| Work place fraud is not exactly as uncommon as a | | | | then one way of using fraud prevention techniques in |
| person might think. Granted that this does not mean | | | | these situations would be to have new employees |
| that everyone does it, but it is a statistic that should | | | | work on a need to know basis and only have |
| make every business look at its own procedure and | | | | extremely limited access to files. This may stop them |
| ask themselves 'am I doing enough to prevent | | | | from doing their job as efficiently, but once you think |
| workplace fraud?'. Workplace fraud has held many | | | | they have settled in and are sure that there is nothing |
| different meaning over the years, from such things as | | | | suspicious then you can increase their access state. |
| the classic spy move, to surveillance and bribery, to the | | | | The more common ways in these more computer |
| more modern and technological methods of using | | | | based times is the spyware method, this is where a |
| spyware and malware in order to cause chaos or | | | | person, within a company, will go to a website or |
| steal data. | | | | receive a file that contains a virus or spyware (a |
| However, not every business needs to worry about | | | | simple distinction is that a virus damages your |
| the possibility of information theft as much as others; | | | | computer and spyware just monitors what you look at |
| for example, a simple hair salon will not need to keep | | | | and type). With these computer theft techniques you |
| its trade secrets as tightly wound as a pharmaceutical | | | | need to know what software to have in order to stop |
| company would need to keep its formulas for new | | | | such things from occurring. The easiest method is to |
| drug products secure. But this does not mean that just | | | | simply not have the internet but instead have an |
| because one secret is not worth as much as another | | | | intranet where the computers within the company are |
| that you should do nothing to protect your own | | | | linked together internally and no external access can |
| businesses, unless you have hundreds of thousands at | | | | be made unless a secure link is made with password |
| stake. Therefore, there are a few fundamental | | | | protection. This will stop all external attempts at |
| methods of fraud prevention that you could and really | | | | causing damages to a computer. |
| should implement. | | | | However, fraud prevention does not stop at simple |
| The first of the mentioned fraud methods is the classic | | | | clearance levels and avoidance of the internet, correct |
| spy method: this is where a business will have their | | | | security measurements need to be put in place, such |
| employee go 'undercover' as such into another | | | | as internal cameras that record the monitors of user's |
| business and will then have them report what that | | | | computer screens, as well as a master computer that |
| business does day to day from the inside. This method | | | | also logs the actions made on each individual person's |
| is not really the most used method these days, | | | | computer. The more fraud prevention techniques in |
| however, if you want to prevent such an occasion | | | | place the less likely that fraud will take place. |