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Fraud Prevention

What is Fraud Prevention?

Controls and measures designed to deter and prevent fraudulent activities including financial fraud, identity fraud, and internal fraud.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as fraud prevention. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on fraud prevention

Requirements naming fraud prevention across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

The system detects rootkits, remote desktop tools, virtualisation and other programs able to circumvent location detection, following best practice to detect and block location data fraud (for example virtual machines, remote desktop sessions and apps that fak...

gli-33-gaming-laboratories-international-event-wagering-systems::2.7.2 · 2.7.2 Location Fraud Prevention →

The supervisory guidelines (major banks III-3-8-2(2) and the parallel guidelines for regional banks, crypto-asset exchanges, electronic payment instrument businesses and cooperative financial institutions), as amended with immediate effect on 27 February 2026,...

japan-fsa-cybersecurity-guidelines-for-financial-institutions::SG.IB · Internet banking: phishing-resistant MFA and fraud prevention (supervisory guidelines, 27 February 2026) →
CCPA/CPRA2 controls

Consumers may act through authorised agents. For requests to delete, correct or know, the business may ask the agent for the consumer's signed permission and may ask the consumer to verify identity or confirm the agent's authority, unless a power of attorney u...

ccpa-cpra::CCR 7063 · Accept requests from authorised agents →
ISO 37003:20252 controls

Prevention is the first line of the fraud control system: put in place, in proportion to the assessed fraud risks, the preventive measures of 8.2.2 to 8.2.10, aimed at cutting both the opportunity and the motive for fraud against or by the organization, and re...

iso-37003-2025::8.2.1 · General: preventing fraud →

Establish cybersecurity governance and policy structures appropriate to retail industry characteristics per the NRF Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Framework guidance and supporting NIST CSF alignment.

NRFCS-1 · Retail Cybersecurity Governance, Policy, and Regulatory Change Management →
LGPD1 control

Sensitive personal data (racial or ethnic origin, religious conviction, political opinion, union membership or membership of a religious, philosophical or political organisation, health or sex life, genetic or biometric data linked to a person) may be processe...

lgpd::Art.11 · Art. 11: Processing of sensitive personal data →

Questions people ask about fraud prevention

What is Fraud Prevention?
Controls and measures designed to deter and prevent fraudulent activities including financial fraud, identity fraud, and internal fraud.
Why is Fraud Prevention important for compliance?
Fraud Prevention is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding fraud prevention helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Fraud Prevention?
Fraud Prevention appears in the requirement text of GLI-33 - Gaming Laboratories International Event Wagering Systems, Japan FSA Cybersecurity Guidelines for Financial Institutions, CCPA/CPRA, ISO 37003:2025, NRF Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Framework (National Retail Federation). Across these standards we have identified 10 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Fraud Prevention?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how fraud prevention applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Fraud Prevention applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.