Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance Teams

Accounts payable, treasury, finance, audit and office staff who handle or approve payments, and managers responsible for finance controls. No security background is needed.

No. Several lessons come from Professor Messer's free Security+ SY0-701 series because they explain general security ideas well. The course itself is about fraud against finance teams and is not affiliated with CompTIA.

The controls apply in any country. India is covered in detail as the worked example. That includes the 1930 helpline and cybercrime.gov.in, the RBI's beneficiary name lookup and Positive Pay System, and GSTIN and PAN checks. It also covers the CERT-In Directions of 2022 and the DPDP Act 2023 with its 2025 Rules, most of whose duties apply from May 2027. It is not legal advice, so check current requirements with your advisers.

No. The exercises use a spreadsheet. You join a bank-change log to a payment register and match vendor and employee bank accounts.

About 5 hours of video lessons, notes and practice questions, plus about 8 hours if you do the optional project. You work at your own pace.

You review the payment controls of a polymer manufacturer in Shannon, Ireland, after a large bank-change near miss. You produce a payment fraud risk register, a bank-change verification procedure, a vendor-file change register with analytics, and a report to the CFO. A sample pack shows each document.

Yes. Every module, the notes, the project and the final assessment. The only paid item is the certificate, if you want it.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you pass the final assessment, with a number anyone can verify on our site.

The Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance Teams course has 9 modules. It opens with "The fraud that targets finance teams", goes through "Business email compromise, step by step", "Deepfakes and the Arup video call", "Scam messages, passwords and MFA" and "Audits, third parties and agreements" and ends with "Final Assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance Teams course: Explain business email compromise and recognise its forms; Verify vendor bank-detail changes independently; Detect invoice fraud and fictitious vendors with simple analytics. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance Teams course, software: None required. A spreadsheet (Excel or similar) for the analytics exercises and the project. Hardware: none. The course itself is free.

Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance Teams is rated beginner. Beginner. For accounts payable, treasury, finance, audit and office staff who handle payments or approve them. No security background is needed. It is written for accounts payable, finance and treasury teams, and takes about 5.2 hours at your own pace.

Skills from the Cyber Fraud and Security for Finance Teams course (for example: explain business email compromise and recognise its forms) are used in roles such as OT security analyst, security engineer, network engineer and compliance analyst, and in finance professional work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.