Hello, everyone and welcome to At Bairns. I'm Andy Surwer. Welcome to our guest, Todd McKeon, CEO of ACTA. Todd, how's it going?

It's going very well. Thanks for having me. Of course. So talk to us about the core function of your company. What is that word?

The core function is

authentication. Nice. And it's keeping our, really it's keeping our customers secure.

Our customers, about 20,000 companies around the world, big names you've heard of like FedEx or

Open AI. They have hard challenges. They have to make all of their people productive by letting them connect to all the tools they need to do their jobs, whether it's their email system or their collaboration system or more recently all their AI, agentic applications they're trying to use. They have to connect those people to those resources securely. It's not only their employees, it's also their customers. They want their customers

connecting to their websites and their mobile apps in a secure and predictable way.

And that's what we do. We're an infrastructure provider that makes the lives of our end users easy.

Employees or customers very easy, but we also, the security

teams that our customers love us because it's more secure and more manageable and helps them

get the most out of their technology.

So what's the difference between authentication and double authentication?

Well, and is that what you guys do, double or single or both?

Well, it's, it's, it's, the thing we really try to do is have, you know, accurate authentication.

So it's all about making sure the right person's going to the right resource.

And there's a bunch of different ways to do that.

You can, the most simplest way is you ask them a password.

But now we're, the industry has moved way beyond this.

Now we can use fingerprints or face IDs and our

mission is to just make it very seamless. So the person doesn't even know they're being

authenticated. They just go to their technology they're trying to use and they're in and

they're doing their job and they're productive. They're buying a product on the website or they're

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