APAC firms must transform cybersecurity approach from olivajohn's blog

With the number of data breaches escalating and threat landscape fast evolving, Asia-Pacific enterprises will have to think outside the box and transform their cybersecurity strategy, especially since current tools are no longer effective in staving off attacks.

Asia-Pacific businesses must start thinking outside the box and transform their cybersecurity strategy, as the threat landscape is increasingly complex and the number of major data breaches escalating. Hackers' tactics and focus also have become more insidious, so existing tools and approaches may no longer be effective in staving off attacks. 

To further compound the problem, there currently is a lack of talent, with the global studies predicting there will be 3.5 million vacancies in the cybersecurity industry by 2021, according to Jinan Budge, Forrester's principal analyst for security and risk, citing research from Cybersecurity Ventures.

Following a year of several high-profile breaches in the region, including Singapore's SingHealth breach that affected 1.5 million patients, chief information security officers (CISOs) in Asia-Pacific remained challenged in 2019 as regulatory uncertainties continued and economies showed signs of slowing down, said Budge, who was speaking at RSA Conference in Singapore this week. 

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