One person can change supplier data and authorise payments alone. Examine how to prevent an unauthorised change followed by payment.
Compare separation of duties and sample checks with continuous individual monitoring in terms of effect, effort and fairness. Follow a data change through to payment approval and add a deputy if the second approver is unavailable. Also specify who receives, assesses and, where needed, escalates concerns. A concern alone is not proof of misconduct.
Develop your protection and escalation procedure further for your own area. Real investigations and the legality of individual measures, including privacy and consultation requirements, require separate assessment.
What you will work on
You define insider risks for specified assets and roles and justify the threat assumptions you use.
You set prevention, reporting and escalation routes with decision rights for security, HR and compliance.
You review the risk of one person being able to change supplier data and approve payments.
Who it is for
Security and risk managers
HR managers
Compliance officers
Topics
Assets, roles and insider risk scenarios
Risk-based prevention: access, segregation of duties, awareness and controls
Reporting routes, confidentiality and fair treatment of concerns
Escalation, investigation boundaries and work with legal, HR and forensics
Monitoring limits, proportionality and local consultation requirements
Programme control: indicators, learning from cases and revision
Your result
Your insider-risk procedure covers report intake, separation of duties, sampling and information limits. Adapt it for your area.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of security, HR or compliance processes and access to approved role and policy information. A case study is available; participants need not disclose real suspected cases.
Format and approach
Planned: 5–6 hours of self-study, with templates, case work and self-checks.
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