Inside the ‘inside job’

With more than 85,000 members, the ACFE (www.acfe.com) is the world’s largest anti-fraud organisation and is a leading provider of anti-fraud training and education. Esther Martin (esther.martin@informa.com) is Assistant Editor of Fraud Intelligence.

While cybercriminals relentlessly lay siege to businesses’ technology defences from without, a less publicised internal frontline against workplace schemes also demands the attention of counter-fraud professionals. The ACFE’s latest global analysis of occupational fraud cases will help them refine their strategies, reports Esther Martin.