What are primary factors for suspicious activity alerts?
Primary factors are the core criteria that must be met for suspicious activity to be detected, and they set the base Confidence Score.
Overview
Primary factors are the key conditions that identify suspicious activity. Once transactions meet the alert type's detection criteria, Kinectify evaluates the data to identify whether the primary factor criteria are satisfied.
When the primary factors are met, the activity is recorded as an event and given a base Confidence Score, the average of its primary factor scores. Contributing and mitigating factors then adjust this score. The event becomes an alert only if its final Confidence Score is at or above the alert type's Escalation threshold.
Depending on the alert type, primary factors may include:
A specific range of monetary values
Utilization of funds (e.g., buy-ins, redemptions)
The number of occurrences of a behavior within a defined time period
Other alert-specific criteria
Each alert type has its own set of primary factors. Refer to the knowledge base articles for individual alert types to understand how primary factors are defined and applied.
For Active alerts, primary factors are listed under Primary risk factors on the alert type's Risk assessment tab in Settings > Alerts (Beta).