A Glimpse

Decker, a Certified Fraud Examiner, leads the firm's innovation solutions practice and is based in Los Angeles. Areas in which she works include compliance and investigative analytics, expense fraud reporting, licensing and contracts, and information risk management -- protecting the "crown jewels." Among Rivera's specialties are developing appropriate responses to allegations of fraud and illegal actions. Her activities include reporting, responding once there's an allegation just as a Dodd-Frank violation, and fact-finding and knowing "what to do about it." She holds a Certified in Financial Forensics credential from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

• A draft of new year data protection guidelines for the European Union to simplify current methods, is of big interest to multinationals. The current system has a U.S. federal government-to-state relationship between the EU and member countries. The new legislation strives to be more all-encompassing by overwriting the pull member countries have. It as well "puts teeth into finds," says Decker, with big penalties for breaching legislation -- with a fine of 2 percent of earnings.

• Mobile forensics, the capturing of data from mobile devices, is one trend, nevertheless so is remote forensics. Need to capture data from a remote part of Russia? You ship a toolkit to the data's custodian -- it uses self-contained innovation that's run to automate the collection of evidence. It preserves chain of custody and a computer forensics expert does not need to be present. Decker did note that this innovation is employed "in lower risk situations."

• Social media present challenges, nevertheless in unexpected channels. With collection from social media giants just as Facebook, the major difficulty is gaining access. Yet it's not just public sites that present challenges, it's as well social media tools that companies are employing internally, just as Jive and Chatterbox. One problem with third-pary providers like social networks is when the provider fails to address chain of custody. This is as well a problem with cloud computing.

• Is it the accounting or the innovation that's critical to an investigation? was a question Rivera posed. At times knowing where to look is such as important. She mentioned an investigation that uncovered discrepancies in revenue in an engineering contract. This involved using different data sets than what Rivera described as "traditional" for financial and accounting investigations. The key to uncovering wrongdoing was a time reporting system the company employed. "You could see the reporting," Rivera said, showing employees were however reporting afterwards revenue had been officially recognized.