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Dates and location
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Hours
Description
Cyberfraud is evolving faster than policies, controls, and people. This session breaks down today’s most common fraud patterns - BEC, invoice and payment diversion, deepfake enabled impersonation, ransomware extortion, and data theft scams and maps out practical detection signals, malinformation indicators, controls, and response steps CPAs can apply in their firms and recommend to clients.
CPAs sit at the controls cybercriminals target most: payments, vendor data, payroll, and executive trust channels. Modern fraud blends technical compromise with human manipulation, driving financial loss, reputational damage, and downstream compliance and reporting consequences. This course equips CPAs to safeguard their own organizations and serve as credible, plain language advisors to clients facing escalating cyber enabled fraud risk.
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify today’s highest-impact cyberfraud schemes targeting finance teams and executives.
- Spot the Red Flags: social engineering cues, payment diversion indicators, and malinformation/deepfake “tells”.
- Apply Practical Controls: verification workflows, segregation of duties, and payment guardrails.
- Understand Incident Response Basics: triage, containment, evidence handling, and reporting paths.
- Strengthen Client Advisory: translating cyber risk into financial, operational, and governance terms.
- Build Fraud-Resilient Culture: training, testing, and “trust-but-verify” habits that actually stick.
Who Will Benefit
CPAs in public practice and industry (audit/assurance, advisory, controllership, finance ops, forensic and risk roles) who want practical, current guidance on cyber-enabled fraud.
No technical background required.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
If available, course materials can be accessed 2 business days prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Claudiu Popa, CISSP, CISA, PMP, CIPP, CRISC, Claudiu specializes in security strategy & information asset protection, advocating education & risk assessment for all businesses. He co-founded Canada's only cybersafety foundation where he oversees academic research & data-driven education programs. In the past two decades, he designed processes, testing methods, standardized security auditing and information assurance systems that scale across supply chains. He is also an advocate of education & risk assessment for businesses in all sectors. He is passionate about curbing cybercrime, deceptive practices, and improving distance learning technology.