Shifting into
high gear:
mitigating risks
and demonstrating
returns
Global Forensic Data
Analytics Survey 2016
. Contents
Foreword3
Executive summary
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01 Demand growing across the board
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02 A maturing FDA landscape
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03 FDA deployment: what are the key hurdles?
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04 What does good look like?
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05 Embracing the FDA revolution: going the distance
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Survey approach
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Contact information
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. Foreword
Forensic data analytics (FDA) has evolved
considerably over the past two years. In
our 2014 survey, we found that, although
companies were deploying some forms of FDA,
many were missing opportunities to leverage
emerging advanced tools that would enable
them to greatly strengthen and improve
their risk management and investigative
response programs.
In today’s digital world, there are rapidly expanding opportunities
for innovation and growth. Unfortunately, these new opportunities
have also brought new fraud risks in the forms of cyber breaches
and internal threat.
The mission-critical nature of information and the ease of digital
access make organizations particularly vulnerable to cyber
criminals and malicious insiders. Increasing regulatory
pressure further compounds the need to address these risks
with rigor.
As a result of these push and pull factors, the demand for FDA
investment has never been higher, and FDA deployments are
maturing.
Organizations recognize the value of FDA, and many
are realizing positive results by deploying advanced technologies
against meaningful volumes and varieties of data.
But companies need to recognize the full spectrum of value
that FDA can bring — far beyond fraud detection — and be more
aggressive in its implementation. Although senior management has
gained much appreciation for the value of FDA, they need to adopt
it beyond the scope of traditional fraud risk management, take
action, and invest in the right skills and technologies to realize its
potential.
This report is based on interviews with 665 executives between June
and September 2015, augmented by the insights of our global Fraud
Investigation & Dispute Services (FIDS) practice. We hope it helps
businesses understand and articulate the compelling business
case for FDA and harness FDA’s full potential in managing risk.
We would like to thank all of the respondents and business leaders
for taking the time to participate in this survey and for their
valuable contributions, observations and insights.
On the upside, advanced data analytics tools are becoming
mainstream.
New technologies and surveillance monitoring
techniques are being developed to help companies manage
current and emerging fraud risks, and there is growing
awareness of FDA’s benefits at the executive and board levels.
David Stulb
Global Leader
Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services
David Remnitz
Global Leader, Forensic Technology & Discovery Services
Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services
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. Executive summary
01 Demand growing across the board
Organizations are looking to use FDA due to concerns over growing
current and emerging threats, as well as the increasingly complex
regulatory environment. Across all industries, the fastest-growing
threats in the fraud risk universe are from cyber breaches and
insider threats — and respondents recognize the importance of
harnessing FDA to respond to these new threats.
Executive corporate management is listed as the top beneficiary of
FDA as indicated by 73% of the respondents, followed by Internal
Audit and the Board at 69% and 68%, respectively. Perhaps not
surprisingly, C-suite respondents also indicate a greater sense of
urgency around FDA adoption with 74% agreeing they need to do
more to improve their current anti-fraud procedures, including the
use of FDA tools, as compared to 69% for non-C-suite respondents.
02 A maturing FDA landscape
Focus on major FDA deployments is growing compared to our
2014 survey results, with higher levels of spending on advanced
tools and proactive surveillance monitoring of larger volumes of
data from a wider variety of sources. To get the most out of these
sophisticated tools, organizations are increasing their in-house
capabilities as indicated by a 22% increase in the number of
in-house deployments as compared to the 2014 survey.
In response
to this trend, we also see leading technology companies introducing
anti-fraud, surveillance monitoring and insider threat product
offerings designed to address wide varieties of fraud and
litigation risks across the enterprise.
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Despite improving maturity overall, many organizations lack
an understanding of the wide spectrum of value that FDA can deliver —
and few are fully realizing the potential of their FDA deployments,
particularly around the cost savings and efficiencies gained from
the use of FDA. When asked about the main benefits of using FDA,
79% indicate the ability to detect fraud that they couldn’t detect
before, and 78% indicate earlier fraud detection; however, only
42% indicate reduced costs of their anti-fraud programs.
03 FDA deployment:
what are the key hurdles?
Senior management can see the need for FDA to address key
business risks but are proving reluctant to fund it. Two years
ago, 64% of our respondents felt that their investment in FDA
was sufficient; this year, only 55% are confident they are spending
enough.
This discrepancy between perception and practice is
partly because decision-makers aren’t aware of the broad range
of business value that FDA can deliver.
FDA success can be improved by:
• Articulating the business case for FDA to management —
When articulating the return on investment, companies need to
focus on the full spectrum of value that FDA can deliver, including
cost reduction and improved risk management.
• Building teams with the right skills — Successful deployments
require technical skills, domain knowledge and data analytics
expertise, yet few organizations have all of these skills in place.
• Deploying the right technology — While we have seen an
increased level of adoption of advanced FDA technologies, there
is still a substantial number of companies that are not using
them. Many of those tools are vital for analyzing large quantities
of multi-format data.
. What do we mean by
forensic data analytics?
04 What does good look like?
Our survey found those organizations receiving positive results
from FDA have a number of elements in common. They are
more likely to:
In this document, FDA refers to the ability to collect and
use data, both structured (e.g., general ledger or transaction
data) and unstructured (e.g., email, voice or free-text fields
in a database), to prevent, detect, monitor or investigate
potentially improper transactions, events or patterns of behavior
related to misconduct, fraud and noncompliance issues.
• Use advanced technology
What is cybercrime?
almost every circumstance, those companies using
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more sophisticated analytics, beyond basic spreadsheet-type,
rules-driven tests, report better fraud detection in less time.
These successful FDA deployments are harnessing sophisticated
analytics tools, including social media and web monitoring, voice
searching and analysis, and visualization and reporting tools.
In the context of this survey, cybercrime is the use of a
computer and its network to commit fraud such as illicit
transferring of funds, disrupting critical business operations,
or stealing intellectual property (IP), confidential personal
data and other critical digital assets.
• Analyze more data
have observed a positive correlation between the use of large
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data volumes (over 10 million records) and achieving positive
results of FDA implementation. The same is relevant to data
variety, with those reporting positive results also applying a much
broader array of both structured and unstructured data sources.
• Invest more of their total compliance and anti-fraud spend
in FDA
Our survey found those reporting positive results invest
one-third of their total anti-fraud program budget on FDA.
Around the world, many leading organizations are harnessing
the full benefits of FDA, but others are struggling to do so.
Boards and senior-level management who see FDA’s potential,
but have yet to come to terms with the investment required,
need to understand the broad range of value that sophisticated
analytics can deliver. Once this is appreciated, the business
case for FDA becomes clear.
