BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ISACA Chennai Chapter - ECPv4.9.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ISACA Chennai Chapter X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://isaca-chennai.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for ISACA Chennai Chapter BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:"Asia/Kolkata" BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0530 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20260101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID="Asia/Kolkata":20260912T170000 DTEND;TZID="Asia/Kolkata":20260912T190000 DTSTAMP:20260910T113432 CREATED:20260910T042722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T042722Z UID:50422-1789232400-1789239600@isaca-chennai.org SUMMARY:Sep 2026 PDM - The Investigative Gap: Cybersecurity\, AI and the Changing Fight Against Financial Crime DESCRIPTION:\nProgram Details:  \nDate:   Saturday\, Sep 12\, 2026\nMode: Virtual\nCPE:    2 hours \nAgenda: \n17:00 – 17:15: Virtual Networking\n17:15 – 17:18: Welcome by ISACA Chennai Chapter Director Programs\n17:18 – 17:30: Chapter Updates & Speaker Introduction\n17:30 – 18:50: Session on “The Investigative Gap: Cybersecurity\, AI and the Changing Fight Against Financial Crime” by Mr. Keith Bulfin\n18:50 – 19:00: Questions and Closure comments \n\nSynopsis: \nFinancial institutions today have more technology\, cybersecurity capability\, compliance systems\, audit controls and risk-management resources than at any previous point. \nYet enormous volumes of criminal funds continue to penetrate the global financial system. \nInternational estimates have long placed the amount of money laundered globally at roughly 2–5% of global GDP annually. At the same time\, regulators and law-enforcement agencies continue to warn that organised criminal groups are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of technology. \nThis creates an important question: \nWhat are we missing? \nThe lecture will explore what is described as the Investigative Gap — the difference between identifying technical indicators\, alerts\, transactions and anomalies\, and understanding what those indicators actually mean within a criminal investigation. \nCybersecurity professionals are exceptionally skilled at identifying systems\, vulnerabilities\, digital activity and technical relationships. Audit\, compliance and risk professionals are similarly skilled at identifying control failures and anomalies. \nBut criminals do not operate according to our organizational structures. \nThey adapt. \nThey exploit technology\, legitimate businesses\, professional advisers\, financial institutions\, jurisdictions and human behaviour simultaneously. \nArtificial intelligence is now accelerating another fundamental change. Financial institutions will increasingly automate elements of compliance\, monitoring\, cybersecurity\, audit and risk analysis that previously required significant numbers of people. \nThat does not necessarily diminish the value of skilled professionals. It changes where their greatest value will lie. \nThe professional who can combine cybersecurity or audit expertise with investigative judgement becomes considerably more valuable. \nCan you look beyond an alert? \nCan you recognise how apparently unrelated information connects? \nCan you determine what the criminal is likely to do next? \nCan you distinguish between a technical anomaly and evidence of a wider criminal network? \nAnd can you turn data into an investigative decision? \nThe lecture will use real-world investigative experience and case-based examples to demonstrate the difference between detecting information and investigating its meaning. \nThe central proposition is simple: \nTechnology can identify the signal. Human investigative judgement must understand the story behind it. \nThe next generation of specialists will therefore not necessarily be cybersecurity professionals competing with investigators\, or investigators competing with AI. \nThey will be professionals capable of combining technology\, cybersecurity\, audit and investigative intelligence. \nThose individuals may become some of the most valuable financial-crime specialists in the market. \nAbout the speaker:\n \n \n\nKeith William Bulfin\nFinancial Crime Investigator | Author | Educator | Founder\, Global Financial Intelligence Academy \nKeith William Bulfin is an international financial crime investigator\, author and educator whose career has involved complex investigations into money laundering\, organised crime and illicit financial networks across the United States\, Europe\, Latin America\, the Middle East and other international jurisdictions. \nHis investigative work has included cooperation with major international law-enforcement agencies\, including work associated with the U.S. Department of Justice\, DEA and FBI\, and extensive exposure to the methods used by organised criminal networks to move and conceal money through the legitimate financial system. \nKeith is the author of Undercover\, which recounts his extraordinary experiences inside the world of international organised crime and financial investigation. His work and experiences have been featured by major international media\, including 60 Minutes\, CNN\, BBC\, ABC and other television and documentary programs around the world. \nAcademically\, Keith holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics\, a Master of Business Law and a Master of Research\, with his research examining money laundering within the Australian banking system. \nHe is the founder of the Global Financial Intelligence Academy\, an international education initiative focused on developing the next generation of financial intelligence professionals and investigators. His approach centres on real-world case investigations and teaching professionals and students to move beyond compliance alerts and data—to understand the people\, relationships\, behaviour and money behind financial crime. \nThrough his FOLLOW THE MONEY investigative series\, Keith is building a global community bringing together professionals and students from banking\, AML\, compliance\, audit\, risk\, cybercrime\, law enforcement and financial intelligence. \nHis central message is simple: the future belongs to people who can think like investigators \n  \n URL:https://isaca-chennai.org/events/sep2026pdm/ LOCATION:Virtual Event\, India CATEGORIES:PDM ORGANIZER;CN="ISACA%20Chennai%20Chapter":MAILTO:officemanager@isaca-chennai.org / hon.secretary@isaca-chennai.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR