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Countering Cyber Attacks
New cybersecurity threats and breaches emerge each year. Even with unprecedented vulnerabilities such as Spectre...
Read More PHISHING, THE GREATEST FORM OF CYBER ATTACK
If you access the Internet or use WhatsApp, Email, Skype and any social media app,...
Read More Why a career in cybersecurity? Part 2 lots of opportunities await
Diploma in Cyber Security and Forensics pioneer class at Institute of Forensics & ICT Security...
Read More Why a career in cybersecurity? Part 1
Diploma in Cyber Security and Forensics pioneer class at Institute of Forensics & ICT Security...
Read More External Audit of information and communication technology systems of Supervised Financial Institutions (SFIs)
On July 10, 2019, Bank of Uganda issued Instruction Circular ‘EDS.306.2 as a follow-up to...
Read More We were lied to: we were trained not educated
Our teachers lied to us. Our parents lied to us. Our policymakers lied to us....
Read More Part 3: 10 reasons for a career in cybersecurity
8th: Career in cybersecurity offers fat pay cheques and high mobility Of what use is...
Read More 10 reasons for a career in cybersecurity and forensics – Part 2
9th: Endless opportunities I got my first job at a time I was pursuing an...
Read More 10 reasons for a career in cyber security and forensics?
10th reason: Cyber security and forensics offers skills in high demand for your personal success...
Read More A word to Users
Are you aware of what’s trending in the technology of mobiles today and the security...
Read More Securing your devices
Man is not an island, and as such we seek to interact more and more...
Read More Active Network Forensics Solution
The main challenge faced during computer related investigations is the lack of sufficient evidence to...
Read More Is Employee Cyber Security Awareness Inevitable?
Gone are the times when our only security concern was making sure that our doors...
Read More How secure is your bank?
As an executive committee member, CEO or board member of a financial institution, you know...
Read More Beyond patient safety and medical liability.
Risk management in healthcare comprises the clinical and administrative systems, processes, and reports employed to...
Read More Are you a WannaCry accomplice?
A simple network scanning following a client request; exposed several computers on the network vulnerable...
Read More The role of Risk Champions in effective Risk Management
At the heart of any effective risk process are two common qualities of strong team...
Read More Cybersecurity BCP/DR Planning
The Institute of Forensics and ICT Security (IFIS) has been providing training to organizations in...
Read More Role of the board in Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery (BCM/ DR)
No company should get ready. It should stay ready. That way, there are no surprises....
Read More The state of cybersecurity in Uganda
A discussion with Mustapha B. Mugisa, of www.mustaphamugisa.com. How safe are businesses/individuals online? Starting with...
Read More The deadly insiders
The enemy within is deadlier than the one without. As a business leader or entrepreneur,...
Read More Everyone is a potential fraudster. Here is why
For the last ten years, since Institute of Forensics and ICT Security (www.forensicsinstitute.org) started fraud...
Read More Lawyers’ vs Internal Auditors’: why lawyers are miles ahead in value addition? Part 2
Although Internal Auditors talk about value delivery, the value they deliver is not easily visible...
Read More Lawyers’ vs Internal Auditors’: Why CEOs and other top executives value lawyers more than the auditors? Part 1
Have you ever wondered why most CEOs will make the first call to their lawyers...
Read More Banking sector: Reconsider your Business Continuity Strategy
Kenya recently suffered a terrible terrorist attack at the DusitD2 complex on Riverside Drive. This...
Read More Data Breaches: Are you a Victim?
Data Breaches: Are you a victim? In a world that is using the internet for...
Read More Understanding your target audience and target market
Anyone owning a business has to know who is in their customer circle, but just...
Read More ATM Fraud and how to protecting your money against it
Protecting your money in the bank during this holiday season ATM Fraud and how bank...
Read More Writing an Expert Witness Report
A typical report will begin with a factual statement in which the parties are identified....
Read More How to conduct Effective Internal Investigations
… How to conduct Effective Internal InvestigationsRead More »
Read More Cyber Security & Risk Managemrnt
#BeyondCyberSecurity Are you ready for the new era? Do you use a mobile device or...
