Malaysian Organizations to Experience Data Breach in the Next Year

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cybersecurity leader revealed that the risk of cyber attacks has increased in the last year. According to a new survey, 73% of organizations in Malaysia report they are likely to experience a data breach that impacts customer data in the next 12 months. The findings come from Trend Micro’s biannual Cyber Risk Index (CRI) report, which measures the gap between respondents’ cybersecurity preparedness versus their likelihood of being attacked.

“Once again we’ve found plenty to keep CISOs awake at night, from operational and infrastructure risks to data protection, threat activity and human-shaped challenges,” said Goh Chee Hoh, Managing Director for Trend Micro Malaysia and Nascent Countries. “To lower cyber risk, organizations must be better prepared by going back to basics, identifying the critical data most at risk, focusing on the threats that matter most to their business, and delivering multi-layered protection from comprehensive, connected platforms.”

Key findings for Malaysia from the report include:

• 58% said it was somewhat to very likely that they’d suffer serious cyber attacks in the next 12 months
• 30% suffered more than 7 cyber attacks that infiltrated networks/systems
• 14% had more than 7 data breaches of information assets
• 21% suffered more than 7 breaches of customer data over the past year

APAC organizations also ranked the top three negative consequences of an attack as disruption or damages to critical infrastructure, lost intellectual property, and cost of outside consultants and experts.

The top security risks to infrastructure include malicious and negligent insiders, cloud computing infrastructure and providers, along with organizational misalignment and complexity.

The main challenges for cybersecurity preparedness include limitations for security leaders who lack the authority and resources to achieve a strong security posture, as well as organizations struggling to enable security technologies that are sufficient to protect their data assets and IT infrastructure.

(This content is surmised from a press release)