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10 steps to multi-channel payment security in contact centers

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council’s 2018 guidelines entitled ‘Protecting Telephone-based Payment Card Data’ shifted the emphasis from their 2011 advice to securing spoken card data (as opposed to securing recorded payment card data). But now contact centers are embracing a multitude of newer digital channels in addition to voice, what are the best […]

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The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council’s 2018 guidelines entitled ‘Protecting Telephone-based Payment Card Data’ shifted the emphasis from their 2011 advice to securing spoken card data (as opposed to securing recorded payment card data). But now contact centers are embracing a multitude of newer digital channels in addition to voice, what are the best

How to maintain PCI DSS compliance when your contact center agents are working remotely

Many merchants have responded to the Covid-19 epidemic by either asking their contact center agents to stay safe and work from home, or by routing calls to outsourcers handling calls on their behalf. Both of these present a number of unique security challenges and associated risk. During these difficult times, it is clearly important for

How to maintain PCI DSS compliance when your contact center agents are working remotely Read More »

Many merchants have responded to the Covid-19 epidemic by either asking their contact center agents to stay safe and work from home, or by routing calls to outsourcers handling calls on their behalf. Both of these present a number of unique security challenges and associated risk. During these difficult times, it is clearly important for

Omni-channel payment security – buzzwords, real world and evolution

If you’re a contact center operations manager or responsible for IT or telephony, you’ll be used to being bombarded with buzzwords and ‘envisioning’ the contact center of the future. By now, you’re probably on your way to providing a ‘customer engagement center’, with multiple channels seamlessly integrated for tech-savvy consumers to switch between at will. 

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If you’re a contact center operations manager or responsible for IT or telephony, you’ll be used to being bombarded with buzzwords and ‘envisioning’ the contact center of the future. By now, you’re probably on your way to providing a ‘customer engagement center’, with multiple channels seamlessly integrated for tech-savvy consumers to switch between at will. 

Giving the customer control of the contact center experience

Experience customisation is an innovation that’s blossoming in the 21st century. Technology has advanced to the point where a technologically-delivered product can be customised by the consumer’s selection of such a wide variety of options that each instance is likely to be unique. Consider for instance any premium automobile. From the customer’s viewpoint, the range

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Experience customisation is an innovation that’s blossoming in the 21st century. Technology has advanced to the point where a technologically-delivered product can be customised by the consumer’s selection of such a wide variety of options that each instance is likely to be unique. Consider for instance any premium automobile. From the customer’s viewpoint, the range

How our telephony and SaaS experience helps support contact center payment security projects

Syntec background Syntec was founded as a hospital bedside telephony company in 1998.  Whilst this business was subsequently sold off, we’d grown into a UK network operator, switching vast quantities of call traffic internationally on behalf of a growing customer base of call centers belonging to major merchants. We’d also diversified into providing proprietary, managed

How our telephony and SaaS experience helps support contact center payment security projects Read More »

Syntec background Syntec was founded as a hospital bedside telephony company in 1998.  Whilst this business was subsequently sold off, we’d grown into a UK network operator, switching vast quantities of call traffic internationally on behalf of a growing customer base of call centers belonging to major merchants. We’d also diversified into providing proprietary, managed

DTMF masking doesn’t just enable secure keypad payment by phone, it also offers a much better customer experience

The decision to switch to DTMF masking in order to take secure keypad payments by phone is often presented as something that’s for the benefit of the organization taking the payments. What’s often overlooked is the fact that switching to DTMF masking also offers significant benefits to end- customers. Indeed, our own research shows that

DTMF masking doesn’t just enable secure keypad payment by phone, it also offers a much better customer experience Read More »

The decision to switch to DTMF masking in order to take secure keypad payments by phone is often presented as something that’s for the benefit of the organization taking the payments. What’s often overlooked is the fact that switching to DTMF masking also offers significant benefits to end- customers. Indeed, our own research shows that