Auditing IT Infrastructures for Compliance, 3rd Edition
by Robert Johnson, Marty Weiss, Michael G. Solomon
Red Flag Rules
The Red Flags Rule (RFR) was developed by the Federal Trade Commission with other agencies to establish a set of United States federal regulations that require financial firms and creditors to protect consumers from identity theft. The term red flag refers to having processes that look for suspicious indicator of identity theft and to “flag” those accounts for further review and verification of customer identity. These extra checks and supporting processes are referred to as the Red Flag Rules.
An RFR program must include process to identify the red flags of identity theft that may occur in opening and accessing an account. For example, if a customer has to provide some form of identification that does not match their physical ...
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