What is an insider threat?
A current or former employee, contractor or business partner
with authorized access to an organization’s network system
or data who intentionally uses this access to compromise the
confidentiality, integrity or availability of the organization’s
data or information systems.
Insider threats can include fraud,
IP theft, unauthorized trading, espionage or information
technology (IT) sabotage — where a malicious insider disrupts
information systems, breaches confidentiality or destroys
or corrupts data.
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. Demand growing
across the board
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Current and emerging risks are converging to create
greater urgency for organizations to use FDA.
Cybercrime, insider threats and aggressive
regulatory pressure make FDA a growing
priority for boards and senior management.
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62%
44%
32%
report increasing level of concern
over “cyber breach or insider
threat.”
report increasing level of concern
over “bribery and corruption risk.”
believe the level of concern over
“cyber breach or insider threat”
has increased significantly.
Current and emerging risks driving demand
This year’s survey revealed the fastest-growing threats in the fraud and investigative risk
universe are from cyber breaches and insider threats, which include malicious insiders
stealing, manipulating or destroying data. Historically, responsibility for managing cyber
and insider threat risks falls to an organization’s IT and security departments — not those
represented in our survey, who are responsible for the anti-fraud and compliance programs.
Yet 62% of our respondents report increasing level of concern regarding this area,
while 32% believe it has increased significantly.
Figure 1: Cyber breach or insider threat is clearly top of mind
Cyber breach or insider threat
32%
Bribery and corruption risk
Internal fraud
(travel and entertainment
abuse, collusion, etc.)
17%
Financial statement fraud
Money laundering
�▀ Signiï¬cantly increased
8%
9%
â–€ Slightly increased
8%
47%
22%
54%
19%
59%
18%
9%
7%
6%
62%
16%
â–€ Not changed
4%
45%
32%
12%
9%
31%
27%
10%
Capital projects risk
Merger and acquisitions risk
30%
61%
9%
7%
â–€ Decreased
Q. ver the past two years, how has the level of concern about each risk area changed in your organization?
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Base: All respondents (665)
The “Don’t know” percentages have been omitted to allow better comparison among the responses given.
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. Concerns about cyber and insider threat extend across industries. Nine out of nine
industries rate the threat of external and internal cyber breaches as their top risk.
This strong consistency in the perception of cyber threat is not surprising now that cyber
attacks (both internal and external) are a fact of life for business, posing a dynamic,
relentless challenge for leading companies. With a growing imperative to protect digital
assets — not just physical ones — our respondents see FDA as playing a critical role in
managing a broader spectrum of risks. Interestingly, “cyber breach or insider threat” is the
second-highest risk area where 70% of respondents are using FDA.
“Internal fraud” risk, an
area that has long been managed using FDA, was ranked as the top use case at 77%.
Figure 2. Perceived risks by industry — the percentage of respondents who have seen the increased level of risks
Cyber breach
or insider threat
Bribery and
corruption risk
Internal fraud (travel
and entertainment
abuse, collusion, etc.)
Capital
projects risk
Merger and
acquisition risk
Money laundering
Financial services
74%
50%
47%
24%
25%
46%
Life sciences
63%
49%
49%
42%
29%
19%
Transportation
46%
46%
38%
38%
33%
29%
Manufacturing
48%
35%
32%
32%
24%
18%
Consumer
products, retail
and wholesale
64%
38%
42%
35%
21%
23%
Technology,
communications
and entertainment
55%
48%
49%
34%
29%
17%
Oil and gas
61%
52%
35%
35%
37%
19%
Mining
52%
37%
30%
30%
33%
11%
Power and utilities
56%
41%
34%
46%
44%
10%
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. Figure 3. Top fraud risks using FDA
Internal fraud
77%
(travel and entertainment
abuse, collusion, etc.)
70%
Cyber breach or insider threat
68%
Bribery and corruption risk
60%
Financial statement fraud
44%
Capital projects risk
43%
Money laundering
34%
Merger and acquisitions risk
10%
Other
Q. In which of these risk areas or types of fraud does your company use FDA when investigating
incidents and/or monitoring risks?
Base: All respondents (665)
Multiple answers allowed, may exceed 100%.
Regulatory enforcement becoming more rigorous
and widespread
43%
FDA demand is also being driven by increasing government and public scrutiny of fraud
risk, with 43% of respondents citing regulatory pressure as one of the main reasons
behind their investment in FDA, second only to responses to growing cybercrime risks.
C-suite respondents are more likely to be concerned about regulatory pressure. This is
not surprising considering that high-profile regulatory enforcement actions have been
dominating the headlines, leading to billions of dollars in fines and the prosecution of
individual executives.
of respondents cite regulatory pressure
as one of the main reasons driving their
investment in FDA.
Figure 4.
Top drivers of FDA investment
53%
Response to growing cybercrime risks
43%
Increased regulatory scrutiny
32%
Increased risk of fraud in emerging markets
31%
Pressure from the board or management team
Seeking greater cost efï¬ciency in the fraud
risk management process
30%
Recent fraud risk assessment ï¬ndings in the organization
26%
Need for more robust third-party due diligence
25%
13%
Increasing merger and acquisition activities
9%
Increased calls to your “whistle-blower line”
Other main reasons
4%
Q. What are the main reasons that you are planning to increase your investment in FDA capabilities?
Base: Respondents who plan to increase investment in FDA (405)
Multiple answers allowed, may exceed 100%.
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. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Department of Justice
continue to lead the way in robust domestic and extraterritorial enforcement actions.
The SEC’s Financial Reporting and Audit Task Force is now deploying cutting-edge FDA
tools to mine data for fraud and is engaging whistle-blowers in unprecedented numbers
to uncover financial reporting and disclosure problems.
“ t the SEC, we have made great strides in leveraging data and technology
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to detect and pursue misconduct. In the enforcement arena, the Commission
is using data analytics to help identify wrongdoers and conduct streamlined
investigations to optimize our resources.”
US$4.2b
SEC Chair Mary Jo White, opening remarks at the 21st Annual International Institute
for Securities Enforcement and Market Oversight, 2 November 2015
monetary remedies in this past fiscal year
Outside the United States, regulators in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and France,
among others, have been involved in major enforcement actions. In Asia, prosecutions
for corruption are increasingly frequent, with China leading the way.
Parallel investigations are also becoming more common, with the European Commission
and Japanese regulators teaming with their US counterparts on cartel investigations.
Cross-border cooperation among prosecutors is strong and will only strengthen as
emerging markets, including India, Brazil and many Asian countries, pass anti-bribery/
anti-corruption legislation or take steps to bolster their enforcement efforts.
