Research & Insight

Monthly archives: December, 2013

Criminals Turn to Outsourcing to Launch Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Here’s one sign that outsourcing has become an accepted global business strategy: the criminals have adopted it! Yes, friends, neighbors and countrymen, criminals are hiring IT experts to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which effectively bring down Websites. NSFOCUS, Inc., a company that provides enterprise-level network security solutions and services, tracked 168,459 individual DDoS attacks …

How Texting, Veterans and SEO Helped RPO Companies Fill High-Demand Jobs

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Even as the economy has improved worldwide, the unemployment figures are still stubbornly high. But talking to HR and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) executives, they are working overtime to fill certain jobs. Sometimes the skill set is too much in demand or just rare. In other cases, it is near impossible to reach the right …

The New-Age Social Revolution

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Companies can use social media effectively to generate and spread ideas, to collaborate and communicate in real-time across the organization. In a world where the death of a butterfly in Mexico and rise of forest fires in Australia are connected, where opposing calamities like droughts and floods are the result of one cause, does it …

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