Economic security as a mechanism for increasing business efficiency - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, date: December 3, 2023.

Building an enterprise security system
• Risks, dangers and threats to the enterprise's activities. Comprehensive assessment of the security status of the enterprise. The concepts of “threat” and “risk” from the point of view of the security of a non-state enterprise. General classification of security threats to non-state enterprises. The main threats to the security of a non-state enterprise. Basic ways to identify threats. Algorithm for conducting a comprehensive assessment of the security status of an enterprise. Criteria for evaluation. Drawing conclusions about the current level of security of the enterprise and its needs for KSOS.

• Development of the concept of an integrated security system (ICSS) for the enterprise. Modern regulatory framework for the functioning of the enterprise's KSOB. Main principles of business security. A systematic approach to effectively ensuring business security. Algorithm for developing a concept for ensuring enterprise security. Algorithm for developing a comprehensive enterprise security system. Basic regulatory and legal acts for the creation and operation of the enterprise's KSOB.
• The main elements of the enterprise's KSOB. The structure of relationships, principles of creation and operation, main tasks and ensuring the viability of the enterprise’s KSOB. Functional model of a typical enterprise security system. The main tasks facing the structural elements of a standard enterprise security system. Basic principles for creating structural elements of a standard enterprise security system. Basic principles of the viability and effectiveness of a typical enterprise security system.
• Operating modes of the enterprise's KSOS. Reasons and principles of regime changes. Basic operating modes of the KSOB. Operating mode maps. The main reasons for changing the current operating mode of the KSOB.
• Operation of the enterprise in extreme conditions. “Crisis plans”: development, implementation and testing at the enterprise. The main tasks facing the security system in extreme operating conditions of the enterprise. Contents of the package, its development, admission conditions, basic measures for introducing a security system into the current work. Ways to prepare employees for effective actions within the framework of the implementation of the crisis plan.
• Procedure for conducting a security audit. Types of audits of the enterprise security system and their tasks Algorithm for conducting a comprehensive audit of the enterprise security system.
• Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of the KSOB activities. Main evaluation criteria. Determining the level of professional efficiency of the enterprise's CSOB. Economic efficiency of KSOB activities.
​Collection and analysis of information when assessing the reliability of counterparties
• External threats to enterprise security. Modern methods of unfair competition and ways to counter them. A general definition of the concepts “threat” and “external threat” from the point of view of enterprise security. The main external threats to enterprise security. Modern methods of unfair competition. The main ways to counteract unfair competition methods.
• Determining the possibility of negative consequences and their neutralization. Main types of negative consequences. Basic methods of neutralizing negative consequences.
• Business intelligence as a tool for achieving competitive advantage. Regulatory and legal framework for functioning. Sources of information when conducting business intelligence. "Business Intelligence" and "Competitive Advantage". The main goals and objectives of business intelligence. Business intelligence as a tool for competitive advantage. Regulatory and legal framework for functioning. Sources and methods of obtaining information when conducting business intelligence.
• The place of business intelligence in a comprehensive enterprise security system. Technical means of conducting business intelligence. Functional model of a typical security system. Technical means of conducting business intelligence.
• “Competitive wars”: strategy and tactics for survival in the market. Commercial espionage in modern conditions: subjects of conduct, methods and techniques of access to closed sources of information. Methods for identifying and localizing consequences. "Competitive wars", "strategy" and "tactics". Strategy and tactics for survival in the market, from the point of view of the security system. “Espionage” and “commercial espionage” Subjects of commercial espionage. The main ways to access closed sources of information. Basic methods for detecting acts of commercial espionage. Basic methods of localizing commercial espionage attacks.

Corporate fraud. Internal audits and investigations
• Protecting the company from corporate fraud.
• Types of corporate fraud. Fraud triangle concept. The most typical scenarios of corporate fraud by employees. Signs of corporate fraud on the part of employees. Scenarios of corporate fraud by executives.
• Qualifying signs of fraud. Direct and indirect signs of corporate fraud. Signs of corporate fraud identified based on the analysis of relations with business partners within the framework of civil law relations.
• Signs of corporate fraud identified based on analysis of employee behavior. The concept of fraud symptoms in relation to human factors. Psychological techniques used to calculate fraudulent schemes. Building relationships between employees. Security services and personnel to detect and suppress corporate fraud.
• Indirect signs of corporate fraud associated with weaknesses in internal control (lack of separation of duties, lack of physical security, lack of independent checks, lack of appropriate authority, lack of relevant documents and records, etc.).
• Protection of the company's economic interests from fraudulent transactions. General action plan to combat fraud (prevention, detection, investigation). Identification of positions in the company with fraudulent risks. Key ways to eliminate corporate fraud opportunities.
• Organizational, personnel and control measures to prevent corporate fraud. The relationship between the company's security service and government investigative and law enforcement agencies in connection with initiation of criminal cases for acts classified under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud).
• Procedures for conducting internal audits and financial investigations.
• What is an internal audit and in what cases is it carried out. Reasons for carrying it out. Drawing up an inspection matrix.
• Features of conducting internal audits on the most typical illegal actions of company employees. The procedure for interaction between divisions of the enterprise in the process of conducting an internal audit. Procedural norms that must be followed during its implementation.
• Use of a polygraph (lie detector) when conducting internal corporate investigations (inspections). Contact or non-contact polygraph, which is better? Legal and organizational side of the issue. Is it possible to fool a polygraph?
• Documentation of internal audit results. The ability to use the results as evidence of the employee’s guilt. Formation and procedures for storing nomenclature files with inspection results.
• Financial investigations in the company's contractual work. What is Forensic accounting? Audit of regulations for the implementation of civil legal relations. Analysis of instructions for contract work.
• Analysis of decision-making procedures in contract work. Methods for calculating signs of affiliation of an organization’s employees with companies that are parties to contracts.
• Collection and analysis of information on the company's counterparties for the presence of economic risks. Identification of dubious counterparties, non-standard and economically unjustified business and financial transactions. Tax risks. Identification of abuses during bidding and competitions.
• Documentary analysis of a company's civil law relations from the perspective of calculating signs of corporate fraud. Analysis of financial documents from the perspective of empirical laws (Benford's law). Signs of document forgery.
• Analysis of the procurement system and price reality. Unscheduled inspections (audits) of inventory and company property.
• Anti-corruption examination of contracts. Analysis of contracts concluded by the company from the perspective of economic risks, as well as economic feasibility.
• Checks of company employees holding positions with corruption (fraud) risks. Analysis of the powers and performance of an employee in the company. Conversations and interviews.
• International experience and corporate standards for protecting companies from financial crimes. International anti-fraud acts (UK Bribery Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act).