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Arcot Systems

Arcot Systems is a payment security and advanced authentication company founded in 1997 that co-invented the 3-D Secure protocol with Visa. Its TransFort and ArcotID products delivered card-not-present fraud prevention, risk-based authentication, and cardholder authentication for online card payments. Accel was an early venture investor. CA Technologies acquired Arcot in 2010 in a $200 million all-cash transaction, and the technology now ships as the "Arcot by Broadcom" payment security and fraud prevention product line at arcot.broadcom.com. It is no longer an independent company and publishes no public developer API surface.

Arcot Systems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payment Security, Fraud Prevention, Authentication, and 3-D Secure.

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7.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyPayment SecurityFraud PreventionAuthentication3-D SecureCardholder AuthenticationRisk-Based AuthenticationPayments

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Arcot Systems Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Product
Product

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: arcot-systems
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/arcot-systems.png
name: Arcot Systems
description: Arcot Systems is a payment security and advanced authentication company founded in 1997 that co-invented the
  3-D Secure protocol with Visa. Its TransFort and ArcotID products delivered card-not-present fraud prevention, risk-based
  authentication, and cardholder authentication for online card payments. Accel was an early venture investor. CA Technologies
  acquired Arcot in 2010 in a $200 million all-cash transaction, and the technology now ships as the "Arcot by Broadcom" payment
  security and fraud prevention product line at arcot.broadcom.com. It is no longer an independent company and publishes no
  public developer API surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/arcot-systems/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: CA Technologies (2010), now Broadcom
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Payment Security
- Fraud Prevention
- Authentication
- 3-D Secure
- Cardholder Authentication
- Risk-Based Authentication
- Payments
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/arcot-systems-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://arcot.broadcom.com/
- type: Product
  url: https://www.broadcom.com/products/software/payment-security
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence