90% of organizations in Asia Pacific and Japan bolster cybersecurity capabilities
Threat hunting emerged as a top priority among organizations and companies in the Asia Pacific region and in Japan as reported by British based security software and hardware company Sophos’s The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) survey.
The study revealed that 90 per cent of companies in the surveyed regions indicated that they have undertaken threat hunting in a bid to strengthen their cybersecurity capabilities in 2021. The respondent organization stated that threat hunting as a key consideration for strengthening cybersecurity defenses.
The study also revealed that at the beginning of 2022, 11 percent of technology budgets are dedicated to cybersecurity, an increase from 8.6% the previous year.
“It’s great to see organizations taking cybersecurity more seriously, with budgets and maturity levels on the rise and organizations looking to build threat hunting into their cyber defence strategies,” said Aaron Bugal, global solutions engineer at Sophos.
“Given that threat hunting has become a priority for the majority of organisations, it’s interesting to see that cybersecurity professionals rank ‘not being able to keep up with the pace of threats’ in their top five frustrations in 2022, as indicated in the survey.
