4 Resources to Help You Prepare for the GDPR

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4 Resources to Help You Prepare for the GDPR

According to the regulation’s detailed website full of helpful tips and background information, the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy. But, as i-Sight’s Dawn Lomer recently pointed out, fewer than half of the companies recently surveyed were prepared for the regulation that comes into effect May 25.

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'Just Because It’s Happening Doesn’t Make it Right'

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'Just Because It’s Happening Doesn’t Make it Right'

Clare Rewcastle Brown just couldn’t ignore the corruption. “I could see it was a massive and underreported scandal of vast proportions,” Brown says in the cover article of the most recent Fraud Magazine, written by Sarah Hofmann, CFE. “I asked why no one was covering it, and for some time I hoped someone else would. Then I realized all the local people who knew about it felt disempowered.”

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Leveraging Data Science to Identify Fraudulent Scientific Studies

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Leveraging Data Science to Identify Fraudulent Scientific Studies

A recent article in The Atlantic discussed how a scientific researcher is leveraging new software to address the issue of fraud in scientific studies. Though typically I focus more on the application of analytics for occupational fraud, this article showcases how unstructured data (data that doesn’t fit nicely into a row/column or tabular format) can be used to identify red flags of fraud. 

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ACFE Publishes 10th Edition of the Report to the Nations

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ACFE Publishes 10th Edition of the Report to the Nations

With the publication of the 2018 Report to the Nations, I am struck by how this study, like the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners itself, is in many ways a tribute to the vision and dedication of our founder and chairman, Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA. When Dr. Wells created the ACFE, he did so because he recognized there was a fundamental flaw in how organizations were attempting to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud.

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