Cyber Security | Asia-Pacific
Key Findings
Common reasons for breaches #
47% of the respondents reported internal process issues as the chief reason for security incidents.
Security issues faced in the last 12 months #
About 44% of respondents said their organization didn't face any security issues in the last 12 months.
OWASP web application security risks #
Cross-site scripting and security misconfigurations came out at the top (50% each) as the most critical security risk to web applications, followed by insufficient logging (46%) & monitoring and SQL injection(42%).
cybersecurity investment areas #
When it comes to strengthening cyber security, investment areas like cloud security takes the top spot (76%), followed by network and application security (65%), threat management (51%), and identity management (47%).
Risk Mitigation | Asia-Pacific
Key Findings
Infrastructure security risk mitigation #
82% of the respondents reported implementing robust password policies as the top recommendation to mitigate infrastructure security risk, followed by immediately updating security patches (76%), implementing VPN access, and having infrastructure security monitoring in place (both 72%).
Application security risk mitigation #
87% of the respondents reported using a web application firewall (WAF) as the top recommendation to mitigate application security risk, followed by periodic penetration testing (66%).
