According to Commvault's  "ASEAN State of Data Readiness Report 2024," cyber resiliency maturity is low among ASEAN organisations. The report revealed that  71% of organisations have experienced at least one cyberattack in the past year, but only 35% successfully recovered 100% of their data. 

Cyberattacks and recovery challenges

Business leaders prioritise the speed of business resumption, with 79% expecting the business resumption and data restoration after five days. Despite IT teams reporting recovery from a breach, it is between four and five weeks.

"From our research, it is clear there are serious gaps in ASEAN organisations' cyber resiliency maturity, their ability to recover all data, and the speed by which they can resume operations as the business requires," said Michel Borst, area vice president, Commvault

Testing and cleanrooms 

The study revealed that only 7% of ASEAN companies believe they have a 'proactive, mature cyber resiliency capability'. 

Moreover, 85% of companies stated they have a response plan in place, but only 26% said they clearly understood it, and 22% admitted their incident response capability is weak, "very unorganised," and "(they) scramble to respond."

Daniel Tan, Commvault's Head of Solutions Engineering, Asia, highlighted the importance of testing incident response and cyber readiness. Admitting that traditional testing modes are riddled with challenges, he suggested organisations leverage modern cleanrooms in the cloud to help address testing challenges. 

"They are designed to not only provide companies with a way to orchestrate, on demand, recovery into a clean, isolated location in the cloud, but organisations can also use them to frequently and cost-effectively test their cyber recovery strategies in advance – critical in an age of rapidly evolving cyber threats," added Tan.