Paper for Committee Meeting Ljubljana, Slovenia 17-18 May 2001

 

Progress Report on Research Project on Detection and Prevention of IT Related Fraud

Background

1. This note updates progress on the Committee’s research project into IT related fraud. The project is led by the UK, with support from Canada, France and Poland.
   
   
2. The main components of the project are:

• An introduction to the topic;
  
  
• A review of existing material covering the scale and nature of the problem, fraud detection and prevention;
  
  
• A survey of SAIs to gather material on experiences, approaches and good practice;
  
  
• Good practice guidance;
  
  
• New training material for updated courseware or advanced training;
  
  
• A glossary of terms and a bibliography.
  

Progress

3. The two first stages of the work – introduction and a review of existing material is completed and an initial draft, together with the draft survey questionnaire was circulated to SAIs supporting the project.
   
   
4. The agreed questionnaire was issued to all (170) SAIs in February, with responses due by the end of March. At the time of writing (end April) responses had been received, with the promise of a few others. We have also received four helpful letters of apology for not being able to provide detailed information. These will be included in the data as "information not available" as it is vital that all responses are included in the analysis.
   
   
5. We plan to encourage further responses shortly, by issuing a brief progress report based on those received so far. It is most important that those SAIs with little information, or "don’t know" replies contribute this information because it add to the overall picture for the final report.
   
   

Timetable for future work

6. Given that getting responses is taking a little longer the expected, we have adjusted the planned timetable slightly. We now plan to:

• Collate the results and draw conclusions by end July 2001;
  
  
• Draft good practice guidance and issue draft for comment, prepare an glossary and bibliography by end August 2001;
  
  
• Circulate the final report by end October 2001;
  
  
• Devise an approach for an advanced training module or expert seminar by end December 2001
  
  
• 1^st training course, or expert seminar in 2002.
  
  

Recommendation

7. The Committee is invited to note progress and the timetable for future work. Any comments on this project, at any stage, would be most welcome.

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