By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin
Publication Date: 2026-10-29 00:30:00
Cisco has released research showing that many organisations in Asia Pacific, Japan and China lack confidence in dealing with compromised AI agents. In Singapore, confidence is even lower than the regional average.
Its Relentless Defence Report found that only 52% of organisations across Asia Pacific, Japan and China were confident in detecting and responding to a compromised AI agent. In Singapore, the figure was 38%.
The findings come as cyber incidents remain widespread. Across Asia Pacific, Japan and China, 91% of organisations suffered a material, business-disrupting cyber incident in the past 12 months, compared with 89% in Singapore. More than one in three of those incidents in the wider region involved an AI-enhanced attack, while in Singapore the share was more than two in five.
Operational gaps
The report argues that the main constraint on cyber defence is organisational rather than technical. Around six in 10 practitioners globally who said they were…