Increased urgency by C-suites to adopt FDA
The cost of getting it wrong is becoming too grave to ignore. Facing the severity of fraud
risks and the threat of regulatory enforcement, C-suite respondents have a stronger sense
of urgency around FDA adoption than other executives.
Overall, 69% of respondents agree
with the statement: “We need to do more to improve our current anti-fraud procedures,
including the use of FDA tools.” But this percentage jumped to 74% for the C-suite cohort.
In addition, 31% of respondents say one of the main reasons to increase FDA investment
is pressure from the board or management team. They also cite corporate executive
management and the board as the first- and third-highest beneficiaries of FDA activities,
moving up from second and fifth, respectively, two years ago.
74%
of C-suite
respondents
“ e need to do more to improve
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our current anti-fraud procedures,
including the use of FDA tools.”
“ s we look toward COSO guidance around
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conducting fraud risk assessments as part of
an effective internal controls framework, we
will see a strong emphasis on the use of
forensic data analytics.”
Vincent Walden, Partner, Forensic Technology & Discovery Services, FIDS US, EY
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. Case studies
Case study
Fraud investigation—
financial loss assessment
Data-driven financial
reconstruction
in a regulatory
investigation
Data-driven
financial
reconstruction
in a regulatory
investigation
Industry: Manufacturing
Country: United States
The situation:
A publicly traded technology manufacturer received a
subpoena from a regulatory authority alleging improprieties
around revenue recognition.
How FDA helped:
The use of FDA helped the investigation team model the
order-to-cash process, including sales orders, invoices,
receipts, shipping, discounts and rebates. The team then
executed tests to isolate the timing of certain transactions
and identify high-risk customers for further inquiry. Advanced
FDA techniques included using text analytics to analyze
the free-text notes column in the order entry system to
understand the nature of payments and identify suspicious
language or corrupt intent. As a result, the company was able
to analyze 100% of the sales data within the time period for
which they were required to respond to the subpoena and run
targeted tests to evaluate the sufficiency of the regulator’s
claims on an expedited basis.
Fraud
investigation—
financial loss
assessment
Industry: Power and utilities
Country: Eurozone
The situation:
A multinational utilities company faced major financial loss for
fraudulent credit notes and the manipulation of billing data.
How FDA helped:
The project team collected and analyzed nearly 1 TB of
data from SAP IS-U (SAP Module for Utilities) to assess
the losses and potential impact on the organization and to
identify control weaknesses for immediate remediation.
They
first conducted a data mining and clustering procedure to
understand the variety of billing and credit entry processes.
The analyses were then used to identify potential fraud
patterns by applying statistical methods and customized data
analytics. The results revealed more fraud patterns and the
fact that outside collaborators were involved. The outcome
helped the company assess the damage for insurance
claim purposes and take immediate actions to implement
remediation procedures within its control environment.
The
company now plans to implement a monitoring program
leveraging the FDA tools developed during the investigation.
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. A maturing
FDA landscape
2
Many organizations are increasing their focus on FDA deployment,
with increased spending on advanced tools and proactive monitoring
of larger volumes of data. However, some are failing to recognize
that the value FDA can bring to anti-fraud programs goes beyond
just detection and investigation.
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Companies want to spend more on FDA
to manage today’s risk
2014
Growing organizational demand for greater FDA investment is being driven by awareness of
the value it can deliver and emerging risks. We expect this trend to continue into the future
as data volumes and varieties continue to expand, more technologies become available and
regulatory scrutiny increases. Two years ago, 64% of our respondents felt their investment
in FDA was sufficient; this year, only 55% are confident they are spending enough.
Three out of five respondents plan to increase their spend on FDA over the next two years.
We see a clear correlation between the respondents’ FDA spend and their perceptions
of risk in the chart below.
64%
2016
55%
of respondents think their FDA spend
is sufficient.
Figure 5: Risk driving spend: correlation between the FDA spend and perceptions of increased level of risk
62%
Cyber breach or insider threat
Bribery and corruption risk
Internal fraud
(travel and entertainment
abuse, collusion, etc.)
Capital projects risk
Merger and acquisitions risk
Financial statement fraud
Money laundering
72%
44%
52%
42%
50%
34%
39%
28%
33%
26%
29%
25%
32%
3/5
of respondents plan to spend more on FDA.
�▀ All respondents ▀ Those who expect to increase FDA spend over the next two years
Q. ver the past two years, how has the level of concern about each risk area changed in your organization?
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Base: All respondents (665); those who expect to increase FDA spend over the next two years (406)
Multiple answers allowed, may exceed 100%.
Companies working with data sets that push the limit of traditional spreadsheet tools
(i.e., more than 10 million records) are also more likely to be planning significant increases
in their FDA spend.
In contrast, only 13% of those analyzing fewer than 1 million data
records are planning to significantly increase investment in FDA.
“ n my opinion, we need to invest more money to get the best forensic
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data analysis tools that are available in the market.”
Head of Internal Audit, Capital Markets, France
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. 63%
of respondents
spend at least half of their FDA
investment on proactive initiatives
Companies are investing more of their FDA spend
on proactive initiatives
Given so much management focus on fraud prevention, this year’s survey included
a new question to gauge how much of a company’s FDA activities are proactive — as
opposed to merely reacting to an investigation or adverse event. The results are
striking. Sixty-three percent of the respondents are investing at least half of their
FDA spend on proactive monitoring initiatives.
We believe this strong proactive stance is in response to regulatory enforcement
concerns, as well as improved surveillance analytics and compliance monitoring
offerings in the market. With governments imposing substantial monetary penalties —
sometimes accompanied by prison sentences for executives — organizations have
every incentive to improve their FDA programs to better prevent and detect fraud.
Companies investing in proactive activities also understand the value of FDA in reducing
the costs of anti-fraud programs.
According to the Association of Certified Fraud
Examiners’ most current Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse,
those companies with proactive data analytics in place saw a cost per fraud incident
that was 59.7% lower (roughly US$100,000 lower per incident) than those companies
not using proactive data analytics — more than any other control listed in the survey.
Further, the median duration of a fraud incident with respect to the presence of proactive
data analytics was half the time — 12 months versus 24 months.
Growing sophistication in technology and the use of data
Technology maturity is also growing. The use of visualization tools has doubled since our
2014 survey. Respondents also report the increasing use of social and web monitoring
tools and statistical analysis and data mining packages.
Half of the respondents, however, report that their adoption of advanced analytics
technologies remains immature.
For example, spreadsheets are still the most common tool
used to manage fraud risk, with more than three-quarters of respondents indicating their
use. Clearly, there is still more work to be done.
