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CPE Credit: 31

Course Level: Basic

Prepare to pass the CFE Exam by attending the CFE Exam Review Course. This instructor-led course will help you master the concepts tested on the CFE Exam — Financial Transactions and Fraud Schemes, Law, Investigation, and Fraud Prevention and Deterrence.

This course, in combination with the CFE Exam Prep Course software, will provide you with an unbeatable combination for passing the exam.

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How did Home Depot wind up sharing customer information with Meta? How did a Cincinnati hospital wind up sending patient information to Meta and other third parties? Why did a Mall use facial recognition software to target shoppers inside the building?

There’s no two ways about it. Cybersecurity is on everyone’s mind; however, not everyone knows the steps involved in preventing or managing a breach. Data breaches have dominated the news cycle long enough for individuals, small and large businesses, front-line employees, and risk managers alike to know how serious cybersecurity risk can be. But what happens when the data wasn’t stolen but willingly shared?

Privacy Impact Audits are essential for any sustainable privacy compliance framework to ensure that organizations are aware, from the outset, of the possible consequences of their data leaking to outside sources. The role of internal audit is especially important regarding this topic and how to mitigate risk of data exposure.

 You will learn:

• The three lines of defence in managing risk
• The importance of executive suite/board level involvement and commitment
• How to promote a culture of skepticism and risk management
•  How to make employee training more than a “tick the box” exercise
• About the threat from a compromised employee and from third-party vendors and how to mitigate these risks
• The protocols and policies needed to prevent cyber breaches and to manage the breach when it occurs
• How to conduct a Privacy Impact Audit
• The risks of free promotional materials and how to assess them.
•   The importance of having an action plan in place to manage a breach when it does happen
  
  

Our Speaker

Nejolla Korris is an international expert in the field of Linguistic Lie Detection and Cybersecurity - Social Engineering and Social Media Risk. She is the Chief Executive Officer at Interveritas International.

She is skilled in Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN), a technique that can determine whether a subject is truthful or deceptive. Since 2000, Korris has analyzed documents for fraud, international security, arson, sexual assault, homicide, and missing persons' cases, causing some of her clients to dub her the "Human Lie Detector."

Nejolla was one of five sanctioned trainers worldwide in the SCAN methodology. She has worked with Singapore police, FBI & cold case units of Scotland Yard and Irish Garda as well as several other law enforcement agencies. She introduced the methodology to the business community helping train professionals in detecting deception and honing interview skills.

OUR SPEAKERS

Dr. Karina Vold is an assistant professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. At the university, she is also a research lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, an AI2050 Early Career Fellow with the Schmidt Sciences Foundation and a faculty associate at the Centre for Ethics. Vold is also an associate fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.  Karina specializes in the philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of artificial intelligence. Her recent research has focused on human autonomy, cognitive enhancement, extended cognition and the risks and ethics of A

Daniel Tsai, JD, LLM in Technology Law (Ottawa), MBA (Cornell University), MBA (Queen's University), PhD (ABD) (Osgoode Hall Law School) is a lawyer, business executive, academic, and consultant with extensive knowledge of business and law. Daniel was the General Counsel of a publicly traded multinational technology company and as an executive in retail successfully led initiatives in innovation, supply chain, sales, marketing, and strategy resulting in significant growth. Daniel has written on business, policy, and legal issues for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Postmedia, The Hill Times, The Advocate, the Lawyer's Weekly, and several legal texts. As a senior policy advisor in the Canadian government recruited under the elite Recruiting Policy Leaders (RPL) Program, Daniel wrote new Canadian laws and advised senior government officials on policy changes. Daniel's LLM and PhD research was in taxation and technology law.

Mandy Yousif is the Chief Operating Officer of Specialty Risk & Intelligence Services Inc. (SRIS). Over her career to date, Mandy has partnered with the most recognized and reputable firms in North America. She has executed multiple domestic and international due diligence investigations focused on corporate C-level officers and on some of the largest corporate entities worldwide. Mandy has played an instrumental role in several M&A transactions for multi-billion-dollar hedge funds and institutional investment firms. Mandy has worked on notable high-profile criminal matters, high-stakes litigation, and complex intellectual property and trademark actions in collaboration with Canada’s top litigators and internationally recognized attorneys. Mandy’s work product has been admitted in trials and hearings and she has also testified in this respect. Mandy holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours with Distinction) in Criminology and Sociology from the University of Western Ontario and a Diploma with High Honours in Public & Private Investigation from Sheridan College. Mandy’s disciplinary focus has been on white-collar crimes. Mandy is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and is a Director as well as the Secretary to the Board of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) – Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Chapter. She has been a Licensed Private Investigator since 2012, and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Honours Bachelor of Crime & Intelligence Analysis Program (PAC) at Seneca College.

