6th Annual
Economic Crime & Cybersecurity Seminar (Brochure)
9am-3:15pm Wednesday October 18th 2017
Carbone Family Auditorium in the ECJS Building
Utica College, 1600 Burrstone Rd Utica, NY 13502-4892
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6 CPE
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8:45am registration and continental breakfast
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9am - 3:15pm program
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12:15pm lunch buffet in UC Cafeteria
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3:15pm optional tour of forensic facility
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Member (IIA, ISACA, ACFE) $85, Nonmember $95, Retirees
$25, Student $25 (students free if not attending lunch)
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Register for the event online: http://www.eiseverywhere.com/283277
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Registration deadline is Wednesday October 11th.
Cancellation after the deadline incurs the cost.
Session 1 | Follow
the Money | Leslie Corbo, Bernie Hyman, Sue Lynch, Don Rebovich | “Follow
the Money” is a hypothetical scenario on terrorist financing that demonstrates
how fraud and financial crime investigation, cybersecurity and traditional
criminal justice skills link together in investigating and apprehending those
responsible for supplying funding to support violent attacks by terrorists.
Session 2 | Locating
Hidden Assets | Jim Conroy, Supervising Detective | Jim will differentiate
between a financial and behavioral profile and how these profiles are used to
aid in a financial investigation. Special emphasis will be placed upon
identifying key financial sources and assets, identifying targets of financial
crimes, and the relevant statutes used in prosecution.
Session
3| Understanding Today’s Fraud Risks and Prevention Strategies| Tim W. Ball | This presentation will cover the latest
statistics about Fraud schemes in today’s business world, as well as providing
helpful tips in identifying the red flags of fraud, and implementing fraud
prevention strategies. Tim will include case studies and discuss some of
the latest investigations he’s worked on, using both the fraud scheme itself
and the subsequent investigation to give insight into how fraud can occur, how
it’s discovered, and how it’s investigated.
Session 4 |The Future
of Ransomware | Nicole Lent, Tony Martino. Nicole and Tony will explore
what ransomware threats look like today, where they are headed, and what individuals
and businesses can do to help protect themselves against these threats.
Session 5 | Panel Discussion
| Len Chinski will moderate a discussion with the day’s speakers while also
taking questions from the audience on current events and topics in Economic
Crime Investigation and Cybersecurity.
3:15pm | Optional
Tour of the Forensic Facility in the Utica College ECJS Building.
Speakers
Leslie Corbo, M.S., Assistant Professor – Cybersecurity. Leslie Corbo is an Assistant
Professor of Cybersecurity in both the BS and MS Cybersecurity programs at
Utica College. Professor Corbo served as a Senior Information Security Program
Manager for PhishMe, Inc., providing services to fortune 500 companies in
educating their workforce in IT-related areas. Professor Corbo has worked with
renowned universities collecting data, designing and conducting studies involving
employee behavior towards phishing emails. Prior to joining PhishMe, she worked
as a cyber security analyst, an IT-security analyst, and an Information System
Security Manager on DoD and DHS Science & Technology efforts. Her areas of
research include phishing emails, sentiment and behavior analysis, and the
Internet of Things.
Bernie Hyman, J.D., Professor of Practice - Economic Crime. Professor Hyman is an
Assistant District Attorney with the Oneida County District Attorney Office.
Professor Hyman was instrumental in in fostering the Memorandum of
Understanding between Utica College and the Oneida County D.A.’s Office and
supervises the District Attorney Economic Crime Investigation Intern Program.
He has successfully prosecuted numerous felony cases involving investment
fraud, elder abuse, embezzlement, larceny, identity theft, and crimes against
revenue.
Sue Lynch, M.S., Professor of Practice -Economic Crime.
Professor Lynch currently serves as Director of Criminal Justice Corporate
& Professional Programs for Utica College. She served as the Director of
the Economic Crime Management Graduate Program for Utica College for four
years, from August, 2011 to August, 2015. Prof. Lynch, has extensive experience
in risk analysis, fraud control development & investigations in the
payments industry. She has held fraud management positions at MasterCard
Worldwide, Goldman Sachs and Comerica Bank. Her outreach efforts have drawn in
entities like the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS),
the U.S, Marshals Service and the Army National Guard to invest professional
effort in aligning respective personnel with tailored certificate
programs.