The nature, variety and complexity of structured and unstructured data is changing at an
exponential rate — causing companies to rethink how they monitor rogue or noncompliant
activities. The Internet of Things has added another dimension to the data.
In many
organizations, machines are communicating with other machines without human
involvement. Employees are often communicating outside corporate networks using
social media, mobile phones or web logs. All of these scenarios exemplify how traditional
monitoring or investigative analytics techniques deployed a decade ago may no longer
be as effective given the nature, variety and complexity of data in today’s organizations.
Given that unstructured content accounts for around 90% of an organization’s digital
information,1 it’s encouraging to see that 75% of respondents routinely analyze a wide
range of structured and unstructured data.
Businesses can yield great benefits by
combining structured and unstructured data (emails, file metadata, audio and video files,
etc.) in their analysis to gain a comprehensive view of their risk environment. For example,
comments from sales logs can show an individual’s intent to commit a fraud, while a
financial transaction can provide the evidence.
Unlocking the Hidden Value of Information, IDC website, www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24993814, accessed 23 November 2015.
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. Figure 6: The increasing adoption of advanced FDA technologies
Visualization
Social media
Statistical analysis
�▀ 2016
12%
25%
25%
21%
18%
11%
â–€ 2014
Q. Which FDA tools do you utilize in managing fraud risk?
Base: 2016 all respondents (665); 2014 all respondents (466)
Multiple answers allowed, may exceed 100%.
Multiple deployment options
Increasing numbers of organizations are bringing FDA deployment in-house.
Respondents conducting FDA completely in-house increased from 45% two years ago
to 67%. In the last two years, leading technology companies have also responded to this
growing in-house FDA trend by introducing enterprise-class surveillance and insider threat
capabilities to help companies better prevent, detect, monitor or investigate potentially
improper transactions, events or patterns of behavior related to misconduct, fraud and
noncompliance issues.
For example, IBM has introduced IBM Counter Fraud, and SAP has introduced SAP
Fraud Management. SAS has also strengthened its offering around its Fraud & Security
Intelligence solution.
However, deploying these new software capabilities, whether in-house,
via the cloud or through a managed service model, requires a multidisciplinary group of
professionals who have domain and subject matter knowledge (to ask the right business
questions), data science and data management expertise (to translate business questions
into meaningful analytics), as well as systems and IT infrastructure expertise (to maintain and
secure the platform for use).
Figure 7: Multiple deployment options
9%
24%
�▀
67%
We do this completely in-house
and plan to continue doing so.
�▀ We do this completely in-house it.
but we are considering outsourcing
â–€ Outsource either on a project-by-project
basis or via a managed service agreement.
Q. Which deployment model best describes how you conduct FDA as part of the company’s anti-fraud program?
Base: All respondents (665)
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. Top challenges faced by those currently
considering outsourcing:
Challenges in combining data sources
Lack of budget and resources
Lack of expertise
Inadequate technologies currently
in place
Notably, a large percentage of companies are also seeking outside help for FDA, either
on a project-by-project basis or through managed service arrangements. Twenty-four
percent of respondents are already outsourcing either as projects or as a managed
service; another 9% are considering it. In these circumstances, the benefits of outsourcing
outweigh the large capital investment required to build in-house FDA technologies and skill
sets. Outsourcing enables the companies to quickly ramp up their FDA capabilities and
focus on the analytics consumption and interpretation.
The finding is consistent with IDC’s
market forecast for business analytics process outsourcing services, which estimates a
14.2% compound annual growth rate through 2019.2
Organizations are not recognizing the full spectrum
of value FDA can deliver
Despite the risk universe evolving, the main perceived benefits of FDA have not changed to
keep pace. In line with our survey’s findings two years ago, respondents continue to identify
the top three perceived benefits of using FDA in their anti-fraud programs as “ability to
detect fraud that we couldn’t detect before,” “early fraud detection” and “faster
response in investigations.”
Figure 8: Main benefits of FDA — not fully realized
79%
Ability to detect fraud that we couldn’t detect before
78%
Early fraud detection
71%
Faster response in investigations
66%
Increased business transparency
Getting the business to take more responsibility
for managing the company's anti-fraud program
64%
42%
Reduced costs of anti-fraud program
Q. What do you think are the main benefits of using FDA in your anti-fraud program?
Base: All respondents (665)
The “Other” percentages have been omitted to allow better comparison among the responses given.
Multiple answers allowed, may exceed 100%.
As indicated in Figure 8, although the top three selected benefits of using FDA are clearly
important, both from risk mitigation and cost avoidance perspectives, it is surprising to see
how few respondents selected “reduced costs of anti-fraud program.” Only two in five see
the potential for FDA to reduce the costs of their anti-fraud programs as a main benefit.
By using current technology capabilities and leading analytics to help focus investigative
and compliance monitoring efforts, FDA can be an important enabler of cost reduction.
IDC Worldwide Business Analytics Services Forecast, 2015–2019, November 2015.
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.
“ We need to] … promote a culture of risk management and use of analysis in the areas of
[
anti-fraud across all divisions in the company, not just at the central management level.”
Internal Audit Executive, Retail and Wholesale, Italy
Across the board, the majority of respondents believe they have a long way to go to reap
the full value of FDA in reducing program costs, with only 9% confident that they are fully
realizing the benefit.
Figure 9: Realizing the full benefits of FDA
Faster response in investigations
20%
Increased business transparency
20%
Getting the business to take more responsibility for
managing the company's anti-fraud program
Reduced costs of anti-fraud program
�▀ Fully realized
â–€ Realized to some extent
42%
9%
22%
56%
9%
5%
18%
55%
11%
10%
17%
54%
14%
â–€ Realized to a small extent
17%
58%
19%
Ability to detect fraud that we couldn’t detect before
Early fraud detection
53%
9%
22%
27%
11%
22%
â–€ Not realized at all
Q. To what extent have you realized the benefits of FDA over the past two years?
Base: All respondents (665)
“ e continue to see the global impact of
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cyber breach both from internal and external
threats. The monitoring and analysis of an
organization’s structured and unstructured
data assets will be fundamental to the early
detection and investigation exercise.”
Paul Walker, Partner, Forensic Technology & Discovery Services, FIDS UK, EY
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. Case studies
Proactive fraud risk
assessment and testing
Risk review of distributor
management system
Financial
statement audit
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assessment and testing
Industry: Life sciences
Country: uropean company with operations in Asia-Pacific,
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Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Latin America
The situation:
A multinational life sciences company sought a global compliance
and anti-bribery/anti-corruption monitoring program and wanted
to leverage the data from its highest-risk markets to proactively
identify risks and improve its audit sampling.
