🆚 Arcot vs. Visa Protect
- 📈 Visa Protect is noticeably more popular than Arcot.
- 🌍 Visa Protect is more popular in all countries.
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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.
Visa Protect is a payment authentication platform designed to protect transactions from fraud.
It offers real-time risk-based authentication for issuers and merchants, using AI to score transactions, deliver risk signals, and reduce false declines. It supports EMV 3-D Secure protocol, network-agnostic fraud decisioning across all payment endpoints, tokenization to protect payment data, and a consumer authentication service that allows low-risk transactions to pass without challenge.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Fraud Prevention category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Fraud Prevention category.
Popularity by domain 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.

