Fraud & Identity Management
By: Ken Pruett The use of Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) or out of wallet questions continues to grow. For many companies, this solution is...
Conducting a validation on historical data is a good way to evaluate fraud models; however, fraud best practices dictate that a proper validation uses...
In a previous blog, we shared ideas for expanding the “gain” to create a successful ROI to adopt new fraud best practices to improve. ...
By definition, “Return on Investment” is simple: (The gain from an investment – The cost of the investment) _______________________________________________ The cost of the investment...
By: Heather Grover In my previous entry, I covered how fraud prevention affected the operational side of new DDA account opening. To give a...
By: Heather Grover In past client and industry talks, I’ve discussed the increasing importance of retail branches to the growth strategy of the bank....
The definition of account management authentication is: Keep your customers happy, but don’t lose sight of fraud risks and effective tools to combat those...
–by Andrew Gulledge Intelligent use of features Question ordering: You want some degree of randomization in the questions that are included for each session....
Account management fraud risks: I “think” I know who I’m dealing with… Risk of fraudulent account activity does not cease once an application has been...
–by Andrew Gulledge General configuration issues Question selection– In addition to choosing questions that generally have a high percentage correct and fraud separation, consider...
–by Andrew Gulledge Where does Knowledge Based Authenticationfit into my decisioning strategy? Knowledge Based Authentication can fit into various parts of your authentication process....
In my last post I discussed the problem with confusing what I would call “real” Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) with secret questions. However, I don’t...
–by Andrew Gulledge Definition and examples Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) is when you ask a consumer questions to which only they should know the...
Round 1 – Pick your corner There seems to be two viewpoints in the market today about Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA): one positive, one...
Many compliance regulations such the Red Flags Rule, USA Patriot Act, and ESIGN require specific identity elements to be verified and specific high risk...