive measures to combat casino crimes
• Proactive measures to address money laundering and related financial crimes