Read More CYBER SECURITY TRAINING FOR BANKS
The banking industry has increased the usage of digital channels such as internet banking, digital...
Read More Combating Cyber Security Threats
New cybersecurity threats and breaches emerge each year. Even with unprecedented vulnerabilities such as Spectre...
Read More The role of HR Function in Fraud Prevention and Detection
Although there is no one definition for fraud, the Collins English dictionary defines it as...
Read More HOW HACKERS CAN HIJACK YOUR CELLPHONE ACCOUNTS
Fraudsters have figured out how to break in to online accounts protected by two-factor authentication...
Read More Fraud Risk Management: Awareness, prevention, detection and investigation
Awareness Bearing in mind that awareness of fraud risks can provide a business with protection,...
Read More The role of Risk Champions in effective Risk Management
At the heart of any effective risk process are two common qualities of strong team...
Read More Why Human Error is Your Biggest Cyber Security Vulnerability
It happens every single day—people open emails from unknown senders, click on mysterious links out...
Read More Charity fraud
Charity fraud, a type of fraud that occurs when charitable organizations that solicit funds from...
Read More Money Transfer Fraud Scams
Kenneth’s friend made decent money working as a mystery shopper. When Kenneth was contacted for...
Read More What is Computer Forensics?
Computer forensics is the application of investigation and analysis techniques to gather and preserve evidence...
Read More How your Company can Recognize and Combat Cyber Crime
This is one of the most talked about topics in the media and in boardrooms...
Read More Fraud in Mobile Financial Services
The rapid growth of mobile financial services (MFS) has facilitated access to cheap and reliable...
Read More Risks in the Insurance Sector
Managing compliance risk is crucial in the challenging environment of the insurance industry. However, because...
Read More Cybercrime in Uganda
When it comes to Ugandans, there is a general feeling that Internet crime is an...
Read More What is a Financial Risk?
Financial risk is the possibility that shareholders or other financial stakeholders will lose money when...
Read More Evidence in Law
Evidence, in law, refers to any of the material items or assertions of fact that...
Read More Cloud Penetration Testing
Cloud is the preferred solution for data storage, infrastructure and services on demand today. Penetration testers and...
Read More How To Manage Risk
Risk is an uncertain event that occurs and can have a positive or negative impact...
Read More How to manage the risk of procurement fraud
Ensure the risk of procurement fraud is acknowledged on your company risk register, and there...
Read More What is Data Security
Data security refers to protective digital privacy measures that are applied to prevent unauthorized access...
Read More WHAT IS FRAUD?
According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, fraud is defined as any intentional or...
Read More Why is Computer Forensics Important to your Organization?
In today’s fast paced world, organizations have to rely more and more heavily on technology...
Read More 5 Risk Management Steps.
As a project manager or team member, you manage risk on a daily basis; it’s...
Read More What is Enterprise Risk Management?
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the activities...
Read More How your partner or foes hack into your phone
It is a Monday morning. The alarm goes off. You raise your head and reach...
Read More Beware of ATM skimming
This type of fraud occurs when an ATM is compromised by a skimming device, a...
Read More Types of Fraud in Business
Small businesses with less than 100 employees experience a median loss of $154,000 due to...
Read More What is Cyberbullying?
Cyber-bullying is the use of cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail, chat rooms or social networking sites...
Read More Conducting Internal Investigations
Conducting an internal investigation can be a difficult task. An investigation into employee wrongdoing can...
Read More The best approach to stopping fraud and corruption at your workplace
The key deterrent of fraud and corruption is awareness and prevention. Some of the processes...
Read More Protecting your Business from Cyber extortion
In the shadowy world of security threats and bad actors, cyber extortion is a growing...
Read More Beware of Charity Fraud
Charity fraud is the act of using deception to get money from people who believe...
Read More Is your mobile banking security safe?
Managing your money has never been so easy. With the rise of mobile banking, paying...
Read More Conducting Forensic Accounting
A basic use of forensic accounting skills can enable an organization to take the proper...
Read More Insider threat and how to guard against it
Cyber crime has become a fact of life for businesses of all sizes. As the...
