Executive summary Public sector organizations across Asia are accelerating digital transformation and expanding their reliance on cloud services, APIs, and interconnected digital infrastructure. This shift has dramatically increased cyber risk, with the region experiencing tens of billions of web application and API attacks, alongside trillions of Layer 7 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in recent years. AI-enabled attacks, software supply chain dependencies, and geopolitical cyber activity are converging to create persistent, systemic threats that traditional perimeter defenses can no longer contain. As a result, cybersecurity strategies are shifting away from absolute prevention toward resilience, continuity, containment, and operational stability during active attacks. Asia’s public sector can strengthen cyber resilience through modern architectures, collaboration, and adaptive security models.…