How FDA helped:
The project team collected and analyzed data from various systems
of multiple business units in more than 10 countries across the
globe. They built tailored dashboards for each market, including
transaction and vendor risk scoring, comparative customer analysis
and social network analytics, customized for local languages.
The team also developed standardized data requests and
extraction templates to facilitate future data analytics processes
and compliance audits. The project enhanced the organization’s
global monitoring program by integrating multiple structured and
unstructured data sources and designing tests that helped identify
potentially improper payments to high-risk vendors, employees
and distributors. Besides fraud detection and process
improvements, the FDA efforts helped the audit and compliance
team save time and money during fieldwork activities.
Risk review of distributor
management system
Industry: Consumer products
Country: India
The situation:
A leading consumer products company based in India planned
to perform a risk review of its distributor management system
in order to identify vulnerabilities in its sales process and develop
subsequent risk mitigation strategies.
How FDA helped:
The company, working with an outside professional services firm,
developed fraud scenarios based on potential rogue transactions.
The team analyzed sales transactions and other relevant data
amounting to over 50 million records pertaining to the company’s
India distributors for a period of three years.
Detailed risk analyses
were carried out to identify high-risk distributors along with the
associated financial implications for the company. Visualization
dashboards were created to provide senior leadership with
complete visibility across all of the distributors. Based on the
outcome of the data analytics performed, the company is
formulating a risk monitoring and control plan.
Financial statement audit
Industry: Media and entertainment
Country: Australia
The situation:
A media and entertainment company needed to better
understand the risk of financial loss.
How FDA helped:
The company teamed with a professional services firm to
develop a suite of analytics tests and data visualization
dashboards across the accounts payable (AP) process, including
employee-vendor relationships, duplicate payments, segregation of
duties and delegation of authority.
The dashboards gave the company
great visibility over the internal controls and fraud risks by testing 100%
of its AP transactions in a timely fashion. The company ultimately
expanded the FDA deployment to include monitoring of additional
processes and risk areas.
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. Respondents in these markets have the greatest sense of urgency to adopt FDA.
A much larger percentage (78%) of respondents from these markets agree with the
statement: “We need to do more to improve our current anti-fraud procedures, including
the use of FDA tools,” compared with 65% of organizations in developed markets.
Figure 10: Perceived effectiveness by country
83% 78% 78% 78%
66% 72%
55%
Switzerland
58%
Italy
Germany
60% 60%
Singapore
63%
France
US
65% 65%
UAE
73% 70%
68%
Ireland
South Africa
Brazil
India
Respondents
using FDA to
actively address
cyber breach or
insider threat
Mexico
Emerging markets versus
developed markets
Australia
75%
UK
78% of respondents from emerging
markets agree with the above
statement, compared with 65% of
organizations in developed markets.
Japan
88%
China / Hong Kong
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more to improve
our current antifraud procedures,
including the use
of FDA tools.”
Greater sense of urgency in emerging markets
�▀ Developed markets ▀ Emerging markets
Q. o what extent do you agree that “We need to do more to improve our current anti-fraud procedures,
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including the use of FDA tools”?
Base: All respondents (665)
48% 59%
Respondents
saying their
budget is
“sufficient”
79% 61%
Respondents
saying they
need to improve
management
awareness of the
benefits of FDA
79% of emerging markets
respondents think that FDA
could play a significant role in
combating cyber and insider risks.
The sense of urgency, however, is focused more on using FDA to combat traditional fraud,
such as bribery and corruption, than to address cybercrime or insider threat. Only 66%
of respondents in emerging markets are using FDA to actively address cyber breaches
or internal threats, compared with 72% in developed markets. This is not to suggest that
organizations in emerging markets don’t realize the potential for FDA to manage cyber
and insider risks.
On the contrary, 79% of emerging markets respondents think that FDA
could play a significant role in combating cyber and insider risks. Focusing FDA investment
on more traditional fraud risks is understandable given likely funding constraints and the
underlying maturity of the local market.
Forty-eight percent of emerging markets respondents say their budget is “sufficient,”
compared with 59% of their peers in developed markets. The funding challenge is directly
tied to management awareness.
A significant 79% of emerging markets respondents say
they need to improve management awareness of the benefits of FDA, compared with 61%
in developed markets. The resulting focus of FDA investment on more traditional fraud risks
rather than cybercrime or internal threats appears to be due to budgets and is clearly a gap
to be bridged.
“n Asia-Pacific, we are seeing more and more companies
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investing in advanced forensic data analytics capabilities
for effective compliance monitoring, as well as fraud
prevention and detection.”
Reuben Khoo, Principal, Forensic Technology & Discovery Services, FIDS Singapore, EY
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. FDA deployment:
what are the
key hurdles?
3
To realize FDA’s full potential, organizations need to deploy
the right technology and develop new skills. But to justify the
investment required on both fronts, FDA proponents must be able
to articulate a business case that demonstrates the full value chain
of FDA.
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. Making the business case for FDA to management
Our survey reveals that organizational reluctance to invest significantly in FDA is partly
due to lack of management buy-in around its potential return on investment. Respondents
believe they need to be better equipped to articulate the business case of FDA to
management: 68% say they need to improve management’s awareness of the benefits
of FDA in their anti-fraud programs.
Business context
of FDA
When articulating the business value
of FDA, the conversation needs to
focus on the full spectrum of business
value and stakeholder beneficiaries.
Below are common use cases:
1
2
3
4
5
Regulatory and litigation
response
“ We need to] … educate management on what constitutes adequate funding. It’s not
[
just about support from management; they must recognize the need to invest in
improving our fraud investigation capabilities.”
Head of Compliance, Banking and Capital Markets, Singapore
This finding highlights a discrepancy between perception and practice. In our survey,
we found that senior management has an increased sense of urgency to adopt FDA, yet
respondents also cite the need to educate this group on the need for sufficient investment.
We believe the gap between perception (that management can see the need for FDA)
and practice (their reluctance to fund it) can stem from the lack of awareness of the full
spectrum of risk management benefits that FDA can deliver.
Figure 11: Growing need for management’s awareness
Internal or cyber-breach
investigations
68%
62% — 2014
Surveillance analytics
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nternal and external
audit support
Industry-specific
fraud and compliance
risk management
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13%
â–€ Agree
18%
â–€ Neither agree nor disagree â–€ Disagree
Q. o what extent do you agree that “We need to improve management’s awareness of the benefits
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of FDA in the company’s anti-fraud program”?
All respondents (665)
The “Don’t know” percentages have been omitted to allow better comparison among the responses given.
