Module 1: Why Finance, HR, and Executives Are Prime Targets
This module explains why these functions are disproportionately targeted by attackers. Authority, urgency, and access to money or sensitive records make their workflows especially attractive for fraud.
Module 2: Social Engineering Tactics Used Against High-Trust Roles
This module explains urgency, authority pressure, secrecy, pretexting, and manipulation of normal business routines. Strong attacks often look plausible because they are tailored to real roles and responsibilities.
Module 3: Business Email Compromise and Wire-Fraud Patterns
This module covers BEC schemes targeting money movement and account changes, including fake vendor updates, urgent wire requests, payroll diversion, and executive impersonation. Learners identify process-level red flags before a fraudulent transfer or record change occurs.
Module 4: Executive Impersonation, HR Fraud, and Deepfake-Enabled Requests
This module covers AI-generated voice or video deepfakes layered on top of classic executive and HR impersonation. Familiar names, recognizable voices, and convincing video are not sufficient proof of authenticity.
Module 5: Out-of-Band Verification Procedures That Must Happen Every Time
This operational core module teaches a strict, repeatable verification process for wires, payroll or benefits changes, tax forms, new vendors, account updates, and sensitive approvals.
Module 6: Approval Workflows, Separation of Duties, and Exception Handling
This module teaches that fraud prevention depends on workflow design as well as individual vigilance. It reinforces approval chains, separation of duties, exception management, and documentation practices that make risky requests easier to stop.
Module 7: Reporting Suspicious Requests and Potential Fraud Immediately
This module teaches what to do after receiving a suspicious request or suspecting that action was already taken. It emphasizes speed, escalation, evidence preservation, and appropriate coordination with finance, IT, HR, legal, or leadership.
Module 8: Final Review, Scenario Check, and Employee Commitments
This final module reinforces role-specific fraud-prevention behaviors and ties them to annual compliance documentation. It supports LMS tracking and provides a defensible record that high-risk teams were trained on verification, escalation, and payment-control expectations.