wedbush securities analyst dan ives said in a note thursday that investors should focus on oversold tech stocks and cybersecurity companies as global markets sink after russia invaded ukraine tech names will likely see significant pain amid the selloff thursday ives said investors continue to seek out safe havens sending stocks lower while pushing the price of oil government bonds and gold higher but ives says investors shouldnt panic and should instead focus on largecap tech stocks while each geopolitical shock event is different and unique our playbook since 2000 has been to use these periods of global chaos to buy the tech winners that we view as way oversold in a paniclike sell off ives said ives listed a number of technology names that investors should look to including microsoft apple oracle adobe salesforce as well as core chip names microsoft shares slid 1 in early trading on thursday while apple fell more than 2 and oracle shares were flat shares of adobe and salesforce rose 1 the cybersecurity sector could also see a lift as a result of the invasion ives said experts previously warned of possible cyber ramifications from the conflict and on wednesday several ukrainian government websites were knocked offline due to a mass distributed denial of service attack with significantly elevated cyber attacks now on the horizon we believe added growth tailwinds for the cybersecurity sector and wellpositioned vendors should be a focus sector for investors during this market turmoil ives said palo alto networks crowdstrike zscaler and tenable were among several core cybersecurity names ives most likely to benefit from heightened threats of cyberattacks