Over 55% companies in APAC hit by cyber attack in last 12 months: Dell

Concerns over cyber threats continue to grow and remain at the top of the list for causes of organisational disruption with 57% of respondents in India, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Singapore reporting a cyberattack that prevented access to data in the past 12 months, according to the findings of a new report by Dell Technologies.

This is the highest percentage of companies impacted in more than five years, according to Dell’s Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) Cyber Resiliency Multicloud Edition. The monetary impact to organisations is considerable with costs more than doubling over the previous report to $1.4 million on average.