Category: Cybersecurity

  • A geopolitical cyber emergency is escalating—and we’re all deer in the headlights

    May 31, 2025 | ,

    As global tensions escalate—from Ukraine and Israel to rising flashpoints in South Asia—cyberwarfare has emerged as the new frontline. It targets not just military infrastructure, but also cloud platforms, supply chains, tech ecosystems, social media feeds, and the smartphones of your employees. Today's CIO not only has to manage significant pressures from their boards and leadership peers to deliver an AI agenda, but they also have to balance this with a proactive, holistic cybersecurity approach that business leaders can comprehend. Mess up your cybersecurity, and you’re not only fired, but your entire firm may just sink with you.Read More

  • Google makes its biggest enterprise move, but can it make up lost ground?

    March 19, 2025 | ,

    Google has struggled for years to sink real teeth into the enterprise, but it may have just found its path to take on Microsoft and AWS as an AI cyber giant and gain real relevance as an enterprise cloud AI platform.  This massive acquisition of Wiz also firmly positions Google directly against cyber vendors, namely Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike.If it plays this well, Google could end up closing this gap to both AWS and Microsoft in the enterprise AI platform market as cloud, cyber, and AI become completely intertwined.  However, with AWS dominating a third of the global cloud market and Google barely having more than 10%, Google will have to tread carefully to avoid alienating the vast portfolio of Wiz customers.  It has to prove to its new Wiz cyber clients it can be cloud-agnostic to optimize this massive investment.Read More

  • Services-as-Software presents a $1.5 Trillion Opportunity for both Software and Services firms

    February 07, 2025 | ,

    Enter Services-as-Software—an AI-first, automated service layer that’s coming to obliterate everything in its path. No more billable hours. No more clunky SaaS. Services-as-Software is not a death knell for service providers and software vendors. It’s the $1.5 trillion opportunity of our lifetime. Read More

  • CrowdStrike is accountable for ITIL failure but Microsoft must manage its SaaS ecosystem more diligently

    July 23, 2024 | ,

    As the CrowdStrike outages illustrate, many IT departments are getting too complacent allowing their SaaS vendors to have full control of application management, updates, and automated delivery, especially when it comes to security updates. In addition, tech giants like Microsoft must be more diligent with their SaaS ecosystem partners.Read More

  • Automation doesn’t dictate why we do things; It must dictate how we do them

    October 29, 2022 |

    10 years since HFS introduced RPA to the industry, and we’re finally focusing on automation as a value-lever that drives business outcomes.  The pandemic has shifted the automation focus from creating efficiencies in the back office to delivering immediate business impact, where talent shortages can be overcome, where digital workflows can operate despite broken supply chains, and where businesses can function effectively in their virtual and hyperconnected ecosystems.Read More

  • Service providers must buy Atos’ crown jewels now and learn from dithering over Kyndryl

    With its proposed contentious Kyndryl-style split and rapid CEO departure, Atos is teetering on the brink. As if its decline in stock price, recent accounting scandals, and lackluster financial performance were not enough, the firm now is more primed than ever for being acquired with these latest developments. HFS believes competitors should move to acquire Atos’ jewels now and not wait for the bleeding to start.So what are the lessons learned from IBM’s Kyndryl spin-off and what is HFS’s take on the current predicament in which Atos finds itself?Read More

  • Cyber Ralph serving up some sparkle for HFS

    August 29, 2021 |

    Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz joins HFS to lead CybersecurityRead More

  • Surviving to win in this “Have-to-Have” Economy

    August 27, 2020 |

    Identifying your customers’ have-to-haves is the only path to follow in this market, but only once they know what there areRead More