The impact of payment fraud is therefore far greater than most CFOs speculate, and the risks are far more widespread than they might think. Today, the default position in the C-suite should be: you will be targeted by increasingly sophisticated scams, so preventive actions must become equally sophisticated.

So what is the best strategy? Join WIRED’s Charlie Burton on December 12 as he hosts a virtual briefing with Jenny Radcliffe, aka “The People Hacker,” a world expert on the human side of cybersecurity, and Robert Thorpe, Managing Director of Finance and Operations at Allegro, which has a particular interest in the operational impact of fraud. Discover the state-of-the-art techniques scammers can use to gain your trust; the ongoing and often underestimated impact of payment fraud on businesses; and what you can do about it.

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• Date: December 12
• Time: 15:00 GMT

Meet our experts

Jenny Radcliffe is a world-renowned social engineer employed to bypass security systems through a mixture of psychology, con-artism, trickery and cunning. She has spent a lifetime speaking in secure locations, protecting clients from scammers, and leading mock criminal attacks on organizations of all sizes to help secure money, data and information from malicious attacks. She was also named as one of the Top 30 Women Cyber ​​Security Leaders in 2022 by SC Magazine, one of the Top 25 Women in Cyber ​​by IT Security Guru and as a Top 50 Women of Influence in the cyber domain several times.

Robert Thorpe is Managing Director at Allegro Funds, Australasia’s leading private equity fund manager specializing in corporate carve out, turnaround and special situations investments. Robert has over 27 years of experience in the financial industry, focused on infrastructure and private equity funds. He was previously a director of the Macquarie Group.

Charlie Burton is WIRED Consulting’s Head of Editorial Content and specializes in how technology is transforming business. Charlie began his career at WIRED in 2008 as part of the founding editorial team of WIRED UK. He became associate editor of the magazine before spending a decade as senior editor and technology columnist at GQ. He returned to WIRED in 2022 to oversee editorial content for WIRED’s consulting division.

About our sponsor

Efsure is the global market leader in payment fraud prevention. Designed specifically for business, eftsure’s end-to-end solution handles nearly $24 billion in B2B payments every month. Their mission is to build a safer business community. With a large and ever-growing database of verified supplier details (the only one of its kind), they use multi-factor verification to give businesses greater insight and control over supplier onboarding, invoicing and payment. In short, it ensures that our customers never pay the wrong people.