Preventing Online Child Exploitation with Financial Intelligence: An Overview
Online child exploitation needs to stop.
The use of the internet, blockchain technology and virtual payments has evolved rapidly, putting some of our society's most vulnerable at risk.
As selling, exchanging, and producing child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) trends upwards, it is up to all of us to protect children from exploitation by criminals across the world.
Co-authored by Tiffany Polyak from ACAMS and Jonathan Dupont, this course will give you a better understanding of CSAM and the nexus of evolving technology that enables it. It’ll help you gain a comprehensive overview of cryptoassets and open-source intelligence techniques for enhanced investigations, and give you practical knowledge from case studies to stop online child exploitation.
Thank you to Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST Initiative) for supporting this initiative.
Preventing Online Child Exploitation with Financial Intelligence: An Overview Course Content
This course explores online child sexual exploitation (OCSE), including victim and offender profiles, enabling technologies, legislation, and emerging risks. It introduces cryptocurrency fundamentals and its role in OCSE, followed by open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques, blockchain analysis, and dark web investigations. You’ll learn how financial intelligence, AML/CFT programmes, and transaction monitoring help combat OCSE, supported by real-world case studies.
You’ll learn to
- Understand CSEM and online child sexual exploitation (OCSE)
- Explore how new and emerging technologies can potentially increase OCSE and how open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques can be used to enhance investigations
- Comprehend the basics of cryptoassets and their underlying technologies, and how they are often used for CSEM transactions
Key course topics
- Identify suspicious financial activity tied to CSEM commerce and the dark web marketplaces selling child abuse
- Implement guidance and forge partnerships to enhance investigations and better combat OCSE
Intended audience
- Analysts who want to learn how to prevent online child sexual exploitation
- Professionals who work in traditional financial institutions and law enforcement
- Professionals who work in Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs)
- Financial intelligence analysts, AML analysts, criminal investigators, open-source intelligence analysts, BSA officers, compliance officers and financial crime analysts
Course structure
- Online and self-paced
- Two hours of coursework
- 10-question final assessment
- Results available immediately
Pricing
- Access your self-paced online course
- 400 hours of training webinars live and on demand
- Practitioner toolkits and best practice guides
- Perspectives from 115,000+ global members
- Discounts on all ACAMS products