Evangelical Christian Credit Union has selected Arcot's A-OK On Demand Cloud Authentication Service to provide secure online financial transactions for ECCU's church, Christian school and missionary account holders in more than 100 countries.

ECCU recently began developing a new web portal to expand its online presence and try and provide more robust services to its customers. As part of the upgrade, ECCU wanted to replace its existing authentication solution and chose Arcot's A-OK On Demand Cloud Authentication Service. The service includes Arcot's WebFort, which provides authentication in order to prevent fraud when accessing online accounts and other secure documents, products, and services.

"Security is a very important strategic imperative for us. We evaluated a range of options and Arcot A-OK On Demand provided the best fit for our requirements," said Alan Weisenberger, ECCU's vice president of technology services.  "This solution meets all of our needs for strong, software-only PKI security, user experience, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and ease of integration and deployment."

"Arcot's proven cloud-based authentication solutions support a wide range of authentication and integration options. And Arcot's professional services did a great job helping us implement the SAML 2.0 integration with our identity-management and web portal platforms," Weisenberger added. "The ease of being able to integrate a cloud-based authentication solution with our on-premises, single-sign-on solution was key to meeting our needs."