Technique

Knowledge-based authentication

technique:knowledge_based_authentication Also: KBA

Identity verification using personal facts such as an address or the last digits of a phone number.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
incoming USES Rachel Tobac Explicit 144

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Rachel Tobac USES Knowledge-based authentication

Rachel discusses knowledge-based authentication as an identity-verification method that attackers can find information to defeat; she does not present it as the bank’s preferred method in this test.

Explicit Confidence 86% · Rachel Tobac EP 144 Details

“knowledge-based authentication, things like, what’s your address? What’s the last four digits of your phone number?”