Darren Mar is the director of client solutions for NPC DataGuard and has more than 10 years of experience specializing in helping financial professionals and small & medium-sized businesses (SMBs) secure their company and client data through a consultative approach focused on education. Darren began his technology career by assisting SMBs in maximizing their enterprise software investments. In his current role, his hands-on, client-centered approach helps individuals achieve corporate-level data security with minimal investment. Darren is an experienced public speaker, regularly appearing on the main stage at conferences such as the Canadian Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies (CAILBA) and the Canadian Advisor Tech Expo (CATE). Over the past five years, he has hosted more than 100 webinars on topics related to cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, modern technology solutions and more.

Simon Marchand is an independent fraud consultant, expert in external fraud risk, identity and biometrics. A Certified Fraud Examiner, and Chartered Administrator, Marchand has extensive expertise in fraud prevention, detection, security and authentication in the banking and telecom industries as well as the technology sector with more than 14 years of experience in the field. He held senior leadership positions at Vancouver-based GeoComply as VP of Product Management - Risk, then VP of Fraud & Risk Strategy, after a few years as Nuance’s (now Microsoft) Chief Fraud Prevention Officer and Director of Product Management for the Security & Biometrics division. Prior to these strategic roles in the technology industry, he held key fraud management positions at Montreal-based Laurentian Bank, at Bell Canada, and at the Québec Order of Chartered Administrators, where he managed its professional inspection program. As senior fraud expert and independent consultant, he helps design fraud prevention technology that disrupt criminal operations and facilitate fraud investigations for a variety of industries. He collaborates with organizations and associations from all over the world to help better understand current and upcoming fraud risks and design prevention strategies in collaboration with anti-fraud teams from various industries. He regularly shares his expertise in various conferences and with associations around the world and also regularly speaks on fraud risks and the ethical use of fraud prevention technology in the media.

In 2020 the OPP adopted a Framework for a Victim-Centred Approach to ensure a comprehensive, consistent, and structured approach to enhancing programs, policies and processes to better assist and understand the needs of victims/survivors. The inception of the Victim-Centred Approach Team and the Victim Specialist Program ensures victims are aware of, and can access their rights, and that they are supported throughout the criminal justice process. This presentation will provide an overview of the OPP’s Framework for a Victim-Centred Approach and those processes which ensure the OPP are meeting not only their legal obligations as they relate to victims/survivors (inclusive of victims of fraud), but also their moral and ethical obligations by recognizing and respecting an individual’s fundamental human rights.

OUR SPEAKER

Shauna Marshall: Staff Sergeant, Program Manager
Victim-Centred Approach Team
Crime Prevention & Community Support Bureau, Ontario Provincial Police

Shauna has been a member of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) since 1998 and began her career as a front-line general law enforcement officer in Arnprior, Ontario. In 2006, Shauna transitioned from front-line duties to a specialized role and became a certified Forensic Identification Officer servicing the central areas of Eastern Ontario, where she later promoted to Sergeant of the Unit. Working within this specialized field and amongst trauma on a day-to-day basis for over a decade, Shauna became acutely aware of the impact on mental health within the policing community and actively sought out opportunities to support fellow officers through education and awareness, specifically relating to operational stress injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder. In 2019, given her dedication to mental health and having a trauma-informed approach as it relates to policing in general, Shauna joined then Deputy Director Maria McDonald (Victim Support Strategy Lead, Victim-Centred Approach Team, OPP) to support the inception of the OPP's Framework for a Victim-Centred Approach and the creation of the Victim Specialist Program. Shauna is currently the Program Manger for the Victim-Centred Approach Team, which oversees the Victim Specialist Program, a Program which supports front-line investigations within 10 Detachments and the OPP’s Criminal Investigation Branch.

Shauna’s role within the Victim-Centred Approach Team further supports the implementation of a victim-centred approach to mass casualty and extreme events through the engagement of her expertise and the Victim Specialist Program, when investigations require, throughout Ontario. Shauna is a member of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) National Working Group supporting Victims of Terrorism and Mass Casualty. Within this role, Shauna facilitated the development of National Job Specifications for the Victim Specialist/Family Liaison and coinciding Management roles and is also one of the Design and Development Leads for the CACP NWG Victim Specialist Workshop: Piloting a Canadian Victim Response Framework for Terrorism, Mass Violence and Mass Casualty Events.

LOTS of FREE PARKING

This is a great opportunity for you to meet your Chapter Board of Directors and to network with other Certified Fraud Examiners as well as our industry colleagues who are involved in fighting Financial Crimes.
Please come and bring a friend or co-worker!