. Building teams with the right skills
For successful deployment, the human element of FDA is an important consideration,
requiring three distinct skill sets:
• Technical skills — to understand the organization’s systems and advise on acquiring
additional technology
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different area, and our operational staff
are not analytics people. It is a different
skill set.”
CFO, Transportation, Singapore
• Domain knowledge — familiarity with the relevant risk areas in the business and the
ability to interpret analytics results in the context of the organization
• Data analytics (e.g., data science) expertise — mathematical, computer science
and business intelligence techniques, such as pattern recognition, statistical analysis,
query design and data visualization
Yet few organizations have all of these skills in place, as evidenced by the emerging
trend reported toward outsourcing. Although more than 80% of our respondents say
their organizations have sufficient domain knowledge, about one-third lack data analytics
expertise and nearly 40% lack technical skills. Clearly, one key enabler to realizing the full
value of FDA is adequate training and expertise.
To develop a comprehensive and effective
FDA program, companies need to tie all three skill sets together — this typically involves
teaming among compliance, legal, internal audit, the business and IT.
Deploying the right technology
Respondents continue to rate “challenges in combining data sources” as the top issue to
overcome in implementing FDA. This suggests that organizations need to think about their
data holistically, deploy the right technology and promote the required skill sets. Building
data sets that talk to one another is the first step to successful analytics.
According to Gartner, the need for data
scientists is growing at about three
times that for statisticians and business
intelligence analysts, and there is an
anticipated 100,000-plus-person analytic
talent shortage through 2020.3
Another sticking point for moving to more advanced tools appears to be budget, which our
respondents rank as the second-largest FDA challenge — higher than in our previous survey.
However, analytics technology has improved, making deployment and accessibility easier.
For example, more “self-service” applications are available via the cloud that require less
customization to implement.
Further, significant improvements in computing power and
scalability (i.e., Hadoop), combined with ever-decreasing storage costs, make the use of
FDA more cost-effective. These developments help demonstrate the return on investment
of FDA to senior management and should bolster the FDA business case.
ANALYTICS:
DON’T FORGET
THE HUMAN ELEMENT
DATA AND ANALYTICS IMPACT INDEX
Don’t forget the human element
of your FDA program
“ he human element is perhaps the
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most important factor to achieving
long-term success. To succeed, ask the
right business questions that address key
risks, and engage the stakeholders in the
design.
Only then should they map those
questions to the right technology and
data sources.”
Chris Mazzei, Chief Analytics Officer, EY
“In 39% of leading analytics organizations — versus 12% of the rest — analytics
skills are recognized, effective, efficient, monitored and clearly used to support
decisions. More than one-third of the top 10% also have well-defined competencies
for each role and level, along with robust training programs that address potential
skills shortages.”
EY and Forbes Insights, Data and Analytics Impact Index: don’t forget the human element of
analytics, 2015. http://www.forbes.com/forbesinsights/ey_data_analytics_2015/index.html
Defining and Differentiating the Role of Data Scientist, Doug Laney, Gartner 2012
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.
What does good
look like?
4
Not every organization is getting the full spectrum of value from FDA,
but the ones that are have a number of elements in common. They are
more likely to use advanced FDA tools that enable them to analyze larger
volumes of data from a wide range of data sources, both structured
and unstructured. They put a higher percentage of their total anti-fraud
program spend into FDA, and they tend to focus on proactive activities,
not just reactive ones.
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. Survey respondents who say they are currently getting
positive results or recoveries from their FDA tools are
more likely to:
01 Use advanced technology
Companies that successfully deploy FDA harness sophisticated analytics tools. A much
higher percentage of those who report positive results are using social media, web
monitoring and visualization tools.
agree
Figure 12: The use of advanced FDA technologies
Visualization
20%
Social media
Statistical analysis
�▀ Agree
29%
“ e currently get positive results
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or recoveries from the FDA tools
that we use.”
30%
14%
56%
7%
2%
â–€ Disagree
Q. hat tools do you utilize in managing fraud risk?
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Base: Among all respondents (665), 56% (370) agree and 21% (140) disagree that “We currently get positive
results from the FDA tools that we use.”
Multiple answers allowed, may exceed 100%.
02 Analyze large data volumes
More powerful analytics tools allow organizations to analyze more data, both in terms of
volume and variety. Our survey shows a high correlation between reports of positive results
and the use of large data volumes.
Seventy-nine percent of those reporting positive results,
versus 11% of those who don’t, are using more than 10 million records, which are typically
outside the domain of spreadsheets and thus require more sophisticated tools for analysis. Of
those who are not seeing positive results with FDA, data volume analyzed is low, with only a
small minority of respondents analyzing more than 1 million records. Companies are likely to
see better results from their FDA tools when they start applying them to more of their data.
Figure 13: Data volume used in FDA
Under 1 million
23%
Between
1 million and 10 million
More than 10 million
�▀ Agree
19%
11%
53%
57%
79%
â–€ Disagree
Q.
hat data volume (in records) do you typically work with in your FDA tasks?
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Among all respondents (665), 56% (370) agree and 21% (140) disagree that “We currently get positive results
from the FDA tools that we use.”
Multiple answers allowed, may exceed 100%.
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. Analytical
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insider threat, cyber and fraud risks
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Management override
Facilitation
Rules-based descriptive tests and reporting — By using historical
data with simple and complex analytical weighted tests, significant
value can be achieved to identify areas of risk. Alerts will be
produced when a specific condition is met. For example, if an
employee submits an expense for reimbursement with an expense
amount in excess of a predefined reimbursement policy, then an
alert would be triggered. These types of analytics are often easy
to implement as they rely on predefined conditions and policies.
For this reason, this is the most common FDA technique used
by businesses.
Keyword search — The process scans free text fields and
unstructured data sources to identify suspicious or high-risk
language used.
Companies can develop their own library of highrisk terms that incorporates industry and company-specific jargons,
acro yms and cultural slangs that might be used within the specific
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group being analyzed. The process can be developed to take into
account industry-specific terms, multiple languages and historical
events so that suspicious language can be tagged and escalated for
further review.
Topic modeling and linguistic analysis — These tools use text
analytics to identify suspicious phrases, high-risk topics or
unusual patterns of behavior in the free text components of the
data. Beyond keyword searching, topic modeling seeks to cluster,
quantify and group the key noun or noun phrases in the data,
enabling the investigative team to quickly gain an understanding
of what information may have been compromised or the corrupt
intent of certain business activities.
Linguistic analysis techniques
use the results of text analytics to identify the emotive tone of the
communication — identifying angry, frustrated, secretive, harassing
or confused communications, among other sentiments.
Statistical analysis and machine learning — This technique
leverages historical facts in the data and machine learning to
make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events.
