For Asia/Pacific midmarket organizations (500–999 employees), cyber resilience is now a board-level measure of business continuity. IDC research found that 82% of fast-growing Asia/Pacific businesses were hit by ransomware in the past 12 months, and 32% paid ransoms of up to US$500,000.
Most have consolidated their backup and data protection tools onto hybrid platforms. The harder challenge comes next: turning that platform into a shared, real-time view of enterprise data that security and IT teams can act on together.