Short Take: iCat backs SET with alliances

Catalog software vendor iCat has announced alliances to support the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) 1.0 protocol for safeguarding credit card purchases over the Internet. It is working with SET payment providers IBM, VeriFone, and Outreach Communications to offer merchants SET "cash register" software for accepting payments. ICat also unveiled alliances with hardware vendor nCipher and certificate authority VeriSign.

Dec. 22, 1997 12:35 p.m. PT

Catalog software vendor has announced alliances to support the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) 1.0 protocol for safeguarding credit card purchases over the Internet. It is working with SET payment providers IBM, VeriFone, and Outreach Communications to offer merchants SET "cash register" software for accepting payments. ICat also unveiled alliances with hardware vendor nCipher and certificate authority VeriSign.