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A perfect storm of human errors — six of them to be exact — caused the biggest nuclear accident to date, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. An IT mistake prompted 425 million Microsoft Azure users to experience 10.5 hours…

Ah, complacency. That quiet sense of security or satisfaction with the status quo that prevents a person from acknowledging the potential dangers or risks around them. We become complacent about internal controls, believing our employees have always been trustworthy…

A catastrophe, by definition, is an event that causes great and often sudden damage or suffering. Catastrophic events, such as those caused by natural disasters, are difficult, if not impossible, to fully predict yet recent events have shown us…

We were proud to join the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) 2019 Fraud Awareness Week as an official supporter. Saturday, November 23, 2019 will conclude a weeklong effort by the ACFE to minimize the impact of fraud by…

As the ACFE’s 2019 Fraud Awareness Week comes to a close, it’s a good time to create your plan for fraud prevention in the year ahead. These seven fraud prevention strategies, drawn from the 2018 Report to the Nations…