Next Caller has Interactions for phone-based threat assessment
Intelligent virtual assistance (IVA) company Interactions recently announced a new partnership with Next Caller, a phone fraud detection and authentication firm, with a goal of boosting Interactions’ fraud protection, reports Julie Muhn at Finovate.
“One small mishap can provide a fraudster with enough personal information to steal a customer’s identity”
Mary McKenna, director of product management at Interactions, says: “Customer service interactions generate massive amounts of data that are often sensitive, so being able to provide our clients with state of the art security is a must. With this enhanced security offering, we strengthen our commitment to protect our clients and their customers from security threats.”
Under the agreement, Interactions will expand security services for its IVA enterprise clients by leveraging Next Caller’s VeriCall tool, which will add a layer of security to prevent fraudulent phone calls.
VeriCall will help IVA assess the threat level of an incoming call using the caller’s automatic number identification (ANI) and network information.
The resulting risk score will route high risk calls to either further screening questions or to a live agent, and will direct low-risk calls via a more frictionless user experience.
Ian Roncoroni, co-founder and CEO of Next Caller, adds: “Fraud is a growing problem for businesses today, and can be especially damaging to companies that have to deal with large amounts of customer data. One small mishap can provide a fraudster with enough personal information to steal a customer’s identity.”
Interactions will use Next Caller’s technology alongside its current security offerings, including Voice Biometrics, which creates a personalised voice print for customers; ANI Blacklists, which cross-checks a caller’s ANI against existing databases of blacklisted numbers; and Voiceprint Blacklists, which uses the caller’s voiceprint to search an existing database of fraudster voiceprints.
Founded in 2004, Interactions facilitates one billion customer interactions per year across six different channels for brands including Hyatt, Humana, LifeLock, and Mountain America Credit Union.