Don Rebovich, Ph.D, Professor of Criminal Justice. Dr. Rebovich is Coordinator of
Utica College’s Fraud and Financial Crime Investigation (FFCI) program and
Executive Director of Utica College’s Center for Identity Management and
Information Protection (CIMIP). Dr. Rebovich’s background includes research in identity
crime characteristics, economic crime victimization, white collar crime
prosecution, protected health information, human trafficking and
multijurisdictional drug task force development. Dr. Rebovich is co-author of Identity Fraud Trends and Patterns: Building
a Data-Based Foundation for Proactive Enforcement, a national study of U.S.
Secret Service identity theft cases covering a six-year period. He is the
author of Dangerous Ground: The World of
Hazardous Waste Crime, which presented the results of the first empirical
study of environmental crime & its control in the United States.
Jim Conroy, CFE, AHFI, Supervising Detective with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s
Office, Toms River, NJ. Jim is assigned to the Special Investigations Unit -
Economic Crimes Bureau, and also works internal affairs, organized crime and
corruption investigations. Prior to this, he was a Special Agent/Criminal
Investigator assigned to working on an organized crime task force for five
years. He has been in law enforcement for approximately 20 years. Jim holds a
master’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of
Wisconsin-Platteville, and has been teaching online and traditional style for
the past 14 years. He is also certified as a New Jersey state police instructor
of criminal investigation, patrol tactics and firearms, and serves as an expert
witness on fraud related matters. He
holds the CFE and AHFI designations. In addition, he is currently completing
the requirements for his doctoral degree in Criminal Justice.
Tim Ball, CFE, Principal, The Bonadio
Group, CPAs and Consultants. Tim is a Principal in the Fraud and Forensic Accounting
and Litigation Support Team for The Bonadio Group. He joined Bonadio in 2006.
In his tenure with Bonadio, Tim has provided forensic accounting, auditing and fraud
investigations services to a wide variety of organizations, including public
and private corporations in several industries. In addition, Tim has provided
operational consulting and quality control auditing services for several county
governments in New York State, and specializes in mitigating risk and
strengthening internal controls within these entities.
Nicole Lent, Cybersecurity and Fraud Risk
Analyst II for NBT Bank. Nicole joined NBT in 2013 as an Information Security
Analyst. She earned her master’s degree in Cybersecurity with a focus on Cyber
Intelligence from Utica College. Nicole
is responsible for the debit card fraud monitoring program and has stopped over
five million dollars in attempted debit card fraud since taking over the
program in 2015. Nicole is responsible for the enterprise wide training and
education program with a specialty in Social Engineering. Nicole resides in Waterville, NY with her
family where she is involved in her local PTA.
Tony Martino, Northeast Cybersecurity and Forensic
Center Director. Anthony is a 20-year veteran of the Utica, N.Y., Police
Department, and an expert in cybersecurity, computer crime investigation and
digital forensics. He is a nine-year member of the United States Secret Service
electronic crime task force, and co- founder of the Central New York Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force. Anthony received the Wallie Howard Jr.
Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In
addition, he holds a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Geneseo and a master’s degree
in economic crime management from Utica College, where he researched wireless
data network security.
Len Chinski, Director of Audit at NBT Bank. Len
oversees the Internal Audit function of NBT, which is responsible for assessing
the internal control environment and risk management activities of all key
areas of the organization. Also, Len has oversight responsibility for the Loan
Review function at NBT, which is responsible for monitoring the safety and
soundness of the Company’s assets through the performance of detailed
independent reviews of the Company’s lending portfolios. Prior to NBT, Len
worked for Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC, where
he served as Vice President and Fixed Income Capital Markets and Compliance Officer. Prior to that he was with M&T Bank for
over 15 years where he began as a Staff Auditor, and was promoted a number of
times including to the position of Administrative Vice President and Assistant
General Auditor. He also held a senior compliance role with
M&T Securities, Inc.
Len
earned his Bachelors of Science from Canisius College in Accounting (Cum
Laude). He is a Certified Internal Auditor,
Certified Fiduciary &
Investment Risk Specialist, and a Certified
Risk Management Assurance
Specialist.