# Arcot Systems

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/arcot-systems/  
**Website:** https://arcot.broadcom.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 1.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-4.2 from 5.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 9.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Arcot Systems Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Payment Security, Fraud Prevention, Authentication, 3-D Secure, Cardholder Authentication, Risk-Based Authentication, Payments

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/arcot-systems/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.