Press releases.

Leading authentication provider, Entersekt, today announced that its CEO, Schalk Nolte, and co-founder and vice-president of business development, Dewald Nolte, have been selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs at the 61st Endeavor International Selection Panel, held from 5 to 7 October in Marrakech, Morocco. They were among 24 entrepreneurs chosen at the event, leaders of 18 companies from 10 countries.

Entersekt, South Africa’s leading provider of mobile-based user and transaction authentication, today announced that it has appointed Elias Badenhorst as vice president, customer projects. Badenhorst most recently served as executive head of mobile engineering project management at Vodacom, South Africa’s largest mobile network operator and a major player in Sub-Saharan Africa with over 60 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Entersekt, an innovative pioneer in transaction authentication, has received IBM PartnerWorld’s Ready for IBM Security Intelligence designation for its flagship authentication product, Transakt. The certification provides assurance to IBM customers that Transakt has been validated for integration with IBM Security Access Manager.

Specialist bank, Investec, has implemented Entersekt's multi-factor authentication product, Transakt, to boost the security of its private client mobile applications.

Entersekt, an innovator in transaction authentication technology, has announced it has received an honourable mention in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant report for User Authentication, published 1 December 2014.

On the heels of today's announcement from the FIDO Alliance (Fast IDentity Online) regarding its Universal Second Factor (U2F) specifications, Entersekt, an innovative pioneer in transaction authentication and the FIDO Alliance, has announced the availability of its FIDO U2F-enabled authentication solution, Transakt.