CPP Security Principles & Practices Test

What are the three measures categories most effectively mixed to achieve “defense in depth?”

A. Technical, manpower, procedural

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B. High security, moderate security, and convenience

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C. Insider, outsider, collusion

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D. Physical, procedural, and electronic

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Often overlooked as asset protection tools, _______________are the least expensive countermeasures one can employ.

A. Good management practices

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B. Procedural controls

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C. Highly aware employees

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D. Access controls

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Which of the following is one of the most cost effective assets protection tools?

Technology

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Manpower

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Training and awareness

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Information technology

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Which of the following is NOT one of the three tools of a strategically managed assets protection program?

A. Evaluation

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B. Administration

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C. Planning

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D. Management

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Which of the following is a set of criteria, guidelines, and best practices that can be used to enhance the quality and reliability of products, services, or processes?

policy

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standard

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protocol

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procedure

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Which one of the following works much better when responders can communicate with each other and when their equipment works with the equipment used by other responders?

Risk assessment

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Testing methods and protocols

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Standards

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Disaster response

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ISO brings together stakeholders from the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. It belongs to the following organization

private

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public

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welfare

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non Government

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Which of the following addresses products, processes, and other issues and serves as a central point where standards bodies from around the world?

ASIS

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ISO

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ANSI

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NFPA

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Which standards often becomes recognized as industry best practices and de facto market requirements?

SPC standards

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ASIS standards

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DIGO standards

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ISO standards

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In the United States, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) was formed in 1916 to serve as a clearinghouse for the following

Standards Developing Organizations (SDO)

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International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

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ASIS

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National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

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The ANSI standards development process is deliberately decentralized and provides a strong voice to:

Standards users

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Standards bodies

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Private sector

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Standards users and individual stakeholders

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In the security arena, protecting of assets defines _____________________

protecting vehicles, finance, and information

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protecting nature, property, and inventory

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protecting people, property, and information

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protecting facilities, finance, and equipment

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The ASIS International 2006 General Risk Security Guideline defines “Risk” as: __________________________________________

A. the surety of loss resulting from a threat, security incident, or event.

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B. the prevention from a threat, security incident, or event.

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C. the resolution of loss from a threat, security incident, or event.

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D. the possibility of loss resulting from a threat, security incident, or event.

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Which of the following five avenues address risk to assets?

A. risk founding, risk transfer, risk spreading, risk continuation, and risk acceptance

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B. risk avoidance, risk transfer, risk spreading, risk reduction, and risk acceptance

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C. risk avoidance, risk transfer, risk elimination., risk reduction, and risk acceptance

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D. risk avoidance, risk transfer, risk spreading, risk reduction, and risk suppressed

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Organizations need to find the right balance between ____________and ___________ for assets protection.

A. a security approach and a legal approach

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B. a risk approach and a fundamental approach

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C. a security distancing and a legal distancing

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D. a risk distancing and a legal distancing

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What are the objectives in protecting assets?

A. deter, deny, deduct, delay, destroy

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B. deter, declare, detect, delay, destroy

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C. deter, deny, detect, delay, destroy

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D. deter, deny, divert, delay, destroy

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What will influence industry in assets protection?

A. intelligence, circumstance, and experience

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B. Inelegance, environment, and experience

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C. culture, environment, and evaluation

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D. culture, environment, and issues

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Assets protection in telecommunications sector is greatly affected by?

A. public relations

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B. business regulations

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C. organizational regulations

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D. government regulation

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What are the important tools in crime prevention programs?

Planning, management, and evaluation

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Planning, people, and evaluation

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Planning, management, and execution

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Planning, management, and evolution

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The following standards are used to help an organization meet its goals, whether in terms of quality, environmental concerns, safety, security, preparedness, or continuity

Security Management

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ANSI standards

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Management systems standards

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ISO standards

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What does enable the organization to measure its progress and outcomes?

Including more participants

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Establishing benchmarks.

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Protecting the organization’s reputation or brand

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Providing problem-solving and decision-making tools.

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Which of the following is a practical management systems standard that deals with organizational resilience?

ASIS Standards

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Management System Standards

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Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness and Continuity Management Systems

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ANSI Standards

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______________ is designed as a support tool for security professionals and others with similar responsibilities

A. security management

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B. protection of law

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C. standards in security

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D. protection of assets

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Which of the following needs to find the right balance between a security approach and a “legal” approach?

