SOCEX ‘15’ – Conference 18th/19th March 2015
The new threats from cyber enabled fraud
Commissioner Adrian Leppard QPM
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Key Messages
Threat from Fraud & Cyber
£52bn
£9.9bn
230,000
60%
40-70%
80%
Cost of fraud to UK economy (NFA, 2013)
Amount of fraud perpetrated by OCGs (Home Office SOC Strategy, 2013)
Amount of cyber crime that is NOT reported to police
Reports of crimes into Action Fraud from victims (NFIB 2013/14)
Amount Fraud reports are cyber-enabled(NFIB 2013/14)
Increase in reports of fraud over 5 years to 2013 (Office of National Statistics Crime Survey)
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Scale of the Threat
Capacity and capability at local, regional & National levels (volume + skills)
Technological- Pace of growth Society/Business/Crime ‘v’ policing capability
International- Enforcement jurisdiction and the ‘Internet’
Control- Industry ‘v’ Government
Legislation and Police powers
Challenges and Limitations
Government Response
National reporting & investigation (Action Fraud/NFIB)
Cyber Strategy/Organised Crime Strategy
Target hardening and prevention
(CPNI/CERT/CISP/CoLP and Alerts/Cyber Security)
Pursuing offenders NCA/NCCU/CoLP(Fraud/Cyber/Upstream)
International – Europol – Interpol (NCA)
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Action Fraud- Current Stats
Changing the Mindset of Response-Enforcement v’s Prevention
• Industry hosts vulnerability
• Industry standards on information security
• Internet Global and unregulated / controlled
• No single point of focus- limited enforcement potential
NFIB Disruptions 2013/14
50,000
Telephones disrupted
Preventing £45m
1,100
Websites disrupted
Preventing £11m
30,000
Bank Accounts disrupted
Preventing £250m
Total of 80,000+ disruptions resulting in prevention of £300m+
New Strategies
4 Ps- using the most effective mix of ‘pursue’, ‘protect’, ‘prevent’, ‘prepare’
3 Levels- addressing economic crime at local, regional and
national levels
2 Strands- tackling both serious and organised
AND volume crime
1 Outcome
Reducing the Impact of Fraud
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New Strategies
An enhanced threat picture
Empowerment of individuals
and organisations to
protect themselves
Designed in fraud
protection
Engagement of the
volunteering community
Creating SOC
dialogue locally
Focus on victims and prevention
Quantifying the SOC risk
(beyond reported
crime)
Partnerships
- Force
- Region (ROCUs)
- NCA +
CoLP - NLF
Partnerships
- Multi agency
- Industry
Maximising Impact & Service(SOC)
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