Fortinet's 2025 IDC survey reveals that over half (56%) of organisations across Singapore have encountered AI-powered cyber threats in the past year, with 52% reporting a 2X increase and 42% reporting a 3X rise in threat volume.
On the other hand, it's reassuring to note that over 80% of organisations across Singapore are proactively incorporating AI into their security strategies. This includes automated response, predictive threat modelling, AI-driven incident response, AI-powered threat intelligence, and behavioural analytics.
Organisations are also deploying GenAI in tasks such as running playbooks, updating rules and policies, social engineering detection, writing detection rules, and guided investigations.
Jess Ng, country head, Singapore and Brunei, said: "CISOs across Singapore are entering a more advanced phase of cybersecurity planning—one where AI is not just augmenting defences but influencing how organisations structure teams, allocate budgets, and prioritise threats."
AI in security
A study of 550 IT and security leaders across 11 Asia-Pacific markets found that organisations in Singapore are building their cybersecurity teams around AI capabilities. The top five cybersecurity roles identified include security data scientists, threat intelligence analysts, AI security engineers, AI security researchers, and AI-specific incident response professionals.
Organisations are no longer experimenting with AI; they are embedding it across threat detection, incident response, and team design. This signals a new era of security operations that is smarter, faster, and more adaptive to the evolving risk landscape," Simon Piff, Research vice president, IDC Asia-Pacific, said.
