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Combating Fraud in the Public Sector
This event has passed - 10 March 2006.
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SAS solutions can help you to detect and prevent
fraud.
As the public sector comes under increased pressure to manage budgets
more efficiently and transparently, fraud prevention and detection have
become critically important. Fraud is a global issue - affecting all organisations,
regardless of size, location or function. The Public Sector, like any
other, is not immune to the problem of fraud.
Fraud can attack the public sector from a number of different directions:
- Citizens ...
The need to be available to the whole of the population will, by necessity,
create opportunities for fraud and abuse - whether directly in such
areas as welfare fraud or indirectly through hacking online systems.
At the heart of combating citizen-based fraud is accurately knowing
who they are and what are their circumstances.
- Suppliers ...
Because of the size and complexity of public sector organisations, it
is occasionally possible for the supplier to abuse payment systems -
perhaps by 'inflating’ an invoice with extra items that were neither
ordered nor delivered.
- Employees ...
Employee fraud is often the most costly if it goes undetected long enough.
Employees are already inside your security perimeter - holding positions
of trust - some will abuse this trust and they know how to avoid your
internal processes designed to eliminate fraud.
SAS has been working with public sector organisations around the world
for over 25 years, and our capabilities in detecting and preventing fraud
has been demonstrated to significantly reduce the cost of fraud without
compromising the ethos of service that is at the heart of the public sector.
| Agenda |
| 08.00 |
Coffee, tea and registration |
| 09.00 |
Welcome & Introduction
Werner Deumens, Chief Operations Officer SAS Belgium & Luxembourg |
| 09.10 |
Strategies & Challenges of the Data Explosion
Professor Jan Vanthienen, KULeuven
Although the supply of data by business, government and individuals
is growing every day in the Belgian landscape, it seems to become
more difficult to find and integrate the relevant information and
insights for investigating and detecting fraud. And yet, new applications
in business intelligence, knowledge discovery, data mining and text
mining offer powerful opportunities to analyze these vast amounts
of data. |
| 09.50 |
Evidence-Based Policy-Making and Reducing Improper Payments
Peter
Dorrington, Principal Strategy Manager, SAS UK
As the Public Sector adapts to an increasingly complex world, and
to meeting the needs of individual citizens in a truly relevant
and differentiated way, it is also struggling with the burden of
mounting costs and a finite budget. In the USA ‘improper payments’,
including fraud and abuse, are thought to cost the economy at least
$45billion per year. In this presentation, Peter will review a ‘top
to bottom’ counter-fraud strategy and give illustrations and
examples about how a range of challenges were addressed.
Peter Dorrington is Principal Strategy Manager and Head of Fraud
Solutions at SAS UK and has more than 25 years experience in IT
and computing systems. His current role enables him to work with
a wide variety of clients and partners, with a particular focus
on the technologies for detecting and preventing fraud and money
laundering. Peter is also widely quoted on related issues such as
Identity Fraud, IT Security and the impact of crime/legislation
on businesses and the individual.
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| 10.30 |
break |
| 11.00 |
Fraud detection at LCM*
Régine Rubbrecht, Group Responsible Internal Audit, LCM
Thierry Van de Merckt, Data Mining expert for CSC
All reimbursements are subjected to statistically-based models
designed to automate classification into homogeneous groups consisting
of either tellers, members or healthcare providers. This generates
a graphic depicting outliers which can be further investigated for
possible fraudsters.
* (Landsbond der Christelijke Mutualiteiten
- Alliance Nationale des Mutualités Chrétiennes) |
| 11.45 |
Fraud Prevention at the European Commission, Anti-Fraud Office
(OLAF)
Andrew Pease, Consultant, SAS Belgium & Luxembourg
Stefan Knolle, National Expert, OLAF
The European Commission’s European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
uses SAS® Text Miner for Fraud Prevention and Detection. The
mission of OLAF is to protect the interests of the European Union,
to fight fraud, corruption and any other irregular activity, including
misconduct within the European institutions. |
| 12.15 |
Panel discussion and Conclusion
With Professor J. Vanthienen, Peter Dorrington, Régine Rubbrecht,
Stefan Knolle, Thierry Van de Merckt and Stany Boes (CSC) |
| 12.45 |
Sandwich Lunch |
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