Combating IT fraud
28 August 2012
Q: I am the procurement director of a large international organisation. I am concerned that we may suffer from fraud in IT procurement, where non-procurement staff make many decisions. What are the typical indicators that I should be looking for?
A: Brian Farrington, managing director of Brian Farrington Ltd, writes: You may have good reason to be concerned. There is well-documented evidence that IT figures heavily on the scale of likely fraud. As an aside, you may be interested that it is closely followed by construction and marketing.
The first indicator of potential...