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The hacking community is evolving but the security basics still apply for businesses

They’re often portrayed as socially isolated, disaffected young men tapping keyboards in darkened basements. Motivated by the promise of global notoriety, they spend hours trawling for IT security weaknesses trying to cause disruption and destruction. The reality of hackers today is somewhat different. Often highly educated, many work in loosely connected groups that share knowledge […]

Jim Cook · 2 min
Emerging Tech

Robot and Human: how to blend the two to create the ultimate customer experience

If you work in a business of any size, form or function, chances are you’re being asked to do more – sell more, resolve customer issues faster, hit targets that are ever increasing. Which is all fine, except you’re not being given any more budget – for training, for recruitment or financial incentives. Please do more […]

Joel Hill · 2 min
Digital

How to ‘surge-proof’ your customer service

Surge periods are normal part of any business activity, especially as customer demand peaks around a range of common annual events such as Easter, which is just around the corner. Over the past few years businesses have seen about 50-60% increase in support volume over the holiday period, but despite being aware that businesses are […]

Sreelesh Pillai · 2 min
Business Tech

2015: The rise of impersonators

The infrastructure that holds the internet provides access to about 3 Billion users. So it’s absurd that, when it comes to website hits, billions of humans are beaten by another, larger, community.

Guest Author · 2 min