Cyberattacks keeping CISOs up at night vary by geography, as do strategies for protecting the business from compromise. In the Asia-Pacific region, for example, threat intelligence experts say evolutions in ransomware, long dwell time, and local nation-state actors are top of mind.
“I’ve seen a huge uptick in terms of the evolution of the ransomware threat space,” says Steve D’sa, director of consulting for Mandiant, in a discussion of online attacks targeting Asia-Pacific organizations.
While attackers historically have targeted businesses purely for financial gain, he says they’re now paying closer attention to which parts of the businesses they can access and the type of data they can steal. If a victim refuses to pay up, they…