Protect Your Nonprofit from Financial Fraud Pt 1

Part 1 Join cybersecurity expert Community IT Innovators CTO Matt Eshleman and Carole Melvin, financial expert from Your Part-Time Controller, for a webinar discussion of the financial threats that face nonprofit organizations and the steps you can take to protect your nonprofit from financial fraud.Community IT has developed many cybersecurity best practices resources and webinars that cover technology threats and risk assessment. We have seen a spike in the number of incidents involving financial fraud over the past year. In this webinar we provide nonprofits with tips to combat these evolving threats. Carole and Matt provide an overview on wirefraud, share some specific examples that they have encountered, and then talk about the steps you can take to protect your organization. They discuss the cybersecurity landscape of threats and risks, and minimum technology protections you must have in place to prevent spoofing, malware, and wire fraud. But an IT tool can’t protect your organization if your leadership doesn’t instill an attitude of healthy skepticism and ensure proper training to prevent fraud, and also put in place official policies and procedures for reporting suspicious activities or emails.As with all our webinars, this presentation is appropriate for an audience of varied IT and security experience. Staff who are involved in processing financial transactions will find it particularly relevant, whether or not you have IT responsibilities. We also encourage IT staff charged with security to attend to learn more about additional protections in training and monitoring financial transactions that can add another line of defense against these sophisticated attacks.Community IT is proudly vendor-agnostic and our webinars cover a range of topics and discussions. Webinars are never a sales pitch, always a way to share our knowledge with our community.Presenters:Carole Melvin is a Senior Manager/Market Leader for the Washington, DC office of Your Part‐Time Controller, LLC (YPTC).  After earning her bachelor’s degree at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her master’s degree at Boston University, she began her career as an auditor with Deloitte serving both for profit and nonprofit clients.  She went on to pursue a career in Accounting and Finance at various nonprofit organizations.   Her combined experience includes more than 20 years of, accounting, auditing and audit management, budgeting, and best practices in nonprofit board administration.  At YPTC, Carole is responsible for generating and managing client relationships, hiring staff, and ensuring they have a rewarding and positive work environment, as well as providing accounting, reporting and management services to nonprofit clients herself. She covered financial topics in previous webinars at YPTC.As the Chief Technology Officer at Community IT, Matthew Eshleman is responsible for shaping Community IT’s strategy in assessing and recommending technology solutions to clients. With a deep background in network infrastructure technology he fundamentally understands how secure technology works and interoperates both in the office and in the cloud.Matt has dual degrees in Computer Science and Computer Information Systems at Eastern Mennonite University and received his MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University.Matt is a frequent speaker at NTEN events and has presented at the Inside NGO conference and Non-Profit Risk Management Summit. He is excited to cover ways to protect your nonprofit from financial fraud in this webinar. _______________________________Start a conversation :)Register to attend a webinar in real time, and find all past transcripts at https://communityit.com/webinars/email Carolyn at [email protected] LinkedIn on reddit/r/nonprofitITmanagementon the Community IT websiteThanks for listening.