Attracting new customers is good for business, but retaining customers is even better. It costs one-fifth as much to retain a customer as it does to obtain a new one. In most organizations, 80 percent of profits are generated by 20 percent of their customers — the ones who are most loyal.
4 Ways to Optimize the Contact Center for Customer Retention
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year for Tax Scammers
Tax-filing season is upon us, but it’s like Christmas for cybercriminals.
Each spring, scam artists unleash their annual flood of fraudulent emails, phone calls and text messages designed to steal money or information. Millions of Americans are duped by scammers every year, losing billions of dollars.
Cost of a Data Breach
Cloud Adoption vs. Cloud Maturity
Connecting the dots between cloud maturity and business outcomes.
Many studies estimate cloud adoption rates, but are organizations getting real value from the cloud? Concerns about cloud cost overruns suggest there is room for improvement.
In the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, “managing the cloud spend” topped security as the No. 1 cloud challenge.
Why Behavioral Analytics Tools Are Essential in Today’s Threat Environment
The rise of remote work and the extended enterprise have forced us to change the way we think about IT security. In the past, most security investments focused on preventing external threat actors from infiltrating the network at the perimeter. However, many experts agree that insider threats are a significant security risk.
4 Tips for Selecting and Managing Technology Vendors
Security Automation Has Become an IT Imperative
The near-constant attacks on computer networks make it clear that cybersecurity is no longer a human-scale problem. Traditional security measures such as firewalls and antivirus software aren’t enough to ward off the onslaught of increasingly sophisticated attacks leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Safeguarding Backups
As new threats emerge, organizations must take steps to secure the backup environment.
Data backup is the critical last line of defense against data loss due to ransomware and other cyber threats. However, recent research suggests most organizations aren’t doing enough to secure their backup and storage environments.
Streamlining Endpoint Management
How to Evaluate an MSP’s Operational Maturity
Given the incredible speed of innovation in the IT world, it isn’t surprising that most organizations struggle to effectively implement new technologies while continuing to manage their existing ones. That’s why roughly two-thirds of all organizations in the U.S. rely on managed services providers (MSPs) for essential support.



