- Application
- Application Security
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Components
- Cybersecurity
- Enterprise
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Who is Entersekt?
Entersekt is a private South African software company that supplies authentication, transaction signing, and mobile application security platforms to banks, card issuers, and payment service providers.
- Customer authentication for online and mobile banking channels
- Transaction signing and verification for card-not-present payments
- Mobile application security and cryptographic device binding
- Fraud prevention controls across digital financial services
- Integration with issuer, acquirer, and payment network infrastructure
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More About Entersekt
Entersekt operates within the financial services sector, specifically in diversified financial services and payments. Its offerings are positioned for institutions that must verify customer identity and authorize transactions across digital channels while meeting regulatory requirements for strong customer authentication. Deployments typically serve retail banks, card issuers, and payment processors that manage high transaction volumes across web, mobile, and point-of-sale environments.
The company's solutions are associated with public key infrastructure, mobile device cryptography, and challenge-response authentication models. Transaction signing functions generate a cryptographic approval on a registered device, binding the customer's authorization to the specific payment details presented. Mobile application security components protect the client application and its keys against tampering and unauthorized access on the endpoint. These capabilities are commonly implemented alongside card scheme protocols such as 3-D Secure, which governs authentication flows for online card payments.
In the enterprise environment, authentication and transaction security tools are usually evaluated against three criteria: how completely they cover the customer journey, how they integrate with existing core banking and payment systems, and how they support regulatory compliance and audit requirements. Entersekt's solutions are designed to operate as a security layer between the customer's device and the institution's authorization systems, which allows issuers and acquirers to add or update controls without redesigning the underlying payment flows.
The business significance of these offerings lies in the shift of financial activity to digital channels, where traditional card present controls do not apply. Institutions use authentication and transaction verification to reduce card-not-present fraud, to support customer trust in self-service banking, and to meet authentication mandates in the jurisdictions where they operate.
The organization's directory positioning reflects its current focus on digital banking security, authentication, and payment transaction protection. Its product families address these solution areas within the financial technology and cybersecurity categories.
Our description of Entersekt. Updated October 2026.
