Less than a week after announcing its partnership with mobile authentication and e-commerce enablement firm, ForgeRock, Entersekt is back in the fintech headlines with news that Equifax will deploy the South African firm’s Transakt solution as an additional layer to protect Equifax’s online and mobile services.

“We are excited to team up with Equifax in enhancing protection of its customers’ identities and personal data,” Entersekt’s North America SVP Sherif Samy said. “This alliance plays into our long-standing strategy of partnering with leading global companies to assist them in launching products and services that represent the best in digital innovation, usability, and security.”

Transakt supports an intuitive, one-touch authentication experience for users. The solution sends the user a real time authentication request via their mobile device whenever a digital identity or account is required. The user simply approves or blocks access by tapping “Accept” or “Reject” to enable or prevent access. Transakt uniquely identifies each registered device, ensures its continued integrity as a factor of authentication, and creates a channel between the device and the digital service provider through which identities are confirmed and sensitive digital transactions conducted.

Gaurav Khanna, SVP for Global Product Management and New Product Innovation added, “Entersekt’s market leading offering enables us to expand our trusted services to various new digital channels. Adding Transakt to our platforms provides us with a secure way to identify, reach out to, and interact with our customers.”

A participant in our 2014 developers conference, FinDEVr Silicon Valley, Entersekt’s CTO discussed cybersecurity challenges in a presentation titled, “Securing Mobile Applications through Transport Layer Diversity.” Since then, the company has partnered with FirstBank ($15 billion in assets), teamed up with multiple Finovate Best of Show winner Backbase, and worked with fellow Finovate/FinDEVr alum CREALOGIX. Founded in 2008, Entersekt is based in Stellenbosch, NA, South Africa. Schalk Nolte is CEO.

Mobile-first authentication and e-commerce enablement specialist Entersekt announced today that it has joined the ForgeRock Trust Network as a principal technology partner. ForgeRock provides identity and access management solutions to financial services, retail, healthcare, and communications companies as well as to educational institutions and governments including Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway.

“Entersekt will bring our customers powerful, proven authentication options that will add great vale to the exciting digital transformation projects they are embarking on with ForgeRock,” Ben Goodman, VP of global strategy and innovation for ForgeRock said. Entersekt’s advanced mobile app security, authentication, and digital signing solutions integrate seamlessly into ForgeRock’s identity and access management platform, giving customers an easy way to secure individuals, connected devices, and services.

“As Entersekt did with push-based authentication, so has ForgeRock reimagined identity and access management, rearchitecting it from the ground up,” Entersekt CCO Dewald Nolte said. “Besides our game-changing complementary technologies, it’s that pioneering approach that I believe will benefit mutual customers the most. It promises to spur further innovation and help deliver to end users the best mobile experiences available anywhere.”

Entersekt’s solutions can be applied to a variety of challenges including mobile app security, strong authentication, payments enabling, digital signing, biometric enablement and regulatory compliance. The company’s flagship products are Transakt, which provides one-touch, multi-factor authentication for digital banking and payments, Interakt, which enables push USSD, out-of-band communication for feature phones, and Connekt, which provides secure and seamless e-commerce enablement. Entersekt secures 150 million digital transactions every month in 45 countries, protecting tens of millions of end users.

Entersekt participated in our developer’s conference, FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2014, with a presentation titled Securing Mobile Applications Through Transport Layer Diversity. Headquartered in Stellenbosch, NA, South Africa and founded in 2008, the company includes RMI and Endeavor Catalyst among its investors. Schalk Nolte is CEO.