Legal adviser

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Risk analyst

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Security management

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Organizations

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Protecting competitive and proprietary information comes under the following

Network and computer security

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Information security

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Fraud prevention

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Physical security

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What must always be considered in the development of security strategies?

A. technology

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B. company protocols

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C. risk factors

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D. human factors

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What might involve implementing the program, conducting inspections, reviewing audit reports?

Planning

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Management

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Evaluation

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All of the above

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Which of the following has been involved in criminology to develop better crime prevention strategies?

Psychology

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Behavioral science

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Crime science

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Incident management

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According to senior management, what is the primary factor to determine the size or existence of the asset protection program?

Data Capture

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Cost effectiveness

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Data analysis and Display

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Systematic Incident reporting

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To senior management, cost-effectiveness is the primary factor in determining the size or existence of the asset protection program. What are the elements of cost-effectiveness?

cost avoidance & expense ratios

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return on investments & security metrics

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cost avoidance & security metrics

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security metrics & cost avoidance

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Which of the following is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or compare the efficiency of several different investments?

Rate of return

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Return of equity

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Return on investment

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None of the above

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When processing the budget, which of the following are legitimate and necessary objectives of an asset protection program?

Preventing crime

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Closing investigations

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Maintaining order

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All of the above

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Which of the following can be used as a blueprint for developing security objectives?

STEP

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WAECUP

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SWOT

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AMC

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Which of the following strategy is useful for Security managers to identify acceptable asset protection?

Sustainable, Technology, Education, Project

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Standardized Tactical Entry Point

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Standard for The Exchange of Product

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Social, Technological, Environmental, Political,

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Which of the following is of paramount importance to security management, and the easier it is to create security reports, the less staff will resist reporting incidents?

Collecting Information

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Storing Information

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Sharing information

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Manipulating information

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What does an Insurance company require before making a payment?

proof of asset

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proof of loss

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proof of profit

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proof of person

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More than food and cash, what does an employee steal?

Information

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Data

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Goods

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Time

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In the industry studies, the researchers found that employee theft exhibits a___________ that is a small number of employees take large amounts of property.

unimodal distribution

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bimodal distribution

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trimodal distribution

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none of these

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Which of the following is the large-scale theft that involves the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it is entrusted?

Fraudulent

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Embezzlement

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Defalcation

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Misrepresentation

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According to Cressy, three elements must be present before a fraud or similar crime can take place. Which of the following is incorrect?

The perception of a non-shareable problem

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Can hurt employee morale

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An opportunity for a trust violation

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A series of rationalizations that allow the individual to justify his or her behavior as appropriate for the situation

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Which of the following theory states that criminal behavior is most often correlated with an individual’s association with a criminal environment?

Hollinger theory

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Clark theory

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Donald Cressey’s theory

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Sutherland’s theory

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Which of the following theory defines the problem as a violation of a position of financial trust?

Hollinger theory

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Clark theory

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Donald Cressey's theory

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Sutherland's theory

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Which of the following is the predominant factor for every fraud?

Financial pressure

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Opportunity to commit fraud

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A means of justifying the fraud as appropriate

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Greed

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In elements of fraud, the opportunity for fraud is generally created through the absence or weakness of the following

Staff

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Security

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External controls

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Internal controls

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In elements of fraud, which kind of red flag does “position of trust” represent?

Employee Situational Red Flags

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Employee Opportunity Red Flags

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Organization Situational Red Flags

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Organization Opportunity Red Flags

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The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 , was popularly known as:

Dodd-Frank act

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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Consumers act

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Organization act

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“Frequent audits and security reviews of high-value inventory and operations “, are components of the following

Investigation

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Incident Reporting

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Prevention Programs

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Asset programs

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During the investigation, the investigator may also need the assistance of the following one to conduct a fraud audit so that the financial transaction process can be reconstructed to determine how the theft occurred.

investigation specialist

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auditing specialist

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security specialist

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financial specialist

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When developing prevention strategies in the workplace, a complete model for dealing with theft and fraud is based on strong collaboration among the following

staff

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key stakeholders

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stakeholders and clients

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staff and key stakeholders

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