Dallas IIA August 2026 Webinar

Fraud Risk Management: In the Age of Deepfakes and Synthetic Data

For decades, seeing a signature or a PDF report was enough. Now, AI can manipulate entire datasets with fabricated numbers, challenging the very foundation of professional skepticism. Join Scott Madenburg for a 2-hour tactical training session with the Dallas IIA where we’ll move past visual guesswork and build a modern audit playbook. During the first hour, we’ll map out how fraudsters exploit manual overrides, system integrations, and procurement gaps to trigger unauthorized wire transfers. We will also put your instincts to the test with a live "Real or Synthetic?" audience challenge against artificial evidence.

Practical Audit Techniques & Execution

In the second hour, the session gets highly tactical with no-code forensic checks. You will learn how to use basic metadata validation and traditional tools like Benford’s Law to catch mathematical anomalies that human reviewers consistently miss. We'll also dive into data integrity techniques, including checking system audit trails, digital watermarks, and implementing "Zero Trust" verification protocols for executive requests. To round out the session, we will map these controls to the updated IIA Standards. This provides every level of your team, from seniors and managers executing tests in the field to CAEs and Directors briefing the Audit Committee, with a clear, actionable blueprint to update audit plans and refine fraud risk assessments. Stop guessing, and start verifying.