🆚 Arcot vs. Sift
- 📈 Arcot is much more popular than Sift.
- 🌎 Arcot is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Sift is more popular in Colombia.
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About
The Arcot Network is a payment authentication network that enables card issuers, merchants, and payment processors to authenticate cardholder identity during online payments.
It is built on the 3-D Secure protocol that Arcot co-created with 
Visa in 2001, and provides fraud scoring based on the Arcot Global Data Consortium, machine learning rules for automated authentication decisions, and exemption handling for Strong Customer Authentication and PSD2 compliance.
Sift is an AI-powered fraud prevention platform that provides payment protection, content integrity, and account defense.
It draws on behavior, device, and identity signals and a global data network of over one trillion annual events to generate real-time risk scores. It claims to reduce chargebacks significantly, detect and block account takeover attempts using device fingerprinting and MFA, protect against spam, scams, and phishing in user-generated content through text clustering, and integrate with custom workflows and rules engines for more precise fraud operations.
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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Fraud Prevention category.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,896,634 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.