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This 14 page paper considers how a security manager may protect a company from suffering fraud. The paper outlines different types of fraud and considers both external frauds, such as credit card fraud, as well as internal fraud, as recently suffered by VISA. The paper looks at the different threats and the tools or procedures that can be used to minimize exposure to those threats and to detect fraud when it occurs. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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14 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEfraud1.rtf
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business the threat increases as well as the potential for increased levels of business. To prevent fraud there are several options that
a security manger may embrace. These operate at different levels with different targets. At one end of the scale there is the prevention of fraud, with the reduction of opportunity
and exposure, at the other end of the scale are the tools to detect fraud. There are also divergent targets such as
internal and external fraud. The seriousness of fraud may be seen with many examples, one of the most famous is the failing of bearings Bank as a result of the
fraud of one man. It is worth noting that this fraud was internal and not even undertaken with the aim of personal gain, but to cover up former mistakes. If
this can occur without any desire to harm a company, to benefit and without the awareness of management then the potential is serous. The complexity for fraud necessities the
use of a range of tools as well as both simple and complex security arrangements. While prevention is required there also needs to be some form of detection, as the
most determined fraudster will find a way into the systems, especially if there is the ability to perpetrate the fraud remotely through computer systems.
If the task is to consider how an organisation can be protected against fraud the first stage is to consider what we mean by fraud. Often fraud will
be defined as being the attempt to obtain goods or service by way of deceit in an illegal or unfair manner. This can be as simple as credit card fraud
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