Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

Arcot’s A-OK selected for REALTORS online projects

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The California Association of REALTORS has selected Arcot’s cloud-based A-OK authentication solution for its online business. A-OK will provide secure access to the Web site’s California Real Estate Dynamic Data (calREDD) Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for member REALTORS in six major MLS associations.

The ease at which the Arcot solution will work with the calREDD system was what made REALTORS finally choose A-OK. Additionally because A-OK is a hosted solution, the company did not have to then build their own data center.


Arcot products can be deployed in the cloud and provide single sign-on, fraud detection and authentication for software-as-a-service for internal or mobile applications primarily serving customers in global IT, banking, pharmaceuticals, services providers and other enterprise accounts.

The A-OK service adopted by REALTORS will protect approximately 5,000 individual members from 15 regional offices. [end] 

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