The incorporation of statistical models into this approach further
increases the confidence that items identified as outliers warrant
additional review, thus limiting the amount of false positives and
increasing the efficiency of the review process.
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. Data visualization: dashboards — Dashboards can be very
powerful in the identification of unknown events. Data visualization,
including heat maps, geospatial analysis, time series analysis,
word clouds, stratification and drill-down techniques, enables the
identification of trends and outliers in one, easy-to-understand
interface. By combining transactions scoring, dashboards can
aggregate threats across multiple criteria and data sources to
prioritize the review.
Data visualization: pattern and link analysis — This technique
provides insights, hidden patterns and relationships from vast,
seemingly unrelated data sources. Data, both structured and
unstructured, is provided in a variety of visual and link formats that
can be used to connect one data source to another, exposing hidden
relationships.
“ e are seeing companies broadening their
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forensic data analytics capabilities beyond
traditional anti-fraud and compliance
functions into areas such as legal,
information governance and cybersecurity.”
Todd Marlin, Principal, Forensic Technology & Discovery Services, FIDS US, EY
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.
03 Analyze a wide variety of data
Those seeing positive results are also analyzing a wider variety of data from both
structured and unstructured data sources. Our survey findings indicate that respondents
who have reported positive results from using FDA are using a wider variety of data
sources. This offers another avenue for companies with low-volume data to leverage FDA
more effectively: broadening the data sources they analyze could make their analytics
more effective.
Figure 14: Use of unstructured data sources to analyze risk
Electronic communication
67%
58%
55%
Free text payment descriptions
in accounting data
News feeds or
external data sources
42%
Social media
31%
Customer call or meeting notes
32%
Network system
or server information
â–€ Agree
77%
57%
49%
46%
61%
71%
�▀ Disagree
Q. hich of the above unstructured data sources does your organization use to analyze fraud risks?
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Base: Among all respondents (665), 56% (370) agree and 21% (140) disagree that
“We currently get positive results from the FDA tools that we use.”
Multiple answers allowed, may exceed 100%.
04 Invest more of their total anti-fraud spend in FDA
Those who spend a larger portion of their anti-fraud program budget on FDA have reported
a higher success rate in seeing the positive results of FDA.
Those agreeing with the positive
results statement spend 33% of their total anti-fraud program budget on FDA; those
disagreeing spend only 26%.
Figure 15: Anti-fraud program spend in FDA
33%
â–€ Agree
26%
â–€ Disagree
Q. f your annual spend on preventing and detecting fraud risks, what percentage is on FDA specifically?
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Base: Among all respondents (665), 56% (370) agree and 21% (140) disagree that
“We currently get positive results from the FDA tools that we use.”
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. FDA maturity model
In our 2014 survey, we introduced an FDA maturity model that provides a four-quadrant
framework for assessing an FDA program’s precision (i.e., its ability to better detect relevant
risk issues) and accuracy (i.e., its ability to reduce the number of false positives).
In that model, the most mature companies integrate all four quadrants of analytics
capabilities into their FDA activities, adopting advanced data analytics technologies and
combining structured and unstructured data.
“ e have to bring innovative and effective
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technology to eliminate or curtail money
laundering or cybercrime, as well as to
achieve more transparency.”
CFO, Retail and Wholesale, India
We have since updated the model to show the progression of an organization’s FDA
maturity journey starting from rules-based, descriptive tests and reports, through keyword
searching, data visualization, topic modeling and linguistic analysis, to statistical and
predictive techniques. The model still suggests that as multiple analytics techniques are
incorporated, the fraud detection rate increases and the false positive rate decreases.
It also highlights the importance of considering both structured and unstructured data
sources as indicated by the yellow arrows, regardless of the techniques being used.
Our survey revealed that, overall, companies have increased their FDA maturity since 2014.
The vast majority of companies are adopting more advanced tools. Statistical use cases rose
7%; the use of unstructured data sources rose 8%. Of note, within unstructured data sources,
the highest growth category was the use of email, up 16% from 57% to 73%, while the use of
call log and phone data more than doubled from 20% to 41%.
Finally, the use of visualization
tools also more than doubled, with one in four respondents now using these advanced tools.
Our 2016 survey findings reinforced the validity of our maturity model. In almost every
circumstance, those companies using more sophisticated analytics beyond rules-based
tests report better fraud detection in less time as compared with those using only rulesbased tests.
“ hen combined with industry knowledge
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and investigative experience, insights
gained from the use of leading forensic
data analytics techniques can get clients
faster answers to key business issues.”
Jim McCurry, Partner, EMEIA FIDS Leader,
EY UK
Figure 16: Data analytics maturity journey
Lower
Detection rate
Topic modeling
Linguistic analysis
Complexity
Unstructured
data sources
Keyword
searching
Unstructured
data sources
Higher
Data
visualization
Structured
data sources
Rules-based,
descriptive
tests and
reporting
Higher
Structured
data sources
Statistical
and
predictive
False positives
Lower
Business value and ROI
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. Case studies
Responding to a major cyber
breach — theft of confidential
customer information
Detecting bank
deposit fraud
Responding to a cyber attack —
account takeover and redirect
Surveillance monitoring:
Know Your Trader (KYT)
Responding to a major cyber breach —
theft of confidential customer information
Industry: Retail
Country: United States
The situation:
The company’s information systems were hacked by external
actors, resulting in the loss of confidential customer information.
How FDA helped:
The company used FDA to assess the scope of the breach and
its potential impact on financial systems. It conducted a forensic
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investigation and analysis of financial systems at the operating
system, database and network layers, as well as of log data from a
variety of sources, to assess the reliability of the financial controls.
The company was able to confirm the integrity of its financial
IT system despite the deficiency in logical access controls. The
deficiency in logical access controls was subsequently remediated.
. Responding to a cyber attack —
account takeover and redirect
Industry: Internet service provider
Country: Eurozone
The situation:
A large European top-level domain name registrar reported that
the domain names for major international companies had been
hijacked and redirected to inappropriate internet sites.
How FDA helped:
The company used FDA techniques to isolate the intrusion
mechanism and to evaluate the network infrastructure to
determine if the intrusion had gone beyond the initial attack
vector. Using pattern and link analysis to visualize network
traffic, the investigation team determined that the intrusion
was indeed limited in scope, which the company was able to
demonstrate to regulators. The analyses provided substantive
evidence that the intrusion was limited in scope, causing minimal
damage to the company.
Detecting bank deposit fraud
Industry: Banking
Country: Asia
The situation:
A large Asian bank was seeking to uncover bank deposit
fraud patterns across its retail business in order to improve
its internal controls environment and build trust with
customers and employees.
