Fraud and Litigation Support

Protect your organization

Fraud Investigations

Identifying fraud is only the first step. What follows are sensitive recovery activities that include conducting a comprehensive investigation, pre-suit considerations, the litigation itself. All of which must be managed precisely so a judgment or restitution award is ultimately collected.

Litigation Support

We provide litigation support and expert witness testimony for situations requiring a professional recognized by the court as having expert knowledge about evidence. We provide extensive experience in financial, accounting, tax, and regulatory issues.

Fraud Risk Assessment

An effective fraud prevention program begins with a holistic assessment that identifies and tests existing internal controls. The resulting report will identify, analyze, and evaluate risks, giving your organization’s controlling body the necessary information to update or develop internal controls.

Digital Forensics Services

Modern fraud investigations often required highly-specialized skill managing electronic devices and evidence trails. Our Forensic Services team has experience capturing, authenticating and analyzing data, evidence, or information from electronic devices.

Third-Party Vendor Kickbacks

Kickback schemes are one of the most common, and difficult to identify, forms of fraud. Because kickback schemes aren’t easily observed in an organization’s books and records, the procedures require an investigator who thoroughly understands the industry and notices discrete red flags indicating a bribery or kickback arrangement.

Employee Embezzlement Investigations

Identifying employee fraud and misuse is a sensitive matter that can be conducted by “following the money” to both collect evidence of the crime, identify leads in the investigation, and ultimately identify assets subject to forfeiture.

Improper Revenue and Expense Recognition

Premeditated misrepresentation, misstatement, or omission of financial statement data to misrepresent the financial strength of an organization is a common, difficult to trace, fraudulent activity requiring specialized investigative techniques.

Anti-Bribery and Corruption Investigations

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act, are examples of anti-bribery and corruption regulations related to uncovering fraudulent practices in domestic and overseas operations. Our Forensic Services team offers invaluable knowledge of these regulations that enables us to identify and resolve sensitive, complex regulatory issues.

Our promise to you

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Reliable guidance

Our Certified Fraud Examiners and risk management professionals have seen it all and will bring that experience to rooting out fraud in your organization.

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An ounce of prevention

Stop fraudulent intent in its tracks with a proactive policy that seeks out opportunity before it becomes reality.

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Support through every stage

Uncovering fraud may just be the first step to making it right. We’re with you all the way, including providing expert witness testimony, so you can achieve justice.

Consulting leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

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Environmental, Social, and Governance

Put sustainability within reach

ESG Training and Development
Program Assessment and Gap Analysis
Audit Readiness

Prepare for and navigate various ESG audits, including risk assessments and controls-based audits.

Green, Social, and Sustainable Bonds

Maximize the value and monitor the success of green, social, and sustainable bonds.

Due Diligence for M&A

Assess an organization’s impact, ESG program strength, and see how they are progressing toward their goals.

Reporting and Disclosures

Your ESG program doesn’t run on autopilot, but elements of your internal and external ESG reporting need to be consistent. We can help you navigate the inputs to arrive at quality deliverables.

Outsourcing and Staff Augmentation

We can provide you with outsourced assistance to help you design your ESG program, develop policies and procedures, and implement and monitor your program.

Risk Assessment and Mitigation

Meeting regulatory and reporting demands is a prerequisite for enterprise growth. We’ll work with you to align systems and controls with core business goals to facilitate reporting, compliance, and risk management.

Our promise to you

See the big picture

The way our organizations impact the world is complex and wide-spread. We’ll help you gain a birds-eye view so you can maximize your positive impact.

Prepare for regulatory demands

Regulatory and standard-setting bodies are increasing their attention on ESG matters. Take a proactive stance to meeting these demands and get a head-start on demonstrating value.

Deliver confidence

Investors, stakeholders, and M&A targets increasingly want to understand your organization is built for the future. Show them you understand impact with clear ESG reporting.

Consulting leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

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Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity and IT Risk Services to Protect Your Business 

Cybersecurity doesn’t have to be expensive or overwhelming. MGO helps growing businesses get started with established, affordable IT risk and control strategies that build protection — and trust — from day one. 

As digital transformation accelerates growth, it also exposes businesses to increasing cyber threats and compliance gaps across cloud, third-party, and internal systems. MGO’s Cybersecurity and IT Risk Advisory services are tailored to help your organization proactively identify vulnerabilities, strengthen security strategy and posture, and align with evolving regulatory demands.  

