NCC thrives while staving off cybergeddon

Both divisions of technology services firm NCC had a solid year despite the disappointment of the company's bought-in new information technology not coming up to snuff.

Both divisions of technology services firm NCC had a solid year despite the disappointment of the company's bought-in new information technology not coming up to snuff.

The company has two main divisions: Escrow and Assurance. The Escrow unit holds mission critical software in escrow on behalf of NCC's clients to ensure that even if the client's software supplier goes out of business, support will be maintained, while the Assurance division, in the words of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rob Cotton, fights the good fight to stave off "cybergeddon", as 'hacktivists', corporate spies and unscrupulous foreign governments increasingly try to get their hands on intellectual property of corporate clients, while cyber-criminals try to hold companies to ransom with "denial of service" attacks on their web sites.

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