Financial Fraud Prevention

The value of effective financial controls has increased dramatically with the increase in fraud and cybercrime. With fraudsters continuing to innovate hacking methods, it is critical for treasury to design policies and procedures that offer better protection from spear phishing, imposter fraud, and internal fraud risks.
Use of spreadsheets introduces risk to treasury and the entire organization. Kyriba helps prevent and detect the risk of fraud and cybercrime by:
  • Centralizing visibility into banking activity and signatories
  • Standardizing payment approval processes
  • Supporting daily and intra-day reconciliations of cash activity and payment acknowledgements
  • Aligning treasury controls with information security policies for application and data security
  • Enforcing internal treasury policies and best practices

Reliance on spreadsheets along with use of bank portals for treasury management no longer provides the protection against sophisticated social engineering scams that target treasury, from within or from the outside.

Treasury needs better protection for not only payment workflows, but also treasury processes. The organization needs the assurance that these controls exist as well as documentation to assess the effectiveness of those controls.

To improve controls and combat fraud & cybercrime, treasury requires at the minimum:
   Standardized workflows
   Multi-factor authentication, especially for payment approvals
   Elimination of email and manual steps in approval workflows
   Treasury-wide audit trails
   Encryption of all treasury data, in transit and at rest
   Full separation of duties, to reduce propensity for internal fraud
   Central control centers for real-time monitoring of data, system access, and control changes

Kyriba delivers these features and more so that your treasury processes align with your organization's information security policies, ensuring the maximum protection against accidental mistakes and fraud attempts. Anything less than best practice is subjecting the organization to unnecessary risk.

 

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