It is ONLY $20.00

ONLY paid-up Members of the GTA Chapter
(as identified by their name badge)
may speak or vote at the
two separate meetings that are being held on June 19:

(a) Annual General Meeting ("AGM") (6:30 pm)
(b) Special Members Meeting  (6:45 pm)

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Documents will be uploaded on April 28, 2025

Financial transactions are increasingly digital, and payments processing is increasingly automated, which makes our role as fraud examiners more important than ever. Now is the time to delve into the potential of AI platforms such as ChatGPT to raise our workplace productivity, assist our fraud examination workflows and speed up or automate routine tasks, allowing us to keep our focus on strategic fraud prevention and detection activities. By demonstrating AI’s capabilities in natural language processing and generation, we will show how AI-based tools can streamline communications, answer queries and help with interactions within your organization. Additionally, AI can even help us find the formula(s) that will return the desired results in Excel or any other app. We will also look at the darker side of AI to answer questions such as: What can ChatGPT and other tools learn from your data and queries and explicitly or implicitly pass on to the rest of its userbase? Or, if you repeatedly ask AI to identify the purchase of gift cards by employees using P-cards, will the AI tool “learn” that this is a recurring and significant problem in your company?

You Will Learn How To:

• Identify the potential positive impact of AI on productivity, efficiency and fraud detection.
• Include the use of AI in the planning and reporting phases of an investigation.
• Solve hypothetical and real-world problems with the help of AI.
• Appraise the confidentiality-related issues related to sharing data and information with the tool.

OUR SPEAKER

Mark Nigrini, CA(SA)
Professor, West Virginia University

Mark J. Nigrini is an associate professor of accounting at West Virginia University. His research passion for many years has been a phenomenon known as Benford’s Law which is related to the patterns of the digits in tabulated data. The smaller digits (1s, 2s, and 3s) are expected to occur more often in scientific and financial data and Benford’s Law has shown itself to be valuable to fraud examiners in their quest to uncover fraud in corporate data. His current research addresses insider threats, and more specifically the cybersecurity risks posed by former employees. 

Nigrini is the author of Forensic Analytics (Wiley, 2020) which describes analytic tests used to detect fraud, errors, estimates, and biases in financial data, and Benford's Law (Wiley, 2012). In 2014 he published an article in the Journal of Accountancy that was co-authored with Nathan Mueller, a fraudster. That article won the Lawler award for the best article in the Journal of Accountancy in 2014. Included in his array of academic publications is the lead article in the new premier forensic accounting journal, the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research. His recent publications include the lead article in the Nov/Dec 2020 issue of Fraud Magazine. His work has been featured in, amongst others, The Financial Times, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His radio interviews have included the BBC in London, and NPR in the United States. His television interviews have included an interview on a fraud saga for the Evil Twins series for the Investigation Discovery Channel. He is a regular presenter at the ACFE’s Global Conferences and at events overseas such as Brazil’s Interforensics 2023. 
 

THE AGENDA
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm    Examination failures: what are our standards?                             
  1:20 pm - 1:30 pm    10 min break
  1:30 pm - 2:20 pm    Examination failures: what are our standards? (cont'd)                  
  2:20 pm - 2:30 pm    10 min break
  2:30 pm - 3:20 pm    Wrongful convictions, bias in examinations                                  
  3:20 pm - 3:30 pm    10 min break
  3:30 pm - 4:20 pm    Wrongful convictions, bias in examinations (cont'd)
  4:20 pm - 4:30 pm    Questions & Answers, Announcements

Total Instruction (minutes): 200 (4 hours using 50 minute hours)
All times are Eastern (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) time

OUR PRESENTERS

Janet M. McHard, CPA, CFE, MAFF, CFF, CGFM, Founding Partner of The McHard Firm, is an award-winning speaker and long-time faculty member for Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.  The McHard Firm is a firm specializing in forensic accounting, fraud prevention, and accounting reconstruction. Together with her partner and staff, Janet conducts forensic and investigative accounting in matters concerning alleged white-collar crimes, embezzlements, employee theft and as well as disputed accounting issues.  Janet holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico as well as an M.B.A. from the University of New Mexico’s Robert O. Anderson Graduate School of Management.  In 2016 Janet was inducted in the UNM Anderson Schools of Management Hall of Fame.  She holds a CPA in New Mexico, Arizona and California.  She has served on several boards including the Albuquerque Housing Authority and is currently the Treasurer of Keshet Dance Company & Center for the Arts.  She is also a member of the Audit Committee of the San Diego County Bar Association.

Beth A. Mohr the Managing Partner of McHard Accounting Consulting LLC, also known as The McHard Firm.  Beth is a nationally certified law enforcement instructor (IADLEST), and also a State of California POST certified law enforcement instructor.  She is an experienced speaker and facilitator working with groups in government, for profit and non-profit sectors on many topics including investigation techniques and anti-money laundering.  Beth has over twenty-five years of experience investigating financial and white-collar crimes, in addition to death penalty mitigation cases, civil rights cases, other complex criminal and civil investigations.  She has testified as an expert witness in three states on a variety of different types of matters, including police practices, police misconduct, fraud and white-collar crimes, and Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.  Beth is retired from the San Diego Police Department.  She is a private investigator licensed by the States of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California, and holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of New Mexico.