Irish-based authentication technology provider ValidSoft has joined Get Safe Online, a joint initiative between the UK government, law enforcement, businesses and the public to provide computer users and small businesses with advice to protect themselves from internet threats.

Get Safe Online (http://www.getsafeonline.org) enables consumers to protect themselves from identity thieves, viruses, phishing and other internet threats via expert advice from the British government and businesses.

ValidSoft is a subsidiary of Elephant Talk Communications and provides solutions to counter electronic fraud relating to card, the internet, and telephone channels. ValidSoft's solutions are used to verify the authenticity of both parties to a transaction (Mutual Authentication), and the integrity of the transaction itself (Transaction Verification) for the mass market.