Aigul Tokayeva: Shaping the Future of Enterprises with Disruptive Technology Solutions

Hi-Tech Intelligent Services LLC is an IT and business consulting company that provides IT, cybersecurity services, and business consulting. With a passion for adding value and creating something meaningful for its clients, the company ensures transparency of IT processes for enterprises. It also offers a full range of ERP and EPM implementation services and a full-cycle software development service specifically designed for a business, data warehouse modeling, and the digital transformation of business.

The company offers complex software solutions for automation and optimization of business processes in manufacturing and financial institutions along with cybersecurity services. The most popular services of Hi-tech Intelligent are penetration testing (pentests) and Security Operations Center (SOC). The company is developing its penetration testing services in several directions by testing the depth of automation. Along with its partners, Hi-tech Intelligent has developed a unique vulnerability scanners aggregator, which combines about 700 vulnerability scanners of other vendors. The aggregator allows the company to reduce the manual work of finding and analyzing vulnerabilities significantly.

Services like cloud infrastructure security auditing, deep SaaS, API security testing, and higher analysis make Hi-Tech intelligent unique in the market. The company is also expanding its presence in vertical markets as it has a deep expertise in industrial security, SCADA security, automotive security, banks, blockchain, and healthcare data security.

An Experienced Leader

Aigul Tokayeva is the Founder and primary decision-maker of Hi-Tech Intelligent Services. She received an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Ecology from Eurasian National University. Additionally, her MBA degree in Finance from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA, added a feather in her cap with more than 13 years of working experience in operating and managerial positions.

Before founding Hi-Tech Intelligent Services, Aigul served as the Head of Chemical Testing Lab of Amitex Astana LLP, one of Kazakhstan's leading pipe technology companies. Later, she served as Senior Process and Health & Safety Engineer (HSE) Polyethylene and isolated pipes plant at Tera Group LTD. Aigul had also held several senior technical and management positions at Kazakhstan National Railway Company.

Overcoming Challenges with Hard work

Aigul faced significant hardships when she started her business. She was scared of the new challenges and responsibilities for people who started working with her. Aigul had to work hard to earn people's respect and recognition as a leader.

Building the Organization Culture

Aigul believes that every transformational leader has to possess the ability to decide and have a vision for the future. As an entrepreneur, Aigul is focused on empowering and leading employees who are valuable assets to the company. The company's goal is to work as a team to get outstanding outcomes, performance, make and add value to the company and society.

Providing Training to Employees about Emerging Technologies

Hi-Tech Intelligent is continually adopting an innovative approach to embed analytics capabilities in the company. The company focuses on learning the basics about innovation, cutting-edge technology and tools, and applying them for the organization's growth.

Stimulating Productivity with Disruptive Technologies

Aigul feels that disruptive technology is changing the world dramatically, and a leader's role is significant in those processes. "The main goal is improving technological processes and providing more value to the customer by anticipating and solving future problems," she says.

Aigul believes that companies that adopt disruptive technologies will significantly enhance performance. Automation of the process also can boost productivity and improve predictions, outcomes, and optimization. Leaders have tremendous opportunities to embrace the transformation and performance from data, analytics, and digitization in artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, and machine learning.

Aigul suggests that leaders should revamp and revise current business models leveraging the power of data analytics, artificial intelligence, and other digital technologies. She advises that leaders should also use new technologies with the perspective of job creation to provide new opportunities. There are various unique types of work, not foreseen at the time, she adds.

Automating Security Services with Cloud Solutions

Aigul anticipates that the future of the company and industry lies in further automation, digitalization of organization, security processes, operations to reduce manual work and leverage artificial intelligence wherever possible. For example, in cloud technologies, Infrastructure-as-Code approaches are being developed. Information security trends are not lagging, and Security-as-Code strategies are evolving as well.

Hi-tech Intelligent strives to automate its security services, package them into solutions, and make them available to a wide range of users. It has talented software developers with an information security background and security experts with software development and cloud experience. Therefore, the company looks confident about its future and hopes to take a significant market share of SaaS and cloud security solutions and services.

Taking Risks and Delivering Better Outcomes

Aigul advises that a leader must be passionate about what an individual does and works for the result. She suggests that instead of being afraid of taking risks and taking actions, the leader should believe in oneself.