respondents are business and IT decision-makers involved in shaping their organizations’ cybersecurity strategies
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Direct: Financial losses associated with a cybersecurity incident – this includes loss of productivity, fines, remediation cost etc.
Indirect: The opportunity cost to the organization such as customer churn due to reputation loss.
Induced: The impact of cyber breach to the broader ecosystem and economy, such as the decrease in consumer and enterprise spending.
Figures are based on a survey that involved 1,300 business and IT decision makers ranging from mid-sized organizations (250 to 499 employees) to large-sized organizations (more than 500 employees) in 13 economies: Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
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Average economic loss through cyber attacks APAC 2017, by type of loss
The statistic shows the average economic loss through cyber attacks in the Asia Pacific region in 2017, broken down by type of loss. In that year, the average loss for large-sized companies amounted to approximately ** million U.S. dollars in total, from which **** million U.S. dollars were induced losses, *** million U.S. dollars were indirect losses and *** million U.S. dollars were direct losses.
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