Highly connected digital hubs are increasingly exposed. Singapore now ranks as the third-largest global source of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) traffic, a trend Buckley links to the city-state’s dense concentration of data centres and cloud infrastructure being exploited by overseas attackers.
Asia Pacific’s race to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) is exposing a growing mismatch between digital ambition and cyber readiness. As AI becomes embedded across cloud, data and enterprise workflows, cybersecurity leaders are quietly shifting focus from stopping every attack to ensuring systems can withstand failure without disrupting growth.
That shift is being driven by a worsening threat environment. “Breach rates globally are rising 17% year-over-year, with 55% of organisations affected in the past 12 months alone,” says Shane Buckley, president and chief executive officer of Gigamon.
