Global enterprises need to formulate and implement an adaptive and evolving approach towards their security posture, says Maninder Singh, corporate vice president and head – Cyber Security & GRC, HCL Technologies.
Sharing his thoughts on cyber security investments, Maninder told Infotechlead that HCL’s view is that Cyber–Security is not limited to return on investments from point technology investments, but requires a more programmatic maturity driven approach. Therefore, CISOs need to make programmatic investments.
At this end, HCL helps clients define the ‘Investment and Deprecation’ areas to ‘rationalize’ their current investments (removing duplicate licensed/shelf–ware software through a maturity driven roadmap) as well as refreshing/standardizing through HCL’s ‘Cloud Driven’ offerings and minimize Capex.
According to him, most modern attacks are a result of high degree of reliance and fascination around NextGen tools and products, without any attention to integration of various tools and processes to generate ‘action oriented insights’ and Governance around basic ‘hygiene’ elements like patch management, DR planning, user awareness, vulnerability management program etc.
HCL offers integrated solutions across Cloud, Digital and IoT to help customers align security investments to impact a business goal or outcome.
HCL’s “Dynamic Cybersecurity Framework” enables enterprises to assess their current cybersecurity strategy and validate if their security architecture is scalable enough to defend against relevant risks and support business initiatives.
Additionally it takes an integrated view of architecture, technical design and underlying operations, which means putting frequent checks and balances including a comprehensive review at least once a year.
When asked about latest client wins and industry verticals on focus, Maninder said the current market conditions offer innumerable opportunities for HCL to expand our footprint in existing and new customers.
Without disclosing names, he said HCL recently added a health insurer, leading insurance major, a top educational institution, a media company, a home supplies retailer, a supermarket chain, a top stock exchange, a Dutch hi-tech player into its client list.
HCL Technologies posted $1,817 million in revenue in the Q4 fiscal 2017, up 14.5 percent year-on-year. The increase in revenue was driven by growth in public services, retail, lifescience and healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, media, and financial services.
Impressive Q4 results encourage the IT major to expect that its growth vector will move up further in the coming quarters.
