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, but the course is about fraud against finance teams and is not affiliated with CompTIA.

Yes. It covers the 1930 helpline and cybercrime.gov.in, the RBI's beneficiary name lookup and Positive Pay System, GSTIN and PAN checks, 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; check current requirements with your advisers.

No. The exercises use a spreadsheet: joining a bank-change log to a payment register and matching 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: a payment fraud risk register, a bank-change verification procedure, a vendor master 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.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹499 including GST for this beginner course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.