How FDA helped:
The company used advanced FDA techniques to harness data
never before extracted from its core banking system, which was
linked with data from other business units, such as branch and
internet banking. Several billion bank transactions were loaded
into a network of high-performance computers on-site.
The
bank developed customized counter-fraud risk-scoring models
leveraging visual analytics, link analysis, statistical anomaly
detection and predictive analytics techniques to spot unusual
patterns of potential bank deposit fraud schemes. The bank
uncovered hidden relationships between its customers and
employees, highlighted suspicious insider activities and detected
transactions that were designed to avoid internal reporting
thresholds. The bank put together a fraud task force to review
case observations resulting from the models and validated that
the reduction in false positives had significantly improved.
Surveillance monitoring:
Know Your Trader (KYT)
Industry: Financial services
Country: Australia
The situation:
The bank was investigating concerns raised by an Australian
regulator with respect to various FX and financial benchmark
processes.
Specifically, the regulator issued a series of
compulsory notices to the bank requiring it to produce certain
documents and information.
How FDA helped:
The bank deployed KYT forensic data analysis techniques
spanning more than 10 million documents — covering corporate
email, instant messaging, and Reuters and Bloomberg Chat
data — to identify potentially high-risk communications between
the bank’s securities traders, industry analysts and other parties.
By using FDA, the project team performed targeted document
review by applying:
• A series of keywords and ontologies designed to detect rogue
trading and noncompliance with bank regulations
• A communication risk-scoring model that assigns an agreed
weight to each test and ranks each communication based on
the co-occurrence of how that communication meets each
test criterion
By using FDA to enable a targeted document review based on
text mining and an objective risk-scoring model, the number of
documents requiring review was substantially reduced — cutting
costs by millions, with a better risk mitigation outcome.
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. Embracing the FDA
revolution: going
the distance
5
The rapidly evolving digital world is seeing more and more new
risks for companies to evaluate, manage and mitigate. As a result,
regulators are employing more tools to detect noncompliance and
working across borders to prosecute offenders. This environment
has alerted boardrooms to the need to manage their risk much
more effectively than before.
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. 5
Companies recognize their vulnerabilities, and many more are
using technology and tools, particularly around visualization,
to extract more from their data. In-house capabilities are
increasing, but so are outsourced services. Yet firms are failing
to appreciate the full value of FDA technologies, commit to them
and reap their benefits.
One major reason for FDA tools being less effective than they could be is the lack of
investment. Although the C-suite is aware of the need for these tools, many companies
do not invest enough in the right technology or the right skill sets to follow through and
close the loop.
The signals are clear.
Companies that have benefited greatly from their FDA investment
use advanced technology to analyze both large volumes and a wide variety of data.
They invest more of their total risk management and investigative spend in FDA.
Many organizations have already taken steps to monitor risks proactively. They have in
place systems to monitor, detect and combat risks, rather than merely react to allegations
and crises. Still, 37% of the respondents spend more than half of their FDA investment
on reactive matters.
We believe these organizations should consider investing more in
proactive measures that can result in better risk management up front and reduce potential
cost from fraudulent activities or noncompliance in the long run.
Emerging markets are showing awareness of cybercrime, but they have not committed
as many resources to combating it as their counterparts in developed markets. Lack
of funding appears to be a major constraint, but this also leaves companies at increased
risk of an attack.
The final picture of FDA in 2016 is of a technology that is slowly gaining traction and
beginning to yield returns on investment. But companies have not yet thrown their full
weight behind the paradigm, choosing instead to invest piecemeal and reap only some
of the benefits.
In order to leverage the full power of FDA, firms need to commit, invest
and implement the strategy in its entirety. In doing so, they will join those that are already
riding the crest of the analytics revolution.
“ e need to provide better technical
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training to our people and improve the
quality of information in our corporate
systems and applications.”
Risk Executive, Life Sciences, Brazil
37%
of the respondents spend more than
half of their FDA investment on
reactive matters.
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. Survey approach
Between June and September 2015, researchers from Longitude Research,
a business-to-business research and content agency, conducted 665 interviews across
17 countries with organizations actively using FDA. Respondents had to be the decisionmakers responsible for their company’s anti-fraud program. A breakdown of these survey
respondents is as follows:
Job title
Head of internal audit/CRO
Interviews
192
Industry
Interviews
Financial services
162
Other audit/risk
81
Consumer products, retail and wholesale
149
Other finance
51
Life sciences
59
Head of compliance
61
Oil and gas
62
CFO/FD
68
Power and utilities
41
Head of legal
34
Transportation
24
Financial controller
58
Manufacturing
62
CEO/COO/CIO
28
Mining
27
Head of business unit/division
16
Technology, communications and entertainment
77
Head of investigations
14
Other
2
Head of security
17
Company secretary
5
Other management staff
40
Revenue
Interviews
Geographic location
Interviews
More than US$5b
182
Australia
40
US$1b—US$5b
225
Brazil
40
US$500m—US$1b
63
China (including Hong Kong SAR)
40
US$100m—US$500m
195
France
40
Germany
40
India
40
Ireland
40
Italy
40
Japan
40
Mexico
40
Singapore
40
Middle East (UAE and Saudi Arabia)
40
South Africa
40
Switzerland
40
UK
40
US
65
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. Contact information
The following EY FIDS professionals contributed to this research and are available
for comments:
Contacts
David Stulb
Global FIDS Leader
+44 20 7951 2456
David Remnitz
Global FIDS FTDS Leader
+1 212 773 1311
Area FIDS Leaders
Americas
Brian Loughman
+1 212 773 5343
EMEIA
Jim McCurry
+44 20 7951 5386
Asia-Pacific
Chris Fordham
+852 2846 9008
Japan
Ken Arahari
+81 3 3503 1100
FIDS subject-matter resources
Australia
Warren Dunn
+61 411 755 595
Brazil
Marlon Jabbur
+55 11 2573 3554
China
Chi Chen
+86 21 22284361
France
Olivier Mesnard
+33 1 46 93 67 62
Germany
Anita Kyung-Hee
Kim-Reinartz
+49 211 9352 16812
Hong Kong
Eric Young
+852 2629 3166
India
Mukul Shrivastava
+91 226 192 2777
Ireland
Eoin O’Reilly
+353 1 2212 698
Stefan Schaffer
+49 619 6996 23595
Jack Jia
+852 2846 9002
Anil Kona
+91 806 727 3300
Italy
Fabrizio Santaloia
+39 02 8066 9733
Japan
Ken Arahari
+81 3 3503 1100
Middle East
Mike Adlem
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