How to Protect Your Business From Next-Gen Payments Fraud

The impact of payment scams is therefore much bigger than most CFOs speculate, and the risks are much more prevalent than they might think. Today, the default posture among the C-suite ought to be: you will be targeted by increasingly sophisticated scams, so preventive action needs to become equally sophisticated.

So, what is the best strategy? Join WIRED’s Charlie Burton on 12th December, as he hosts a virtual briefing with Jenny Radcliffe, a.k.a. “The People Hacker”, a world expert on the human side of cybersecurity, and Robert Thorpe, Managing Director of Finance and Operations at Allegro, who has a special 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: 12th December
• Time: 15:00 GMT

Meet our experts

Jenny Radcliffe is a world renowned Social Engineer, hired to bypass security systems through a mixture of psychology, con-artistry, cunning, and guile. She has spent a lifetime talking her way into secure locations, protecting clients from scammers, and leading simulated criminal attacks on organizations of all sizes in order to help secure money, data, and information from malicious attacks. She has also been named as one of the top 30 female 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 Cyber multiple times.

Robert Thorpe is Managing Director at Allegro Funds, Australasia’s leading private equity funds manager specializing in corporate carve out, turnaround, and special situations investments. Robert has over 27 years of experience in the finance 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 the magazine’s Associate Editor 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

Eftsure is the global market leader in payment fraud prevention. Specifically designed for businesses, eftsure’s end-to-end solution safeguards nearly $24 billion in B2B payments each month. Their mission is to build a safer business community. With a large and continuously growing database of verified vendor details (the only one of its kind), they use multi-factor verification to give businesses greater knowledge and control over onboarding vendors, receiving invoices and making payments. In short, they ensure our customers never pay the wrong people.