The real cost of insider threats is not the incident: It’s the frequency
While much of the cybersecurity conversation focuses on how AI is transforming external threats, many organizations in Asia Pacific are dealing with a more immediate issue: the growing frequency of insider-driven incidents.
For years, cybersecurity has been shaped by the idea of the “big incident”, a single, high-impact incident that disrupts operations, exposes sensitive data, and makes headlines. But that framing no longer reflects how risk plays out in many organizations today, particularly across Asia Pacific.
Recent research shows that organizations in APAC are experiencing insider-driven cyber incidents more frequently than their counterparts in North America and Europe. On average, companies in the region face around eight such incidents each month, compared with approximately six in EMEA and five in North America.
While the cost per incident is broadly consistent globally, the higher frequency in APAC changes the equation entirely.
The real issue is not the scale of any one...
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