Read More Types of privileged accounts you need to know
Privileged accounts exist in many forms across an enterprise environment, and they pose significant security...
Read More When to Use Vulnerability Assessments, Pentesting, Red Teams, and Bug Bounties
There’s a lot of conversation taking place around the merits of penetration testing vs. bug...
Read More Are you a victim of asset misappropriation fraud?
Asset misappropriation fraud occurs when people who are entrusted to manage the assets of an...
Read More Tasks and Responsibilities of a Fraud Investigator
Document all investigations Prepare written reports of investigation results Prepare evidence for presentation in court...
Read More How to combat procurement fraud
Procurement fraud can wipe out much of a company’s profits and damage a nation’s ability...
Read More How to use background checks to protect company assets
Your corporate success relies on the people you bring on board. It is important to...
Read More What does Software Security mean?
Software security is an idea implemented to protect software against malicious attack and other hacker...
Read More How to protect your computer from future cyber attacks
In light of the current cyber-attacks which have affected more than 200,000 people in over...
Read More Supermarket theft and fraud
When we discuss theft and fraud in the retail sector we quite often overlook the...
Read More The Purpose of Risk Management in Healthcare
Risks to patients, staff, and organizations are prevalent in healthcare. Thus, it is necessary for...
Read More Confidentiality at workplace
With today’s increasingly litigious and highly competitive workplace, confidentiality is important for a host of...
Read More Who is an expert witness?
Briefly, the expert witness is anyone with specialist knowledge not commonly held, or likely to...
Read More Guarding against Phishing
The practice of sending out mass emails that are fraudulent in nature is referred to...
Read More How safe are you from email hijacking?
Once you possess an iPad, Debit/Visa card and use mobile banking, you are engaged in...
Read More Common types of financial fraud
Financial fraud is known as a deceptive white collar crime that can be devastating yet...
Read More Beware of malicious Soft Ware on your Computer.
Malware, short for malicious software, is a term used to refer to a variety of...
Read More Why Simbox Fraud is difficult to deal with.
One of the most predominant frauds today is Interconnect Bypass Fraud or Simbox fraud as...
Read More Conducting Work place Investigations
Conducting workplace investigations is one of the most challenging duties that HR professionals must take...
Read More Bank security reviews
Banking has gone more electronic, it has become more vulnerable. Robbing a bank used to...
Read More Is a plea bargain inevitable?
Being arrested can be a terrifying, stressful, confusing experience. From that point forward, things can...
Read More Investigative Report Writing
When an investigation leads to a criminal or civil court case, the investigation report can...
Read More How safe is Network from Hackers?
Recent hacks on some of the world’s most sophisticated technology companies have showcased another kind...
Read More Why Mobile Forensics?
Mobile device forensics is a branch of digital forensics relating to recovery of digital evidence...
Read More Top Risks for Banks
Enterprise risk management has become a widely talked-about topic across the industry by both bankers...
Read More Procurement fraud and how to deal with it
The most cost-effective way to deal with fraud is to prevent it. A dishonest employee...
Read More Official Bribery
The act of giving money, goods or other forms of recompense to a recipient in...
Read More Managing Fraud in a Business.
All organizations are subject to fraud risks. Large frauds have led to the downfall of...
Read More Combating Fraud in your Business.
Employee fraud is a significant problem faced by organizations of all types, sizes, locations and...
Read More Transform your Business with Mobile Security
Mobile security is the protection of smartphones, tablets, laptops and other portable computing devices, and...
Read More Church Fraud
One day hardly passes without an incidence of a fake pastor or a church fraud....
Read More How to use background checks to protect company assets
Your corporate success relies on the people you bring on board. It is important to...
Read More Occupational Fraud
With the economy struggling to find its foothold, many businesses and individuals are facing the...
Read More Cyber Crime
Cyber crime is a term that covers a broad scope of criminal activity using a...
Read More WANNACRYPT / wannacry: UPDATED BRIEFING
WHAT IS WANNACRYPT ( Wanna C r y / Wcry) ? A new ransomware attack, perhaps...
