Navigating the Public Sector Fraud Landscape: A Guide for Explorers

For Explorers, fighting fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) is an important priority. While they haven’t fully mastered their strategies, Explorers are:

• Using cross-agency collaboration and data sharing
• Moving from manual to automated fraud risk assessment
• Integrating new technologies

Explorers recognize that maintaining public trust hinges on transparent, data-driven operations. To elevate their fraud prevention efforts, they seek better tools, stronger governance and strategic partnerships to help them reach the next level of maturity.

Public sector leaders categorized as Explorers are transitioning from foundational fraud prevention efforts toward more sophisticated, AI-enabled practices. While they aren’t yet fully optimized like Innovators, Explorers are on the cusp of making a significant leap forward.

This report offers detailed insights into how fraud-fighting Explorers like you compared to the other maturity levels of Responders and Innovators, where they stand on key fraud prevention practices and what steps you can take to accelerate progress.

The data suggests that Explorers:

• Face rising threats from AI-powered fraud schemes: 74% have observed an increase in the last five years
• Are more likely than Responders to understand their agency’s AI roadmap: 83% are familiar with future plans

The insights in this report can help Explorers close the gap between aspiration and action - improving fraud detection rates, optimizing resources and increasing public confidence.