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] 

NXP Semiconductors announced that its SmartMX secure contactless microcontroller chip has been chosen to power the new German contactless National Identity card.

The German government has selected NXP as the supplier of an inlay solution containing a SmartMX chip, packaged in an ultra-thin module. Issuance of German contactless ID cards, which will replace the current paper-based IDs, will start in November. More than 60 million cards are expected to be rolled out over the next ten years.

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CA Technologies announces the purchase of Arcot Systems Inc. in an all-cash transaction of $200 million. The authentication and fraud detection software company is said to prevent fraudulent transactions for close to a million online credit transactions daily.

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The Online Trust Alliance announced keynotes and speakers for the 5th Annual Online Trust and Cybersecurity Forum being hosted at Georgetown University Sept. 22-24 in Washington DC.

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The August meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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Ceelox has announced that it has finished development of a prototype application that would use Ceelox’s fingerprint biometrics to enable biometric authentication in online environments such as corporate intranets, cloud computing networks and commercial applications like online banking and other personal account-based access.

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PhoneFactor Inc. has added authentication for online banking to its list of service features. The company has introduced the Universal Banking Gateway and added another secure layer to online banking functions.

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