Read More Inside the Fraudster’s Mind
Understanding the thoughts and feelings of a fraudster can provide valuable insight to enhance an...
Read More Crime Scene Investigations
A crime scene is really an accumulation of things that is, when taken together and...
Read More Fraud Investigations
Fraud investigations begin with a meeting between the investigator and client. The person launching the...
Read More Get Certified Today! Become a Certified Security Analyst
You are an ethical hacker. In fact, you are a Certified Ethical Hacker. You dream...
Read More What are fraudulent financial reports and why do they exist?
Fraudulent financial reporting is a deliberate misstatement or omission of financial accounting information intended to...
Read More The Role of Board in Risk Management.
In the past years, boards could rely on management to oversee and manage risk. But...
Read More What is Cyber Crime?
Cyber crime, also called computer crime, is any illegal activity that involves a computer or...
Read More Risk Based Auditing
Audit risk is the risk that the financial statements are materially incorrect, even though the...
Read More Identity fraud vs identity theft
Identity theft Identity theft is when your personal details are stolen, this happens when fraudsters access...
Read More Biometrics
Authentication is the process of determining whether a person is who he or she claims...
Read More Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise Risk Management is a strategic business discipline that supports the achievement of an organization's...
Read More Invest in learning about professional data recovery tools
A disaster recovery is a process or set of procedures to recover and protect a...
Read More Fraud in the Contract and Procurement Process
The rise in contract management and the outsourcing of goods and services has created an...
Read More What is Evidence?
Evidence is anything presented in support of an assertion. This support may be strong or...
Read More Forensics investigations in Uganda
Forensics investigations is a step by step tracing for dots in a digital equipment to...
Read More Document Fraud
Falsifying documents involves altering, changing or modifying a document for the purpose of deceiving another...
Read More How effective is Your Fraud Prevention Programme
One of the ways a company/Organization can prevent fraud is by setting up internal control...
Read More Disguised Fraud
This is a case that involved a high level fraudster. The fraudster was an IT...
Read More Fraud at the workplace
Fraud is a serious problem for all organizations, whether they are corporations, limited liability companies,...
Read More 5 things lawyers should know about Computer/Digital Forensics
Nowadays, the great majority of legal cases involve a digital component that, if properly uncovered...
Read More Be Aware of Advance Fee Frauds.
Advance fee frauds ask for payment up front before the deal can go through. The...
Read More Intellectual property theft
Intellectual property theft involves robbing people or companies of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions....
Read More Why forensics investigations fail in Uganda
Why are they never conclusive enough in the courts of law? Forensics investigations is a...
Read More Become a Qualified Investigator
Criminal investigation involves the study of facts, used to identify, locate and prove the guilt...
Read More HOW BEST CAN YOU DEFEND YOUR NETWORK?
Organizational focus on cyber defense is more important than ever as cyber breaches have a...
Read More HOW TO KEEP CHILDREN SAFE FROM CYBER THREATS
Now days many parents don’t have time to investigate what their children are doing on...
Read More What is Risk Management?
Risk Management is the process of identifying, analyzing and responding to risk factors. Risk Management...
Read More Shocking News on Fraud at Makerere University
It would be unreasonable to expect a student with the reading, writing and computing abilities...
Read More Email fraud, Are you secure?
In 2013, two businessmen with various business operations in Kampala filed a case against a...
Read More Certified Network Defender is a must have.
Certified Network Defender is a hands-on, instructor-led network security certification training program. It is a...
Read More How to protect yourself from ATM fraud as a customer
Familiarize yourself with the ATM machines of your bank especially the card slot entry area....
Read More What is Identity fraud and identity theft?
Identity theft is when your personal details are stolen and identity fraud is when those...
Read More My Experience in Passing CFE Exam
The Journey of a thousand miles starts with a step In 2012, after I graduated...
Read More Telecom Fraud in Uganda
Every year when the telecom companies submit their financial statements, they are expected to give...
Read More Social Network Era: How safe is your information assets
Below is the presentation I made at Infosec 2014 seminar on 20th August 2014 at...
Read More Two reasons why you need computer security training
When it comes to personal security, how sure are you that you are not being...
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