Whether you’re navigating new standards or regulations, SOX readiness or compliance, or simply aiming to mature your IT and security governance, our team brings practical experience and real-world insight to help you secure your environment — without slowing down innovation. 

Minimize risk to power performance

Assess Your Cyber Readiness

Take a proactive stance to reduce risk from evolving cyber threats. Our program development and assessment services identify hidden risks, evaluate your readiness, and lay the foundation for a stronger security posture. 

  • Cybersecurity Program Strategy and Risk Assessment: Evaluate exposure to internal vulnerabilities and external threats, and assess alignment with security program leading practices. Leveraging industry standards such as NIST CSF, build an actionable roadmap to achieve goals and close identified gaps across people, processes, and tech. 
  • Network and Cloud Visibility Assessment: Identify blind spots across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. 
  • Compliance and Framework Readiness (NIST 800-171, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2): Benchmark your cybersecurity program against industry frameworks and audit requirements, especially emerging regulations such as CMMC, NIS2, and DORA. 
  • AI Strategy: Leveraging NIST’s AI RMF, build out standards and policies for your organization’s use of artificial intelligence. 

  • Third-Party Risk Management Solutions: Build a program to identify, manage, and evaluate your suppliers and vendors (and their nth parties) on an ongoing basis.
Protect and Defend Against Active Threats

Strengthen your defenses with security tools and active threat detection techniques that test and validate your systems before attackers do. 

  • Vulnerability Management: Identify, prioritize, and resolve weaknesses across systems, networks, and applications. 
  • Technology Rationalization: Eliminate tool sprawl by aligning your tech stack with actual risk exposure and performance needs. 
  • Penetration Testing: Conduct simulated attacks to reveal real-world paths into your environment.

  • Ransomware Readiness Assessment: Gauge your preparedness to detect, contain, and recover from ransomware attacks. 
Be Ready to Respond

Establish processes and procedures to help you respond to and recover from cyber threats and incidents, and feed learnings back into your program. 

  • Incident Response Planning: Create and test structured plans to contain and recover from cybersecurity incidents efficiently and confidently. 
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Strategy: Design robust strategies to maintain operations and protect critical assets in the face of cyberattacks or unplanned outages. 
  • Security Awareness Training: Equip your team with practical knowledge to recognize and respond to everyday threats like phishing, social engineering, and insider risk. 

  • Refresh Policy and Procedures: Establish clear, actionable policies and controls that support compliance and operational effectiveness based on leading practices. 
Core IT Risk Advisory Services 

  • IT Governance and Risk Assessment: Comprehensive review of IT systems, internal controls, and organizational risk exposure. 

  • Security Architecture and Controls Review: Assess physical and digital security layers, from perimeter defenses to future-state technologies. 
  • Third-Party Risk Management: Evaluate vendor ecosystems for cybersecurity, compliance, and business continuity risks. 
  • HIPAA Compliance Services: Review security and privacy safeguards, and build a HIPAA-aligned compliance program. 
  • Cloud Security and Control Frameworks: Assess cloud-based systems against recognized frameworks to improve resilience and compliance. 
  • IT SOX Compliance Support: Validate and support your IT controls for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and audit readiness. 

  • Cybersecurity IT Audit: Conduct independent audits to assess security posture, uncover gaps, and support regulatory alignment. 

Managed risk is your reward

Cybersecurity Breach Roadmap

Today’s interconnected digital world brings vulnerability to the increased risk of cyber fraud, theft, and abuse. These cyberattacks are inevitable — it’s not a matter of if your organization is attacked, but when.

Protect your organization from cyber threats

This cybersecurity breach road map and checklist is designed to give you the essential steps necessary to mitigate an attack within the first 24-hours — so you stay compliant and ensure you’re back to business as quickly as possible after an attack.

Our promise to you

Top-to-bottom protection

Safeguarding sensitive data and IP must be a top priority for success today and long into the future.

Turn compliance into opportunity

Evolving regulatory requirements provide an opportunity to build an organization ready for the future.

Emerging threats mitigated

Cybersecurity is a game of “whack-a-mole” but you can enjoy peace of mind with dedicated support addressing the latest threats.

CMMC Readiness and Compliance Support 

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is now part of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) formal regulatory framework. 

  • The CMMC Program Rule (32 CFR Part 170) took effect in December 2024, establishing the structure for cybersecurity assessments. 

Consulting leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

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