Experian Offers KBA Through IVR

Knowledge-based authentication is a big part of many institutions layered security strategy for securing the phone channel, and typically involves a CSR apologizing before asking customers somewhat personal questions to confirm their identity.

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Experian has a new product that will at least cut out the apologizing part, and likely reduce call center operations costs,  call time, and potentially shorten wait times as the time-consuming KBA process is handled by Adeptra’s interactive voice response engine.

Dubbed Knowledge IQ, the product is already live in a top five U.S. bank, Experian says, and can be utilized for both inbound and outbound calls.


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