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Security, Compliance & Trust
Covers security, compliance, and trust, including data privacy, AI governance, fraud prevention, and regulatory requirements.
29 Sep 2026
Nobody fails an audit because they lacked a policy. Policies are the easy part, drafted once, filed, and produced on request looking entirely satisfactory. Findings come from somewhere else: the gap between what the policy says and what anyone can prove happened on a specific call, on a specific date, involving a specific customer. This […]
23 Sep 2026
Most security questionnaires arriving at a contact center vendor were written for generic software. They ask about encryption at rest and password policies, then stop. Fine as far as it goes, and it misses nearly everything that makes this category risky. What follows is built for the specific thing you’re buying. Why Generic Questionnaires Miss […]
23 Jul 2026
Outbound calling can be one of the most effective ways to reach customers, prospects, patients, donors, and account holders. It can also be one of the riskiest. Every outbound campaign involves legal and operational questions: Who can you call? When can you call them? What consent do you need? Which numbers must be suppressed? Can […]
30 May 2026
Contact centres are the highest-risk customer touchpoint, where attackers bypass technical defences through vishing, account takeover, and AI voice cloning rather than hacking. Strong protection rests on three pillars, verifying identity, protecting data, and controlling access, delivered through risk-based authentication, encryption, payment masking, tight role-based permissions, and role-specific training. In the Gulf, that also means aligning with UAE PDPL, the Central Bank's OTP phase-out, Saudi PDPL and NCA controls, and PCI DSS, while keeping data in-region and audit-ready.
14 May 2026
Short answer: yes, predictive dialing is legal in the US, UK, EU, Canada, and UAE. The software doesn’t violate the law. The way businesses use it often does. The financial risk can escalate fast. The US Federal Communications Commission allows penalties of up to $1,500 per illegal robocall under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). […]
12 May 2026
Compliance in a cloud contact center shapes how you collect interaction data, run outbound campaigns, store recordings, and protect customer trust. When that trust breaks down, the failures are specific. A call gets recorded without proper disclosure. An opt-out gets logged in one system but never reaches the next one. A customer reads out their card number, and now it's sitting in a recording that was never supposed to capture it.