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Channel Post MEA
10-06-2025
- Automotive
- Channel Post MEA
HCLSoftware Launches XDO Framework In Middle East
HCLSoftware, the enterprise software division of HCLTech, kicked off its high-octane Executive Summit at Madinat Jumeirah on June 3. The invitation-only event blended Formula 1 energy with enterprise innovation, drawing C-suite leaders and technologists eager to explore how the company's Scuderia Ferrari partnership and the new Experience (X) Data (D) Operations (O) (XDO) framework accelerate digital transformation across the region. Kalyan Kumar, CPO, HCLSoftware led the unveiling, demonstrating how XDO integrates human-centered experience design, unified data intelligence, and AI-orchestrated operations into a self-managing growth engine. 'Dubai embodies speed, precision, and visionary outcomes— exactly what XDO delivers,' KK told delegates. 'With the XDO framework we're not retrofitting AI onto legacy systems; we're creating a unified engine that blends experience, data, and operations to keep enterprises ahead of the competition.' The summit's highlight featured an exciting case study from Ferrari's Digital Platforms team, showcasing how HCL AppScan delivers a holistic approach to application testing through a single platform, thus directly supporting the team's Digital+ initiative. In the high-stakes racing environments where performance and reliability are paramount, HCL AppScan provides end-to-end testing capabilities, eliminating the need for multiple tools, delivering automated testing with unified visibility via a centralized dashboard across a complex, evolving applications landscape—giving the team complete transparency and control. Attendees also engaged with a compelling Deloitte keynote on GenAI mindsets, a customer panel featuring UAE banking and retail brands, and rapid-fire spotlights on AI-driven IT operations and outcome-based service models. Fresh off Deloitte Digital's new research report 'Mindset Matters | Four Keys to Creating GenAI Experiences,' yesterday's summit spotlighted a high-energy session led by Shakeel Sawar, Partner – Advertising, Marketing & Commerce, Deloitte Middle East. Drawing on findings that segment consumers into Optimists, Maybes, Unawares and Avoidants, Sawar showed how transparency, consistency, user-control and delight convert generative-AI pilots into revenue-producing experiences. Attendees left with a practical checklist that dovetails perfectly with HCLSoftware's XDO blueprint, ensuring future AI-infused journeys stay human-centric while delivering the operational velocity and data intelligence Gulf organisations demand. 'Generative AI's promise is no longer science fiction; it is a billion-dollar growth lane visible in quarterly P&Ls,' said Shakeel Sawar, Partner – Advertising, Marketing & Commerce, Deloitte Middle East. 'Yet adoption hinges on mindset, not just model size. Customers want efficiency, creativity and learning—but only when they feel informed, in control and secure.' KK also underscored HCLSoftware's alignment with the 'We the UAE 2031' vision, pledging to grow local talent and partner ecosystems as Gulf enterprises pivot from cost-centric IT to outcome-oriented Digital+ services. 'We're here to help customers trade spreadsheets for telemetry, queues for seamless journeys, and bolt-ons for built-ins—without ripping out what already works,' he said. With a new Dubai hub coming online this quarter, HCLSoftware will extend its portfolio—from Unica+ MarTech platform to Actian Data Intelligence Platform and BigFix secure automation to organisations eager to balance scale with speed. The event drew strong participation from leading global system integrators (GSIs), such as Deloitte, along with key business partners from across the region. The exciting launch event concluded with the inaugural HCL Software Awards and a raffle, which sent one lucky guest to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Korea Herald
23-04-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
HCLSoftware Launches HCL AppScan API Security
A comprehensive API Security solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their API assets while minimizing risk. NOIDA, India, April 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- HCLSoftware, a global leader in enterprise software solutions, announced today the launch of HCL AppScan API Security, in partnership with Salt Security. This comprehensive API security program enables organizations to effectively manage all their API assets and ensure they continue to deliver business value without introducing increased levels of risk. HCL AppScan API Security is designed to reduce security blind spots with an expert-trained, AI-infused discovery platform that finds and inventories all API assets, ensures corporate API standards in runtime and development, and integrates seamlessly with dynamic analysis to pinpoint and fix vulnerabilities. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are rapidly transforming the digital landscape, with APIs now accounting for well over 50 percent of all web traffic. APIs facilitate seamless communication between applications and are now being relied upon to drive cloud services, mobile apps, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. But all this traffic has, at the same time, made APIs a leading attack vector that can be exploited by bad actors, and organizations are now facing a whole new set of security challenges. "The growing dependence on APIs has made robust API security a boardroom-level concern for our customers, all of whom are looking to improve their security posture and safeguard their digital ecosystems," said Rajesh Iyer, Executive Vice President, HCLSoftware. 2023 saw a significant increase over previous years in both the total number of API attacks, as well as the percentage of data breaches associated with API vulnerabilities. And the trend is continuing. In the recent 2024 State of API Security report from Salt Security, 37% of the organizations surveyed reported having experienced an API-related security incident – twice that of the previous year. Just in the first six months of 2024, various news agencies have reported large-scale API-related attacks across numerous industries including social media and file sharing platforms, technology companies, and e-commerce sites, to name a few, leading to compromised data for millions of users. APIs have become so ubiquitous that many companies don't even know how many they are using. The number for medium and larger organizations can easily be in the hundreds. APIs now play multiple roles in every industry, most evidently in functionality such as online shopping, media delivery, payment gateways, workflow automation, microservices, software development – the list goes on. This means that the first step to securing APIs is gathering a full and accurate inventory of what is being used. "One of the key capabilities of HCL AppScan API Security is its ability to continuously discover and record an organization's entire API inventory." said Colin Bell, CTO for HCL AppScan. "This allows security teams to gain insights into their overall security posture." The rising trend in API attacks led the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) to create The OWASP API Security Top 10 – a list of the most critical security risks specifically related to APIs. The list was compiled to help organizations understand and mitigate the risks associated with API vulnerabilities. These include key areas that organizations should focus on when securing their APIs such as Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA), Excessive Data Exposure, and Security Misconfiguration, just to name a few. According to the 2024 State of API Security report from Salt Security, 80% of attack attempts leverage one or more of OWASP API Top 10 methods, but only about 58% of respondents surveyed focus their security efforts around this list. "With the rise in API security incidents and regulatory oversight, organizations need to maintain continuous compliance across their API ecosystems," stated Michael Nicosia, COO and Co-founder at Salt Security. "By combining HCL AppScan's powerful scanning features with Salt Security's real-time governance and visibility of attack surfaces, including our discovery of undocumented and shadow APIs, we deliver unified insights and deeper visibility across their entire API landscape. This enables organizations to proactively identify risks and uphold compliance with essential standards such as PCI DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA throughout the API lifecycle." HCL AppScan API Security ensures 100 percent coverage of the OWASP API Security Top 10 list and provides organizations with numerous capabilities for more robust API security including: For more information about HCL AppScan API Security, please visit: About HCLSoftware HCLSoftware is a global leader in software innovation and the software division of HCLTech. We develop, market, sell, and support transformative solutions across various industries, including business and industry, intelligent operations, total experience, data and analytics, and cybersecurity. Our commitment to customer success and our core values of integrity, inclusion, value creation, people-centricity, and social responsibility drive us to deliver best-in-class software products that empower organizations to achieve their goals. With a rich heritage of pioneering spirit, HCLSoftware serves more than 20,000 organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 100 and almost half of the Fortune 500. 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