The AP Fraud Prevention Maturity Model

Fraudsters are evolving faster than most accounts payable departments.  AI-generated emails.  Sophisticated vendor impersonation schemes. Phony bank account change requests.  Credential compromise. Social engineering attacks designed specifically to exploit manual AP processes.

And while the threats are becoming more advanced, many AP teams are still relying on outdated controls, inconsistent validation processes, spreadsheets, email approvals, and manual vendor management practices that simply weren’t designed for today’s risk environment.

The gap between organizations with modern fraud prevention strategies and those without is widening quickly.  The question is: Where does your AP department stand?

Join us for this webinar as we introduce the AP Fraud Prevention Maturity Model – a four-stage framework designed to help AP leaders assess their current controls, identify vulnerabilities, and understand what it takes to move toward a more secure, defensible, and fraud-resilient operation. 

Built around the pillars of Verify • Validate • Control • Monitor, we’ll walk through the progression from reactive, manual processes to proactive, continuously monitored fraud prevention strategies.

What you’ll learn: 

• The four stages of AP fraud prevention maturity and where your organization fits today
• Why manual vendor onboarding and bank account change processes create major risk
• The difference between verifying supplier information and truly validating it
• How leading AP teams use stronger controls and continuous monitoring to stay ahead of evolving threats
• Practical steps to move from reactive fraud response to proactive, audit-ready fraud prevention

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 30 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Phil Binkow
CEO, Financial Operations Networks

Phil Binkow is CEO of Financial Operations Networks, developer of the InvoiceInfo and VendorInfo vendor portals. In 2002, FON founded The Accounts Payable Network, the leading training, certification and best-practice resource for individuals with management responsibility for accounts payable operations. Prior to starting Financial Operations Networks, Phil was CEO of PayTECH, one of the world’s largest invoice processing and spend analysis Software-as-a-Service companies.